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Abba Eban

1915 - 2002

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Abba Solomon Meir Eban ( ; Hebrew: אבא שלמה אבן [ˈ(ʔ)aba ˈ(ʔ)even]; born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002) was a South African-born Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages. During his career, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. He was the second ambassador to the United States and the first Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abba Eban has received more than 567,530 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Abba Eban is the 5,614th most popular politician (up from 5,767th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from South Africa and the 11th most popular South African Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abba Eban ranks 5,614 out of 19,576. Before him are John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg, Himiltrude, As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, Mathilde Kschessinska, Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria, and Narai. After him are Barthélemy Boganda, Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Viktor Brack, Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Philip I Philadelphus, and Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Abba Eban ranks 60. Before him are Miroslav Filipović, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Branko Ćopić, Santiago Carrillo, and Henry Taube. After him are Gyula Zsengellér, Alan Watts, W. Arthur Lewis, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Konstantin Simonov, and Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.. Among people deceased in 2002, Abba Eban ranks 63. Before him are Hugo Banzer, Agatha Barbara, John Frankenheimer, Joe Strummer, Chico Xavier, and Shigeo Sugimoto. After him are Erwin Chargaff, Joaquín Balaguer, Cyrus Vance, Roberto Matta, Infanta Beatriz of Spain, and Peggy Lee.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Abba Eban ranks 31 out of 454. Before him are Glynis Johns (1923), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), D. F. Malan (1874), Basil Rathbone (1892), Seymour Papert (1928), and Jan Smuts (1870). After him are Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), Michael Levitt (1947), Peter Abrahams (1919), Arnold Vosloo (1962), André Brink (1935), and Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Africa

Among politicians born in South Africa, Abba Eban ranks 11. Before him are Thabo Mbeki (1942), Paul Kruger (1825), P. W. Botha (1916), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), D. F. Malan (1874), and Jan Smuts (1870). After him are Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826), Andries Pretorius (1798), Louis Botha (1862), C. R. Swart (1894), and John Vorster (1915).

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