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Annette Lu

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Annette Lu Hsiu-lien (Chinese: 呂秀蓮; pinyin: Lǚ Xiùlián; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lū Siù-liân; born 7 June 1944) is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer. A feminist active in the tangwai movement, she joined the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 1990, and was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1992. Subsequently, she served as Taoyuan County Magistrate between 1997 and 2000, and was vice president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008, under President Chen Shui-bian. Before entering politics, Lu graduated from National Taiwan University and earned law degrees from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and from Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Annette Lu has received more than 220,088 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Annette Lu is the 12,047th most popular politician (up from 13,047th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Taiwan and the 10th most popular Taiwanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Annette Lu ranks 12,047 out of 19,576Before her are Salvador Valdés Mesa, Ghezo, Margaret of France, Duchess of Brabant, Govind Ballabh Pant, Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and Danilo Astori. After her are Pōmare I, Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland, Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild, Tudiya, Æthelfrith, and Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Annette Lu ranks 350Before her are Nikolai Karachentsov, Enrique Irazoqui, George Baker, Ahmed Chalabi, Divina Galica, and Moe Tucker. After her are Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, John McCook, Yusuf Estes, Muhammad az-Zanati, José Eulogio Gárate, and Miruts Yifter.

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In Taiwan

Among people born in Taiwan, Annette Lu ranks 21 out of 116Before her are Jensen Huang (1963), Brigitte Lin (1954), Su Tseng-chang (1947), Joan Lin (1953), Hou Yu-ih (1956), and Ko Wen-je (1960). After her are Steve Chen (1978), Cheng Yen (1937), Frank Hsieh (1946), Elaine Chao (1953), Jay Chou (1979), and You Si-kun (1948).

Among POLITICIANS In Taiwan

Among politicians born in Taiwan, Annette Lu ranks 10Before her are Chen Shui-bian (1950), Chen Chien-jen (1951), Zheng Keshuang (1670), Su Tseng-chang (1947), Hou Yu-ih (1956), and Ko Wen-je (1960). After her are Frank Hsieh (1946), Elaine Chao (1953), You Si-kun (1948), Wu Den-yih (1948), Eric Chu (1961), and Han Kuo-yu (1957).