The Most Famous

POLITICIANS from Greenland

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This page contains a list of the greatest Politicians. The pantheon dataset contains 19,576 Politicians, 6 of which were born in Greenland. This makes Greenland the birth place of the 177th most number of Politicians behind Hong Kong, and Papua New Guinea.

Top 9

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Politicians of all time. This list of famous Politicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Hans Enoksen (b. 1956)

With an HPI of 50.00, Hans Enoksen is the most famous Politician.  His biography has been translated into 30 different languages on wikipedia.

Hans Enoksen (born 7 August 1956) is a Greenlandic politician who served as the third prime minister of Greenland from 2002 to 2009. A Greenlandic monoglot, he has been a member of the Parliament of Greenland since 1995. He became Minister for Fisheries, Hunting and Settlements and chairman of the political party Siumut in 2001. He was elected prime minister on 14 December 2002, his party winning a mere 28%, a 7% drop from the previous election in 1999, but still enough to win. After his election he began an alliance with left wing party Inuit Ataqatigiit. The two parties began discussing how to change the agreement with Denmark and the U.S. about how much Greenland should receive in compensation for the U.S. airbase situated outside the town of Thule, in the north of the country. In the 2009 election, the IA beat him with 43% of the vote compared to Enoksen's party's 26%. After the 2009 defeat, Hans Enoksen retired as leader of Siumut. At the elections 2013 he was re-elected, but in January 2014 he was so unsatisfied with Siumut′s politics that he left the party and established a new political party, Partii Naleraq. The new party won 11.6% of the valid votes at the elections on 28 November 2014, and got three members elected for the Greenlandic parliament. Enoksen got 2,425 personal votes. He was Speaker of the Inatsisartut in 2018.

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2. Jonathan Motzfeldt (1938 - 2010)

With an HPI of 49.35, Jonathan Motzfeldt is the 2nd most famous Politician.  His biography has been translated into 26 different languages.

Jonathan Jakob Jørgen Otto Motzfeldt (25 September 1938 – 28 October 2010) was a Greenlandic priest and politician. He is considered one of the leading figures in the establishment of Greenland Home Rule. Jonathan Motzfeldt was the first prime minister of Greenland. He was Greenland's prime minister from 1979 until 1991 and again from 1997 until 2002. He was Greenland's longest serving prime minister and won the most elections of any prime minister of Greenland. He is considered a centre-left politician and Greenland became a recognized country during his tenure.

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3. Kim Kielsen (b. 1966)

With an HPI of 46.62, Kim Kielsen is the 3rd most famous Politician.  His biography has been translated into 35 different languages.

Kim Kielsen (born 30 November 1966) is a Greenlandic politician, who served as leader of the Siumut party and sixth prime minister of Greenland between 2014 and 2021.

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4. Kuupik Kleist (b. 1958)

With an HPI of 45.54, Kuupik Kleist is the 4th most famous Politician.  His biography has been translated into 34 different languages.

Jakob Edvard Kuupik Kleist (born 31 March 1958) is a Greenlandic politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Greenland between 2009 and 2013. A member of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party, he was the first prime minister not affiliated with Siumut. Since 2018, he has served as the first chairman of the Arctic Indigenous Film Fund.

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5. Thue Christiansen (1940 - 2022)

With an HPI of 45.50, Thue Christiansen is the 5th most famous Politician.  His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.

Thue Christiansen (25 February 1940 – 26 June 2022) was a Greenlandic teacher, visual artist, and politician. Christiansen is best known as the designer of the current flag of Greenland, which was adopted on 21 June 1985. A trained teacher, Christiansen was elected to the Inatsisartut for Siumut in 1979 when Greenland was granted home rule. He was the Greenlandic Minister of Culture and Education from 1979 until 1983. Christiansen died on 26 June 2022, at his home in Hals, Denmark. He was 82.

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6. Lars-Emil Johansen (b. 1946)

With an HPI of 44.09, Lars-Emil Johansen is the 6th most famous Politician.  His biography has been translated into 26 different languages.

Lars-Emil Johansen (born 24 September 1946) is a Greenlandic politician who served as the second prime minister of Greenland from 1991 to 1997, and Speaker of the Inatsisartut from 2013 to 2018. Johansen was chairman of the political party Siumut (Forward) between 1987 and 1997, seated in the Landsting from its creation in 1979. Prior to the creation of the Landsting, he represented Greenland in the Parliament of Denmark from 1973, a position he regained in 2001 and held until 2011. He was also President of the West Nordic Council from 2015 to 2016.

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7. Aleqa Hammond (b. 1965)

With an HPI of 43.91, Aleqa Hammond is the 7th most famous Politician.  Her biography has been translated into 29 different languages.

Aleqa Hammond (born 23 September 1965) is a Greenlandic politician and former member of the Danish Folketing (parliament). Formerly the leader of the Siumut party, she became Greenland's first female prime minister after her party emerged as the largest parliamentary faction in the 2013 elections. In 2014 she stepped down as prime minister and leader of Siumut, following a case of misuse of public funds. She was expelled from Siumut on 23 August 2016 after yet another case of misuse of public funds and became an independent. On 31 March 2018 she announced that she would be running in the 2018 Greenlandic parliamentary election for the Siumut breakaway Nunatta Qitornai.

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8. Múte Bourup Egede (b. 1987)

With an HPI of 34.02, Múte Bourup Egede is the 8th most famous Politician.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Múte Inequnaaluk Bourup Egede (Greenlandic pronunciation: [mut͡sːi inɜquˈnaːluk ˈpou̯ʁɔp ˈeːəðə]; born 11 March 1987) is a Greenlandic politician serving as the seventh prime minister of Greenland, a position he has held since April 2021. He has served as a member of the Inatsisartut, the parliament of Greenland, since 2015, and furthermore as chairman of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party since 2018.

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9. Sara Olsvig (b. 1978)

With an HPI of 27.80, Sara Olsvig is the 9th most famous Politician.  Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Sara Olsvig (born 26 September 1978) is a Greenlandic politician and former leader (2014–2018) of the Inuit Ataqatigiit political party. She occupied one of Greenland's two seats in the Danish Folketing, 15 September 2011 – 15 September 2014. As of 2022, she is chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council.

People

Pantheon has 9 people classified as politicians born between 1938 and 1987. Of these 9, 7 (77.78%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living politicians include Hans Enoksen, Kim Kielsen, and Kuupik Kleist. The most famous deceased politicians include Jonathan Motzfeldt, and Thue Christiansen. As of April 2024, 3 new politicians have been added to Pantheon including Thue Christiansen, Múte Bourup Egede, and Sara Olsvig.

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