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Laura Chinchilla

1959 - Today

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Laura Chinchilla Miranda (Spanish: [ˈlawɾa tʃinˈtʃiʝa miˈɾanda]; born 28 March 1959) is a Costa Rican political scientist and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. She was one of Óscar Arias Sánchez's two Vice-Presidents and his administration's Minister of Justice. She was the governing PLN candidate for president in the 2010 general election, where she won with 46.76% of the vote on 7 February. She was the eighth woman president of a Latin American country and the first and so far only woman to become President of Costa Rica. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Laura Chinchilla is the 7,669th most popular politician (up from 8,387th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Costa Rica (up from 5th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Costa Rican Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Laura Chinchilla ranks 7,669 out of 19,576. Before her are Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, Mawiyya, Alexander Lebed, and Ali Kafi. After her are Zhuge Dan, Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria, John II of Cyprus, Paul Poupard, Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, and Simeon Uroš.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Laura Chinchilla ranks 94. Before her are Chan Santokhi, Elizabeth Peña, Loretta Lynch, Takaaki Kajita, Nimr al-Nimr, and Rupert Everett. After her are Marwan Barghouti, Clancy Brown, Guy Parmelin, James Wong, Andrea de Cesaris, and Andrey Belousov.

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In Costa Rica

Among people born in Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla ranks 3 out of 134. Before her are Óscar Arias (1940), and Chavela Vargas (1919). After her are Felicia Montealegre Bernstein (1922), Keylor Navas (1986), Abel Pacheco (1933), Luis Guillermo Solís (1958), Franklin Chang Díaz (1950), Christiana Figueres (1956), Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Juan Mora Fernández (1784), and Harry Shum Jr. (1982).

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Among POLITICIANS In Costa Rica

Among politicians born in Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla ranks 2. Before her are Óscar Arias (1940). After her are Abel Pacheco (1933), Luis Guillermo Solís (1958), Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Juan Mora Fernández (1784), José María Castro Madriz (1818), Rodrigo Carazo Odio (1926), Federico Tinoco Granados (1868), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (1940), Mario Echandi Jiménez (1915), and Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900).

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