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Álvaro del Portillo

1914 - 1994

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Álvaro del Portillo y Diez de Sollano (11 March 1914 – 23 March 1994) was a Spanish engineer and Roman Catholic bishop. He served as the prelate of Opus Dei between 1982 and 1994 as the successor to Josemaría Escrivá. Church leaders Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Carlo Caffarra have praised Portillo as a faithful servant of God. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Álvaro del Portillo has received more than 88,733 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Álvaro del Portillo is the 117th most popular engineer (down from 109th in 2019), the 679th most popular biography from Spain (down from 623rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Spanish Engineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Álvaro del Portillo ranks 117 out of 323. Before him are Viktor Kaplan, Pierre Clostermann, Alexander Cunningham, François Laurent d'Arlandes, Alexander Lodygin, and Robert Stephenson. After him are Hertha Ayrton, John A. Roebling, Flaminio Bertoni, Alexandre Darracq, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, and Borys Paton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Álvaro del Portillo ranks 101. Before him are Erich Topp, Dürrüşehvar Sultan, Tito Okello, George Reeves, Ferenc Fricsay, and Kirill Kondrashin. After him are Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Vladimir Chelomey, Arthur Kennedy, Noor Inayat Khan, Lyman Spitzer, and Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven. Among people deceased in 1994, Álvaro del Portillo ranks 99. Before him are Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Jack Unterweger, Juan Carlos Onetti, Paisios of Mount Athos, Moana Pozzi, and Andrés Escobar. After him are Luis Ocaña, Baruch Goldstein, Branko Mikulić, Wilma Rudolph, Enrique Líster, and Max Morlock.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Álvaro del Portillo ranks 679 out of 2,932. Before him are Beatus of Liébana (730), Camarón de la Isla (1950), Ramón Sampedro (1943), Fernán González of Castile (910), Pedro de Toledo y Zúñiga (1484), and Nicolás de Ovando (1451). After him are Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga (1528), Muhammad V of Granada (1339), Jimena Díaz (1046), Mario Camus (1935), Adelardo Rodríguez (1939), and Pedro Alonso (1971).

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Among ENGINEERS In Spain

Among engineers born in Spain, Álvaro del Portillo ranks 3. Before him are José Echegaray (1832) and Ildefons Cerdà (1815). After him are Agustín de Betancourt (1758).

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