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Urho Kekkonen

1900 - 1986

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Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986), often referred to by his initials UKK, was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland from 1956 to 1982. He also served as prime minister (1950–1953, 1954–1956), and held various other cabinet positions. He was the third and most recent president from the Agrarian League/Centre Party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Urho Kekkonen has received more than 854,218 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Urho Kekkonen is the 1,373rd most popular politician (up from 1,725th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Finland (up from 12th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Finnish Politician.

Urho Kekkonen was the president of Finland from 1956 to 1982. He is most famous for being the first Finnish president to visit the Soviet Union.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Urho Kekkonen ranks 1,373 out of 15,577. Before him are Johan de Witt, Yang Guifei, Mohammed Nadir Shah, Takeda Shingen, Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, and George Tupou V. After him are Lothair of France, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Alfonso V of Aragon, Anastasios II, and Cyrus the Younger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Urho Kekkonen ranks 21. Before him are Margaret Mitchell, Adolf Dassler, Jacques Prévert, Dennis Gabor, Charles Francis Richter, and Sándor Márai. After him are Hans Fritzsche, Giorgos Seferis, Hans Adolf Krebs, Kurt Weill, Eyvind Johnson, and Jan Oort. Among people deceased in 1986, Urho Kekkonen ranks 16. Before him are Mircea Eliade, Tenzing Norgay, Joseph Beuys, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jean Genet, and Harold Macmillan. After him are Cliff Burton, Celâl Bayar, Henry Moore, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Alva Myrdal, and Fritz Albert Lipmann.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Urho Kekkonen ranks 9 out of 642. Before him are Simo Häyhä (1905), Tove Jansson (1914), Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867), Paavo Nurmi (1897), Sauli Niinistö (1948), and Tarja Halonen (1943). After him are Mika Waltari (1908), Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870), Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832), Risto Ryti (1889), and Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (1917).

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Among POLITICIANS In Finland

Among politicians born in Finland, Urho Kekkonen ranks 4. Before him are Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867), Sauli Niinistö (1948), and Tarja Halonen (1943). After him are Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870), Risto Ryti (1889), Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (1917), Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861), Otto Wille Kuusinen (1881), Mauno Koivisto (1923), Kyösti Kallio (1873), and Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (1865).

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