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Bob Hawke

1929 - 2019

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Robert James Lee Hawke (9 December 1929 – 16 May 2019) was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), having previously served as the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 1969 to 1980 and president of the Labor Party national executive from 1973 to 1978. Hawke was born in Border Town, South Australia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bob Hawke has received more than 3,053,011 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Bob Hawke is the 11,126th most popular politician (up from 11,694th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Australia (up from 114th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Australian Politician.

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  • 52.42

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  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bob Hawke ranks 11,126 out of 19,576. Before him are Chadae of Goguryeo, Muhammad Naji al-Otari, Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach, Alessandro Fortis, Tommaso Tittoni, and Francesco Loredan. After him are Agasicles, Andronikos Doukas Angelos, Ruben I, Prince of Armenia, Cleombrotus II, Li Shangfu, and Miro, Count of Barcelona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Bob Hawke ranks 224. Before him are Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Hal Ashby, Hugues Aufray, Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, Péter Szondi, and Lee Shau-kee. After him are Ronald Golias, George Crumb, Luigi Taveri, Christian Marin, Gerhard Hanappi, and Haruo Nakajima. Among people deceased in 2019, Bob Hawke ranks 196. Before him are José José, Robert Evans, Sadako Ogata, Pal Benko, Scott Walker, and Rudi Gutendorf. After him are Mitchell Feigenbaum, Chelo Alonso, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Charles Jencks, Claude Goretta, and Prosper Grech.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Bob Hawke ranks 100 out of 1,143. Before him are John Curtin (1885), Christopher Doyle (1952), Banjo Paterson (1864), Jacki Weaver (1947), Edmund Barton (1849), and Miranda Otto (1967). After him are Vernon Wells (1945), David Warren (1925), Bob Hewitt (1940), George Pell (1941), Julian McMahon (1968), and Jack Crawford (1908).

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Among POLITICIANS In Australia

Among politicians born in Australia, Bob Hawke ranks 8. Before him are David Hurley (1953), Harold Holt (1908), John Howard (1939), Anthony Albanese (1963), John Curtin (1885), and Edmund Barton (1849). After him are Kevin Rudd (1957), Robert Menzies (1894), Bill Hayden (1933), Peter Scully (1963), Dawn Fraser (1937), and Alfred Deakin (1856).

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