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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 2,720,632 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Yanis Varoufakis is the 7,704th most popular politician (down from 6,231st in 2019), the 412th most popular biography from Greece (down from 370th in 2019) and the 178th most popular Greek Politician.

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  • 54.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yanis Varoufakis ranks 7,704 out of 15,577. Before him are Adib Shishakli, Luis Somoza Debayle, Yegor Ligachyov, Odo II, Duke of Burgundy, Abd al-Rahman V, and Stanisław Koniecpolski. After him are He Dan Jia, Cetshwayo kaMpande, Philippe, Duke of Vendôme, Andries Pretorius, Ilija Garašanin, and Zu Yi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Yanis Varoufakis ranks 70. Before him are Billy Ray Cyrus, Frans Timmermans, Aziz Akhannouch, Danny Blind, Ignazio Cassis, and Joan Chen. After him are David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, Daniele Massaro, Heather Locklear, Alexandre Desplat, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Lea Thompson.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Yanis Varoufakis ranks 412 out of 936. Before him are Agoracritus (-500), Lais of Corinth (-400), Polykleitos the Younger (-400), Phylarchus (-255), Phoebe (50), and Callimachus (-500). After him are Joseph II of Constantinople (1360), Erinna (-400), Hermarchus (-325), Xanthippus of Carthage (-300), Asclepigenia (400), and Manuel Kantakouzenos (1326).

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Among POLITICIANS In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Yanis Varoufakis ranks 178. Before him are Antalcidas (-500), Michail Stasinopoulos (1903), Dorieus (-600), Costas Simitis (1936), Manolis Glezos (1922), and Lais of Corinth (-400). After him are Manuel Kantakouzenos (1326), Antonis Samaras (1951), Dinarchus (-361), Teucer (null), Alexandros Zaimis (1855), and Nikolaos Plastiras (1883).

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