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Vicente Fox

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Vicente Fox Quesada (Latin American Spanish: [biˈsente ˈfoks keˈsaða]; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. After campaigning as a right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the National Action Party (PAN) ticket in the 2000 election. He became the first president not from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1929, and the first elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1911. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vicente Fox has received more than 2,835,237 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Vicente Fox is the 3,159th most popular politician (down from 2,708th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 25th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Mexican Politician.

Vicente Fox is most famous for being the first president of Mexico who was not a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

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  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vicente Fox ranks 3,159 out of 19,576. Before him are Roman the Great, Zuzana Čaputová, Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans, Marcomer, Postumus, and Amalie Auguste of Bavaria. After him are Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach, Richard Baer, Gunthamund, Agnes of Poitou, and Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Vicente Fox ranks 75. Before him are Tony Buzan, René Angélil, Carlos Reutemann, Gilberto Gil, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, and Emmerson Mnangagwa. After him are Maurizio Pollini, Muhammadu Buhari, Junichiro Koizumi, Peter Greenaway, Hissène Habré, and Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Vicente Fox ranks 26 out of 729. Before him are Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (1946), Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (1957), Moctezuma I (1398), Francisco I. Madero (1873), David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896), and Hugo Sánchez (1958). After him are Lázaro Cárdenas (1895), Cantinflas (1911), Guillermo del Toro (1964), Álvaro Obregón (1880), Alejandro González Iñárritu (1963), and Thomas Mayne Reid (1818).

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Among POLITICIANS In Mexico

Among politicians born in Mexico, Vicente Fox ranks 11. Before him are Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794), Agustín de Iturbide (1783), Andrés Manuel López Obrador (1953), La Malinche (1502), Moctezuma I (1398), and Francisco I. Madero (1873). After him are Lázaro Cárdenas (1895), Álvaro Obregón (1880), Plutarco Elías Calles (1877), Venustiano Carranza (1859), Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal (603), and Victoriano Huerta (1850).

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