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Sixto Durán Ballén

1921 - 2016

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Sixto Alfonso Durán-Ballén Cordovez (14 July 1921 – 15 November 2016) was an Ecuadorian political figure and architect who served as the 37th president of Ecuador from 1992 to 1996. He previously served as Mayor of Quito between 1970 and 1978. In 1951, he co-founded a political party, the Social Christian Party. In 1991, he left the Social Christian Party and formed a new conservative group, the Republican Union Party (PUR), before running for president for the third time in 1992 where he was elected president. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sixto Durán Ballén is the 238th most popular architect (up from 275th in 2019), the 3,500th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,603rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Sixto Durán Ballén ranks 238 out of 518. Before him are Carl Ritter von Ghega, Callinicus of Heliopolis, Hermann Tilke, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Giuseppe Terragni, and Nicodemus Tessin the Elder. After him are Pirro Ligorio, Henri Dupuy de Lôme, Konstantin Melnikov, Henri Labrouste, Joseph Paxton, and Baysunghur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Sixto Durán Ballén ranks 153. Before him are Daniel Gélin, Alphonse Massamba-Débat, Manitas de Plata, Louis Lachenal, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and Malcolm Arnold. After him are Alex Haley, Esther Williams, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Deanna Durbin, Eugenio Coșeriu, and Georges Wilson. Among people deceased in 2016, Sixto Durán Ballén ranks 175. Before him are Akhtar Mansour, Qahhor Mahkamov, Curtis Hanson, Trifon Ivanov, Black, and Arnold Wesker. After him are Dragan Nikolić, Götz George, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Bill Nunn, Rudi Altig, and Javier Echevarría Rodríguez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sixto Durán Ballén ranks 3,500 out of 20,380. Before him are A.J. Styles (1977), Diana Nyad (1949), Paul Michael Glaser (1943), Barry Sullivan (1912), Scott Brown (1959), and Robert Conrad (1935). After him are Harold E. Varmus (1939), David Doyle (1929), Madeleine Astor (1893), Chuck Schumer (1950), William Wakefield Baum (1926), and Theodore Sturgeon (1918).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Sixto Durán Ballén ranks 13. Before him are Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Peter Eisenman (1932), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), Charles Eames (1907), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), and Adrian Smith (1944). After him are Gordon Bunshaft (1909), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), Cedric Gibbons (1893), Steven Holl (1947), Thom Mayne (1944), and Michael Graves (1934).

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