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Óscar Arias

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Óscar Arias Sánchez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈoskaɾ ˈaɾjas]; born 13 September 1940 in Heredia, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010. Arias was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his proposal of a negotiated solution to the Central American crisis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Óscar Arias has received more than 418,752 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Óscar Arias is the 2,652nd most popular politician (up from 2,671st in 2019), the most popular biography from Costa Rica and the most popular Costa Rican Politician.

Oscar Arias is a Costa Rican politician who served as president of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars in Central America.

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  • 68.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Óscar Arias ranks 2,652 out of 19,576. Before him are Juvénal Habyarimana, Orodes II, Naram-Sin of Akkad, Giuseppe Guarneri, Zhang Zuolin, and Renée of France. After him are Yelü Dashi, Mark Rutte, Cola di Rienzo, Blanche I of Navarre, Teos of Egypt, and Kavad II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Óscar Arias ranks 59. Before him are Eduardo Galeano, James Caan, Tarō Asō, Shahnaz Pahlavi, Nancy Sinatra, and Cliff Richard. After him are Jan Jongbloed, Thomas Harris, George A. Romero, James Cromwell, Joachim Frank, and Astrud Gilberto.

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In Costa Rica

Among people born in Costa Rica, Óscar Arias ranks 1 out of 134. After him are Chavela Vargas (1919), Keylor Navas (1986), Felicia Montealegre Bernstein (1922), Laura Chinchilla (1959), Christiana Figueres (1956), Abel Pacheco (1933), Adolfo Díaz (1875), Luis Guillermo Solís (1958), Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Giannina Facio (1955), and Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900).

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Among POLITICIANS In Costa Rica

Among politicians born in Costa Rica, Óscar Arias ranks 1. After him are Laura Chinchilla (1959), Abel Pacheco (1933), Adolfo Díaz (1875), Luis Guillermo Solís (1958), Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900), Rodrigo Carazo Odio (1926), José María Castro Madriz (1818), Otilio Ulate Blanco (1891), Federico Tinoco Granados (1868), and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (1940).

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