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Yanis Varoufakis

1961 - Today

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Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis (Greek: Ιωάννης Γεωργίου "Γιάνης" Βαρουφάκης, romanized: Ioánnis Georgíou "Giánis" Varoufákis, pronounced [ˈʝaniz varuˈfacis]; born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist and politician. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016. Previously, he was a member of Syriza and was Greece's Minister of Finance between January 2015 and July 2015, negotiating on behalf of the Greek government during the 2009-2018 Greek government-debt crisis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yanis Varoufakis has received more than 2,907,575 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Yanis Varoufakis is the 11,380th most popular politician (down from 7,682nd in 2019), the 574th most popular biography from Greece (down from 412th in 2019) and the 244th most popular Greek Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yanis Varoufakis ranks 11,380 out of 19,576. Before him are Çandarlızade Ali Pasha, Horace Greeley, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Eleazar López Contreras, Pei Xiu, and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. After him are Pandulf Ironhead, Reginar I Longneck, Stefan Konstantin, Phetsarath Ratanavongsa, Ameny Qemau, and George Andrew Reisner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Yanis Varoufakis ranks 133. Before him are Greg LeMond, Jimmy Somerville, Sigrid Kaag, Mokgweetsi Masisi, Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, and Juha Sipilä. After him are Jackie Earle Haley, Souleymane Sané, Eugenio Derbez, Alexander Payne, Vasily Ignatenko, and Alemão.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Yanis Varoufakis ranks 574 out of 1,024. Before him are Archelaus of Sparta (-790), Geminus (null), Eugenios Voulgaris (1716), Nikos Beloyannis (1915), Faustus Cornelius Sulla (-88), and Wehib Pasha (1877). After him are Petrobey Mavromichalis (1765), Cineas (-400), Antonios Nikopolidis (1971), Ioannis Alevras (1912), Argaeus II of Macedon (-500), and Philothei of Athens (1522).

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Among POLITICIANS In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Yanis Varoufakis ranks 244. Before him are Adamantios Androutsopoulos (1919), Spyros Markezinis (1909), Areus II (-262), Archelaus of Sparta (-790), Nikos Beloyannis (1915), and Faustus Cornelius Sulla (-88). After him are Petrobey Mavromichalis (1765), Ioannis Alevras (1912), Argaeus II of Macedon (-500), Konstantinos Demertzis (1876), Polydorus of Sparta (-741), and Petros Protopapadakis (1854).

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