The Most Famous
MILITARY PERSONNELS from Burkina Faso
This page contains a list of the greatest Burkinabe Military Personnels. The pantheon dataset contains 2,058 Military Personnels, 2 of which were born in Burkina Faso. This makes Burkina Faso the birth place of the 78th most number of Military Personnels behind Colombia, and Afghanistan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Burkinabe Military Personnels of all time. This list of famous Burkinabe Military Personnels is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba (b. 1981)
With an HPI of 55.52, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is the most famous Burkinabe Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba (French: [pɔl ɑ̃ʁi sɑ̃daɔɡɔ damiba]; born January 1981) is a Burkinabé military officer who served as interim president of Burkina Faso from 31 January 2022 to 30 September 2022, when he was removed in a coup d'état by his own military colleague Ibrahim Traoré. Damiba had come to power just eight months earlier, on 24 January 2022, when he removed president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré in a coup.
2. Ibrahim Traoré (b. 1988)
With an HPI of 53.64, Ibrahim Traoré is the 2nd most famous Burkinabe Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 34 different languages.
Ibrahim Traoré (born 14 March 1988) is a Burkinabé military officer who has been the interim leader of Burkina Faso since the September 2022 coup d'état that ousted interim president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba. At age 36, Traoré is currently the second youngest serving state leader in the world after Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir, and the youngest serving president.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Burkinabe military personnels born between 1981 and 1988. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Burkinabe military personnels include Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, and Ibrahim Traoré. As of April 2024, 2 new Burkinabe military personnels have been added to Pantheon including Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, and Ibrahim Traoré.
