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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, led his party's opposition to the Iraq War, and broadly positioned the party to the left of New Labour. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Kennedy has received more than 1,390,085 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Charles Kennedy is the 18,528th most popular politician (down from 17,142nd in 2019), the 6,683rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,244th in 2019) and the 692nd most popular British Politician.

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  • 44.04

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles Kennedy ranks 18,528 out of 19,576. Before him are Richard Schweiker, Bob Corker, Anna Eshoo, Tina Smith, Sébastien Lecornu, and William B. Saxbe. After him are Chuck Robb, Earl Blumenauer, Menzies Campbell, Movlud Miraliyev, Tom McMillen, and Navjot Singh Sidhu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Charles Kennedy ranks 726. Before him are Francisco Javier Toledo, Lahcen Ouadani, Eric Fellner, James MacMillan, Bert Cameron, and Mark Patton. After him are Vicky Ntetema, Sergei Alifirenko, Winona LaDuke, Brian Williams, Marc Cohn, and Michael Almereyda. Among people deceased in 2015, Charles Kennedy ranks 557. Before him are Raúl Gorriti, Anthony Mason, Perro Aguayo Jr., Richard Bakalyan, Ronnie Carroll, and Richard Schweiker. After him are Jim Wright, Howard Davis Jr., Bassel Khartabil, Dean Potter, Chenjerai Hove, and Alexis Vastine.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Kennedy ranks 6,683 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham (1909), Wade Barrett (1980), Richard Ayoade (1977), Tomás Ó Fiaich (1923), Ed Speleers (1988), and Dion Dublin (1969). After him are Stephen Hough (1961), Mark Davis (1972), Menzies Campbell (1941), Sophie Cookson (1990), Jimmy Adamson (1929), and Joseph Quinn (1994).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Charles Kennedy ranks 692. Before him are George Osborne (1971), Amber Rudd (1963), Jacob Rees-Mogg (1969), Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn (1945), Ann Widdecombe (1947), and Alan Johnson (1950). After him are Menzies Campbell (1941), Terence O'Neill (1914), David Blunkett (1947), Nadine Dorries (1957), Sally Jewell (1956), and Liam Fox (1961).

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