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Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga

1937 - Today

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Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (née Vīķe; born 1 December 1937) is a Latvian politician who served as the sixth president of Latvia from 1999 to 2007. She is the first and to date only woman to hold the post and the most recent to be re-elected for a second term. Freiberga is a professor and interdisciplinary scholar, having published eleven books and numerous articles, essays and book chapters in addition to her extensive speaking engagements. As President of the Republic of Latvia 1999–2007, she was instrumental in achieving membership in the European Union and NATO for her country. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga is the 2,620th most popular politician (up from 2,958th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Politician.

Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga is a Latvian politician and the first woman to be elected president of Latvia. She served as president from 1999 to 2007.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga ranks 2,620 out of 19,576. Before her are Phalaris, Yazid II, Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Vasily I of Moscow, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Louise of Savoy. After her are Jean Sylvain Bailly, William IV, Prince of Orange, Emperor Nakamikado, Alp-Tegin, Eric V of Denmark, and Choe Yong-gon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga ranks 35. Before her are Mengistu Haile Mariam, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, Rifaat al-Assad, Alain Badiou, Colin Renfrew, and Bruce McLaren. After her are Robert Huber, Philip Glass, Gordon Banks, Jared Diamond, David Hockney, and Bettina Heinen-Ayech.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga ranks 8 out of 323. Before her are Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), Mikhail Tal (1936), Mark Rothko (1903), Isaiah Berlin (1909), Mariss Jansons (1943), and Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948). After her are Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717), Aron Nimzowitsch (1886), Gidon Kremer (1947), and Jacob Kettler (1610).

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Among POLITICIANS In Latvia

Among politicians born in Latvia, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga ranks 1. After her are Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717), Jacob Kettler (1610), Andris Bērziņš (1944), Peter von Biron (1724), Ernst Johann von Biron (1690), Egils Levits (1955), Valdis Zatlers (1955), Guntis Ulmanis (1939), Jānis Čakste (1859), and Pauline Therese of Württemberg (1800).

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