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Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga

1937 - Today

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Vaira Vike-Freiberga (born 1 December 1937) is a Latvian politician who served as the sixth President of Latvia from 1999 to 2007. She is the first and to date only woman to hold the post. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga has received more than 246,853 page views. Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga is the 2,958th most popular politician (up from 3,026th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 11th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Latvian Politician.

Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga is a Latvian politician and the first woman to be elected president of Latvia. She served as president from 1999 to 2007.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga ranks 2,958 out of 19,576. Before her are Koca Sinan Pasha, Mauricio Macri, Joseph Wirth, Emperor Taizu of Jin, Lucilla, and Marcelo Caetano. After her are Philip II, Duke of Savoy, Emperor Yuan of Han, Bartolomeo Colleoni, Leopold I, Duke of Austria, Archduke Ernest of Austria, and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga ranks 45. Before her are Avram Hershko, Philip Glass, Juvénal Habyarimana, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Santer, and Colleen McCullough. After her are Angelo Badalamenti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Roger Zelazny, Robert Huber, Andrei Konchalovsky, and Thomas Pynchon.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga ranks 10 out of 323. Before her are Mikhail Tal (1936), Isaiah Berlin (1909), Mariss Jansons (1943), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), and Kārlis Ulmanis (1877). After her are Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717), Jacob Kettler (1610), Aron Nimzowitsch (1886), Gidon Kremer (1947), Peter von Biron (1724), and Ernst Johann von Biron (1690).

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Among POLITICIANS In Latvia

Among politicians born in Latvia, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga ranks 2. Before her are Kārlis Ulmanis (1877). After her are Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717), Jacob Kettler (1610), Peter von Biron (1724), Ernst Johann von Biron (1690), Andris Bērziņš (1944), Egils Levits (1955), Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650), Pauline Therese of Württemberg (1800), Frederick William, Duke of Courland (1692), and Jānis Čakste (1859).

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