POLITICIAN

Thorbjörn Fälldin

1926 - 2016

Photo of Thorbjörn Fälldin

Icon of person Thorbjörn Fälldin

Nils Olof Thorbjörn Fälldin (24 April 1926 – 23 July 2016) was a Swedish politician and farmer who served as the prime minister of Sweden from 1976 to 1978 and again from 1979 to 1982, heading three non-consecutive cabinets. He was the leader of the Swedish Centre Party from 1971 to 1985. On his first appointment in 1976, he was the first non-Social Democrat Prime Minister for 40 years and the first since the 1930s not to have worked as a professional politician since his teens. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thorbjörn Fälldin has received more than 162,674 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Thorbjörn Fälldin is the 7,246th most popular politician (down from 6,813th in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 271st in 2019) and the 81st most popular Swedish Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Thorbjörn Fälldin ranks 7,246 out of 19,576Before him are Shintaro Ishihara, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Bethuel, Pyeongwon of Goguryeo, Aeacides of Epirus, and Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan. After him are Azzedine Alaïa, Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Sunjong of Goryeo, Edmund Veesenmayer, Bess Truman, and Ma'ruf Amin.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Thorbjörn Fälldin ranks 131Before him are Teddy Scholten, Salah Jadid, Valerio Zurlini, Peter Graves, Nina Kulagina, and Per Wahlöö. After him are Gordon Scott, Amadeo Carrizo, Erich Juskowiak, Bal Thackeray, Sergio Pininfarina, and Karel Reisz. Among people deceased in 2016, Thorbjörn Fälldin ranks 119Before him are Michel Rocard, Victor Stănculescu, Dragan Nikolić, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Guy Hamilton, and António Mascarenhas Monteiro. After him are Erich Rudorffer, Héctor Babenco, Alexandre Astruc, Nimr al-Nimr, Jayalalithaa, and Péter Esterházy.

Others Born in 1926

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 2016

Go to all Rankings

In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Thorbjörn Fälldin ranks 279 out of 1,879Before him are Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (1982), Bruno Liljefors (1860), Börje Salming (1951), Stig Blomqvist (1946), Helge von Koch (1870), and Per Wahlöö (1926). After him are Oskar Klein (1894), Christopher Polhem (1661), Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807), Mikael Persbrandt (1963), Stig Dagerman (1923), and Princess Eugénie of Sweden (1830).

Among POLITICIANS In Sweden

Among politicians born in Sweden, Thorbjörn Fälldin ranks 81Before him are Per Brahe the Younger (1602), Göran Persson (1949), Blot-Sweyn (1001), Johann Patkul (1660), Carl Adolph Agardh (1785), and Börje Salming (1951). After him are Princess Eugénie of Sweden (1830), John, Duke of Östergötland (1589), Anna Vasa of Sweden (1568), Olof Björnsson (950), Arvid Lindman (1862), and Magdalena Andersson (1967).