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José Mujica

1935 - 2025

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José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano (20 May 1935 – 13 May 2025) was a Uruguayan politician, revolutionary and farmer who served as the 40th president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former guerrilla with the Tupamaros, he was tortured and imprisoned for 14 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s. A member of the Broad Front coalition of left-wing parties, Mujica was the minister of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries from 2005 to 2008 and a senator afterwards. As the candidate of the Broad Front, he won the 2009 presidential election and took office as president on 1 March 2010. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. José Mujica is the 258th most popular politician (up from 458th in 2019), the most popular biography from Uruguay and the most popular Uruguayan Politician.

Mujica is most famous for being the president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. He is also known for being a former member of the Tupamaros, a left-wing guerrilla group that was active in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, José Mujica ranks 258 out of 19,576. Before him are Mustafa I, Barbara Bush, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I of Mexico, Alexander II of Russia, and Heraclius. After him are Septimius Severus, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Anastasius I Dicorus, Saparmurat Niyazov, Golda Meir, and Æthelwulf, King of Wessex.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, José Mujica ranks 6. Before him are Elvis Presley, Alain Delon, Salman of Saudi Arabia, Luciano Pavarotti, and 14th Dalai Lama. After him are Mahmoud Abbas, Hussein of Jordan, Woody Allen, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and Luis Suárez. Among people deceased in 2025, José Mujica ranks 3. Before him are Pope Francis, and David Lynch. After him are Gene Hackman, Mario Vargas Llosa, Marianne Faithfull, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Boris Spassky, Richard Chamberlain, Val Kilmer, Brian Wilson, and Sebastião Salgado.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, José Mujica ranks 1 out of 444. After him are Tabaré Vázquez (1940), Comte de Lautréamont (1846), José Leandro Andrade (1901), Luis Suárez (1987), Eduardo Galeano (1940), Alcides Ghiggia (1926), José Nasazzi (1901), Juan Alberto Schiaffino (1925), Héctor Scarone (1898), Óscar Tabárez (1947), and José Gervasio Artigas (1764).

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Among POLITICIANS In Uruguay

Among politicians born in Uruguay, José Mujica ranks 1. After him are Tabaré Vázquez (1940), José Gervasio Artigas (1764), Lucía Topolansky (1944), Julio María Sanguinetti (1936), Juan María Bordaberry (1928), Luis Alberto Lacalle (1941), Fructuoso Rivera (1784), Jorge Batlle (1927), Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925), Manuel Oribe (1792), and José Batlle y Ordóñez (1856).

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