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Angela Merkel

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Angela Dorothea Merkel (German: [aŋˈɡeːla doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛʁkl̩] ; née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office. She previously served as Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 2000 to 2018. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Angela Merkel has received more than 21,668,910 page views. Her biography is available in 168 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 159 in 2019). Angela Merkel is the 107th most popular politician (down from 49th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Germany (down from 20th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Politician.

Angela Merkel is most famous for being the Chancellor of Germany. She is the first woman to hold this position and has been in office since 2005.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Angela Merkel ranks 107 out of 19,576Before her are Margaret Thatcher, Ivan the Terrible, Boris Yeltsin, Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Darius the Great, and Heinrich Himmler. After her are Franz Joseph I of Austria, Henry IV of France, Lorenzo de' Medici, Murad IV, Pepin the Short, and Harry S. Truman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Angela Merkel ranks 1After her are Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Jackie Chan, François Hollande, Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Hugo Chávez, Shinzō Abe, Alexander Lukashenko, Viktor Yushchenko, Halimah Yacob, and James Cameron.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Angela Merkel ranks 36 out of 7,253Before her are Friedrich Schiller (1759), Martin Heidegger (1889), Hermann Hesse (1877), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), and Heinrich Himmler (1900). After her are Thomas Mann (1875), Erwin Rommel (1891), Robert Koch (1843), Hermann Göring (1893), Bernhard Riemann (1826), and Werner Heisenberg (1901).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Angela Merkel ranks 7Before her are Charlemagne (748), Henry Kissinger (1923), Otto von Bismarck (1815), Frederick the Great (1712), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), and Heinrich Himmler (1900). After her are Hermann Göring (1893), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), William I, German Emperor (1797), Klemens von Metternich (1773), Joseph Goebbels (1897), and Reinhard Heydrich (1904).