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Bernard Kouchner

1939 - Today

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Bernard Kouchner (born 1 November 1939) is a French politician and doctor. He is the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Médecins du Monde. From 2007 until 2010, he was the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the center-right Fillon government under president Nicolas Sarkozy, although he had been in the past a minister in socialist governments. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard Kouchner has received more than 400,536 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Kouchner is the 225th most popular physician (down from 199th in 2019), the 1,735th most popular biography from France (down from 1,473rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Bernard Kouchner ranks 225 out of 726Before him are Hans Rosling, Carl von Rokitansky, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Paul of Aegina, and Barry Marshall. After him are Patch Adams, Regnier de Graaf, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, Leander of Seville, Tasuku Honjo, and Johann Weyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Bernard Kouchner ranks 97Before him are Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Daniel C. Tsui, Seamus Heaney, Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria, Eugene Fama, and Nikola Pilić. After him are Yaphet Kotto, Cynthia Lennon, Kathryn Joosten, Michael Moorcock, Lee Majors, and Krzysztof Zanussi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bernard Kouchner ranks 1,735 out of 6,770Before him are Henri-Edmond Cross (1856), Alix of France (1151), Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830), Georges Delerue (1925), Thierry Mugler (1948), and Beatrice of Provence (1229). After him are Théo Sarapo (1936), Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans (1695), Claude Garamond (1499), Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier (1605), Anne Geneviève de Bourbon (1619), and Jeanne Guyon (1648).

Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Bernard Kouchner ranks 25Before him are Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), Maurice Bucaille (1920), Guy de Chauliac (1300), Paul Gachet (1828), Albert Calmette (1863), and Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757). After him are Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772), Marcel Petiot (1897), Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), François Magendie (1783), Édouard Séguin (1812), and Edmond Locard (1877).