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Edgars Rinkēvičs

1973 - Today

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Edgars Rinkēvičs (born 21 September 1973) is a Latvian public official and politician serving as the 11th and current president of Latvia since July 2023. He previously served as the minister of foreign affairs of Latvia from 2011 to 2023, and head of the Chancery of the President of Latvia as state secretary of the Ministry of Defence, as well as a deputy of the Saeima. Upon taking office as president, Rinkēvičs became the first openly gay head of state in a European Union country. Prior to becoming president, Rinkēvičs had represented Latvian Way, Reform Party, and the Unity party since May 2014. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edgars Rinkēvičs is the 10,466th most popular politician (down from 9,588th in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 63rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Latvian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edgars Rinkēvičs ranks 10,467 out of 19,576. Before him are Chremonides, Decentius, Xiao Jia, Dedumose I, Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau, Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken. After him are George McGovern, Elizabeth Warren, Adolf Wagner, Tommy Lapid, and Farrokhroo Parsa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Edgars Rinkēvičs ranks 70. Before him are Christian Cage, Neil Patrick Harris, Christian Panucci, Rufus Wainwright, James Foley, and Verka Serduchka. After him are Howie Dorough, Juliette Lewis, Savo Milošević, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Sami Hyypiä, and Haile Gebrselassie.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs ranks 74 out of 323. Before him are Karl Eichwald (1795), Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824), Mstislav Keldysh (1911), Valdis Dombrovskis (1971), Morris Halle (1923), and Vilis Lācis (1904). After him are Alexander Kovalevsky (1840), Vasiliy Ulrikh (1889), Ivars Godmanis (1951), Jānis K. Bērziņš (1889), Alexander von Keyserling (1815), and Vizma Belševica (1931).

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Among POLITICIANS In Latvia

Among politicians born in Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs ranks 25. Before him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Alberts Kviesis (1881), Ferdinand Kettler (1655), Evika Siliņa (1975), Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (1884), and Valdis Dombrovskis (1971). After him are Vasiliy Ulrikh (1889), Ivars Godmanis (1951), Jānis K. Bērziņš (1889), Jānis Rudzutaks (1887), Anatolijs Gorbunovs (1942), and Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics (1887).

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