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Yanis Varoufakis

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Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis (; born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist and politician. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016. Previously, he was a member of Syriza and was Greece's Minister of Finance between January 2015 and July 2015, negotiating on behalf of the Greek government during the 2009–2018 Greek government-debt crisis. Varoufakis was first elected as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament with Syriza, representing the Athens B constituency from January to September 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yanis Varoufakis is the 2,693rd most popular politician (up from 11,378th in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from Greece (up from 574th in 2019) and the 69th most popular Greek Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yanis Varoufakis ranks 2,693 out of 19,576. Before him are Yazdegerd I, Chang Myon, Myeongjong of Joseon, Viktor Zubkov, Julia Drusilla, and Nancy Pelosi. After him are François Darlan, Ladislaus of Naples, Cleomenes I, Quirinius, Karolos Papoulias, and Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Yanis Varoufakis ranks 16. Before him are Bidhya Devi Bhandari, George Clooney, Hibatullah Akhundzada, Eddie Murphy, António Costa, and Liam Cunningham. After him are Joko Widodo, Petr Pavel, Peter Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Enya, and Manu Chao.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Yanis Varoufakis ranks 182 out of 1,024. Before him are Porphyry of Gaza (347), Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark (1870), Chilon of Sparta (-600), Antigonus II Gonatas (-319), Odysseas Elytis (1911), and Leotychidas (-540). After him are Cleomenes I (-600), Karolos Papoulias (1929), Jerry Falwell (1933), Xanthippus (-590), Konstantinos Karamanlis (1907), and Gorgo, Queen of Sparta (-506).

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Among POLITICIANS In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Yanis Varoufakis ranks 69. Before him are Sophia Palaiologina (1455), Gülnuş Sultan (1642), Caranus of Macedon (-900), Aeschines (-389), Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark (1870), and Antigonus II Gonatas (-319). After him are Cleomenes I (-600), Karolos Papoulias (1929), Xanthippus (-590), Konstantinos Karamanlis (1907), Thaïs (-400), and Herodes Atticus (101).

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