The Most Famous
BUSINESSPEOPLE from Senegal
This page contains a list of the greatest Senegalese Businesspeople. The pantheon dataset contains 847 Businesspeople, 1 of which were born in Senegal. This makes Senegal the birth place of the 47th most number of Businesspeople behind Bangladesh, and North Korea.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Senegalese Businesspeople of all time. This list of famous Senegalese Businesspeople is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Lamine Diack (1933 - 2021)
With an HPI of 52.70, Lamine Diack is the most famous Senegalese Businessperson. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
Lamine Diack (7 June 1933 – 3 December 2021) was a Senegalese businessman, sports administrator, and athlete. He was president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) from 1999 to 2015. He was the subject of numerous investigations into corruption during his tenure as president. He was also a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1999 to 2013, then an honorary member from 2014 to 2015, and the chairman of the National Water Company "Société Nationale des Eaux" of Senegal (SONES) from 1995 to 2001. He had been under house arrest since November 2015, and his trial in France started in June 2020. On 16 September 2020, Diack, his son Papa Massata Diack, the head of the IAAF anti-doping department Gabriel Dolle, and other persons were given prison sentences for their part in a coverup of doping in Russia.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Senegalese businesspeople born between 1933 and 1933. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Senegalese businesspeople include Lamine Diack.
