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Václav Klaus

1941 - Today

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Václav Klaus (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslaf ˈklaus]; born 19 June 1941) is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993, he served as the second and last prime minister of the Czech Republic while it was a federal subject of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, and then as the first prime minister of the newly independent Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998. During the Communist era, Klaus worked as a bank clerk and forecaster. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Václav Klaus has received more than 540,869 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 73 in 2019). Václav Klaus is the 1,434th most popular politician (up from 1,488th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 44th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Czech Politician.

Václav Klaus is most famous for being the first president of the Czech Republic.

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  • 540k

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 72

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Václav Klaus ranks 1,434 out of 15,577. Before him are Manuel Azaña, Sebastián Piñera, Omar al-Bashir, Viktor Zubkov, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Lucius Caesar. After him are Christian VI of Denmark, Chilperic I, Thomas Sankara, Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, Walter Schellenberg, and Masinissa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Václav Klaus ranks 30. Before him are Franco Nero, Nona Gaprindashvili, Jon Lord, Julia Kristeva, Vivienne Westwood, and Viktor Zubkov. After him are Jon Brower Minnoch, Paul Simon, Fausto Cercignani, Flórián Albert, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, and Bernie Sanders.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Václav Klaus ranks 47 out of 973. Before him are Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), Madeleine Albright (1937), Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271), Gerty Cori (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), and Emil Hácha (1872). After him are Josef Masopust (1931), Bernard Bolzano (1781), Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (1940), Karel Gott (1939), Antonín Panenka (1948), and Milena Jesenská (1896).

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Among POLITICIANS In Czechia

Among politicians born in Czechia, Václav Klaus ranks 11. Before him are Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850), Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233), Klement Gottwald (1896), Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271), and Emil Hácha (1872). After him are Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (1940), Karl Renner (1870), Karl Hermann Frank (1898), Ludvík Svoboda (1895), Victor Lustig (1890), and George of Poděbrady (1420).

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