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Virgilio Barco Vargas

1921 - 1997

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Virgilio Barco Vargas (17 September 1921 – 20 May 1997) was a Colombian politician and civil engineer who served as the 27th President of Colombia serving from 7 August 1986 to 7 August 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Virgilio Barco Vargas has received more than 477,580 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Virgilio Barco Vargas is the 6,591st most popular politician (up from 6,701st in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Colombia and the 9th most popular Colombian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Virgilio Barco Vargas ranks 6,591 out of 19,576. Before him are Bakenranef, Sardanapalus, Pedubast I, Peter Krešimir IV of Croatia, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, and Oleksii Reznikov. After him are Guthrum, Marcus Manlius Capitolinus, Vittoria della Rovere, Cochise, Petro Doroshenko, and Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Virgilio Barco Vargas ranks 109. Before him are Mary Douglas, John Money, Nobuo Matsunaga, George Roy Hill, James Clavell, and Hannah Szenes. After him are Oskar Gröning, Meir Amit, Maurice Richard, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Betty Friedan, and Arno Babajanian. Among people deceased in 1997, Virgilio Barco Vargas ranks 84. Before him are Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Héctor Yazalde, Teiichi Matsumaru, Manfred von Ardenne, Stig Anderson, and Samuel Fuller. After him are Hastings Banda, François Furet, Kunihiko Kodaira, Giuseppe De Santis, Michael Hutchence, and Kang Song-san.

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In Colombia

Among people born in Colombia, Virgilio Barco Vargas ranks 21 out of 356. Before him are Gustavo Petro (1960), Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913), Rodrigo Lara (1946), John Leguizamo (1964), Luis Carlos Galán (1943), and Álvaro Uribe (1952). After him are James Rodríguez (1991), Íngrid Betancourt (1961), Andrés Escobar (1967), Belisario Betancur (1923), Francisco de Paula Santander (1792), and Ernesto Samper (1950).

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Among POLITICIANS In Colombia

Among politicians born in Colombia, Virgilio Barco Vargas ranks 9. Before him are Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela (1939), Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela (1943), Gustavo Petro (1960), Rodrigo Lara (1946), Luis Carlos Galán (1943), and Álvaro Uribe (1952). After him are Íngrid Betancourt (1961), Belisario Betancur (1923), Francisco de Paula Santander (1792), Ernesto Samper (1950), Manuel Marulanda (1930), and Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (1903).

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