POLITICIAN

Basdeo Panday

1933 - 2024

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Basdeo Panday (pronounced [bɑːsəd̪eːoː pɑːⁿɖeː]; 25 May 1933 – 1 January 2024) was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian statesman, lawyer, politician, trade unionist, economist, and actor who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001. He was the first person of Indian descent along with being the first Hindu to hold the office of Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He was first elected to Parliament in 1976 as the Member for Couva North, Panday served as Leader of the Opposition four times between 1976 and 2010 and was a founding member of the United Labour Front (ULF), the National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR), and the United National Congress (UNC). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Basdeo Panday has received more than 380,681 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Basdeo Panday is the 14,494th most popular politician (up from 17,071st in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Trinidad and Tobago (up from 34th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Trinidadian Politician.

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  • 380k

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  • 47.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Basdeo Panday ranks 14,494 out of 19,576. Before him are Felix Lichnowsky, Rudolf Scharping, Luis Alberto Monge, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, Saleh Kebzabo, and Enrichetta d'Este. After him are Alain Peyrefitte, Konstantios Doukas, Abel Goumba, Titus Manlius Torquatus, Mamadou Dia, and Johannes Hahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Basdeo Panday ranks 355. Before him are Don Thompson, Ira Murchison, Bengt Berndtsson, Reiner Kunze, Imants Ziedonis, and Leonid Kharitonov. After him are Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Renée Colliard, Richard Williams, Mike Larrabee, Akira Endo, and May Britt. Among people deceased in 2024, Basdeo Panday ranks 286. Before him are Takayuki Kubota, Mario Boljat, Bill Walton, James C. Scott, Yehuda Bauer, and Jean-Claude Gaudin. After him are Richard Simmons, Akira Endo, Akebono Tarō, Carolyn Schuler, Ron Ely, and Zdeněk Pecka.

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In Trinidad and Tobago

Among people born in Trinidad and Tobago, Basdeo Panday ranks 10 out of 71. Before him are Keith Rowley (1949), Billy Ocean (1950), Nicki Minaj (1982), George Maxwell Richards (1931), Dwight Yorke (1971), and Paula-Mae Weekes (1958). After him are Stokely Carmichael (1941), Steven Pressfield (1943), Edmundo Ros (1910), Michael Fisher (1931), Stephen Mallory (1813), and Geoffrey Holder (1930).

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Among POLITICIANS In Trinidad and Tobago

Among politicians born in Trinidad and Tobago, Basdeo Panday ranks 4. Before him are Keith Rowley (1949), George Maxwell Richards (1931), and Paula-Mae Weekes (1958). After him are A. N. R. Robinson (1926), Christine Kangaloo (1961), Anthony Carmona (1953), Eric Williams (1911), Kamla Persad-Bissessar (1952), Patrick Manning (1946), Ellis Clarke (1917), and Noor Hassanali (1918).

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