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Juan Manuel Santos

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Juan Manuel Santos Calderón ([ˈxwam maˈnwel ˈsantos kaldeˈɾon]; born 10 August 1951) is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. An economist by training and a journalist by trade, Santos is a member of the wealthy and influential Santos family, who from 1913 to 2007 were the majority shareholders of El Tiempo, Colombia's newspaper of record. In 1991, Santos was appointed by President César Gaviria Trujillo as Colombia's first Minister of Foreign Trade. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Juan Manuel Santos is the 2,446th most popular politician (up from 2,586th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Colombia and the most popular Colombian Politician.

Juan Manuel Santos is the president of Colombia. He is most famous for negotiating with the FARC rebels to end the civil war in Colombia.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Juan Manuel Santos ranks 2,446 out of 19,576. Before him are Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, John of Saxony, Mithridates V of Pontus, Aeschines, and Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress. After him are David II of Scotland, Wilhelm Marx, Emperor Go-Momozono, Jiang Ziya, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Edwin of Northumbria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Juan Manuel Santos ranks 29. Before him are Glenn Hughes, Olivia Hussey, Akhmad Kadyrov, Michel Barnier, Bertie Ahern, and Paul Breitner. After him are Win Myint, Jill Biden, Aslan Maskhadov, Traian Băsescu, Dražen Dalipagić, and François Bayrou.

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In Colombia

Among people born in Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos ranks 6 out of 356. Before him are Gabriel García Márquez (1927), Pablo Escobar (1949), Shakira (1977), Fernando Botero (1932), and Griselda Blanco (1943). After him are Andrés Escobar (1967), César Gaviria (1947), René Higuita (1966), Carlos Valderrama (1961), Gustavo Petro (1960), and Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela (1943).

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Among POLITICIANS In Colombia

Among politicians born in Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos ranks 1. After him are César Gaviria (1947), Gustavo Petro (1960), Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela (1943), Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela (1939), Álvaro Uribe (1952), Luis Carlos Galán (1943), Francisco de Paula Santander (1792), Virgilio Barco Vargas (1921), Julio César Turbay Ayala (1916), Belisario Betancur (1923), and Ernesto Samper (1950).

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