POLITICIAN

Alexander Lukashenko

1954 - Today

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Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making him the current longest-serving head of state in Europe. Before embarking on his political career, Lukashenko worked as the director of a state farm (sovkhoz) and served in both the Soviet Border Troops and the Soviet Army. In 1990, Lukashenko was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Lukashenko has received more than 8,963,717 page views. His biography is available in 119 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 110 in 2019). Alexander Lukashenko is the 776th most popular politician (down from 716th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 5th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belarusian Politician.

Alexander Lukashenko is the president of Belarus. He is most famous for being the president of Belarus.

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  • 5.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexander Lukashenko ranks 776 out of 19,576Before him are Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Haile Selassie, John of Bohemia, and Michael VIII Palaiologos. After him are John I of France, Edmund Burke, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Gyula Andrássy, Islam Karimov, and Viktor Yushchenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Alexander Lukashenko ranks 9Before him are Jackie Chan, François Hollande, Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Hugo Chávez, and Shinzō Abe. After him are Viktor Yushchenko, Halimah Yacob, James Cameron, Sócrates, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and Emir Kusturica.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko ranks 8 out of 368Before him are Marc Chagall (1887), Lev Vygotsky (1896), Menachem Begin (1913), Chaim Weizmann (1874), Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), and Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746). After him are Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Simon Kuznets (1901), Chaim Soutine (1893), Meyer Lansky (1902), and Olga Korbut (1955).

Among POLITICIANS In Belarus

Among politicians born in Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko ranks 5Before him are Shimon Peres (1923), Menachem Begin (1913), Chaim Weizmann (1874), and Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877). After him are Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Zalman Shazar (1889), Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), Mstislav I of Kiev (1076), Isser Harel (1912), and Maria Kaczyńska (1942).