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Charles Kennedy

1959 - 2015

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Charles Peter Kennedy (25 November 1959 – 1 June 2015) was a British politician who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1999 to 2006, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ross, Skye and Lochaber from 1983 to 2015. Kennedy was elected to the House of Commons in 1983, and after the Alliance parties merged, became president of the Liberal Democrats and, following the resignation of Paddy Ashdown in August 1999, leader of the Liberal Democrats. He led the party in the 2001 and 2005 general elections, increasing its number of seats in the House of Commons to their highest level since 1923, and led his party's opposition to the Iraq War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Kennedy has received more than 1,244,203 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Charles Kennedy is the 17,203rd most popular politician (down from 15,305th in 2019), the 6,259th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,627th in 2019) and the 648th most popular British Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles Kennedy ranks 17,203 out of 15,577. Before him are John Sparkman, Elena Băsescu, Prakash Karat, Stojna Vangelovska, Hilda Solis, and François-Philippe Champagne. After him are Reince Priebus, Movlud Miraliyev, Gyaincain Norbu, Anna Hasselborg, Caroline Lucas, and Hadia Tajik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Charles Kennedy ranks 665. Before him are Li Meisu, Angelo Scuri, Joseph R. Gannascoli, Winona LaDuke, Kathy Jordan, and Chris Woods. After him are Gregory Kaidanov, Todd Graff, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Chris Van Hollen, Koenraad Elst, and Fred Couples. Among people deceased in 2015, Charles Kennedy ranks 507. Before him are Perro Aguayo Jr., Howard Davis Jr., Alexis Vastine, Annarita Sidoti, Richard Meade, and Avijit Roy. After him are Márton Fülöp, Jerome Kersey, Olga Syahputra, Windell Middlebrooks, Sergey Sharikov, and Gregory Mertens.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Kennedy ranks 6,259 out of 7,765. Before him are Trevor Cherry (1948), Keisha Buchanan (1984), Chris Woods (1959), Judy Grinham (1939), Warren Christie (1975), and Paul Allender (1970). After him are Hannah Spearritt (1981), Des Walker (1965), Nick O'Malley (1985), Gary Bailey (1958), Bradley Walsh (1960), and Steven Davis (1985).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Charles Kennedy ranks 648. Before him are Ivor Richard (1932), Menzies Campbell (1941), Terence O'Neill (1914), Tessa Jowell (1947), Ben Wallace (1970), and David Blunkett (1947). After him are Caroline Lucas (1960), Sally Jewell (1956), Liam Fox (1961), Arlene Foster (1970), Mo Mowlam (1949), and John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness (1955).

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