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Daniel Cohn-Bendit

1945 - Today

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Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (French: [danjɛl maʁk kɔn bɛndit], German: [ˈdaːni̯eːl ˈmaʁk koːn ˈbɛndɪt, -ni̯ɛl -]; born 4 April 1945) is a French-German politician. Born stateless to a German-Polish Ashkenazi Jewish family, Daniel Cohn-Bendit obtained German citizenship in 1959 and French citizenship in 2015. Cohn-Bendit was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge (French for "Danny the Red", because of both his politics and the colour of his hair). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Cohn-Bendit has received more than 589,050 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Daniel Cohn-Bendit is the 3,025th most popular politician (up from 3,286th in 2019), the 984th most popular biography from France (up from 1,084th in 2019) and the 228th most popular French Politician.

Daniel Cohn-Bendit is most famous for his role in the 1968 student protests in France. He was one of the leaders of the student uprising, and he was the youngest person to be elected to the National Assembly.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Daniel Cohn-Bendit ranks 3,025 out of 19,576Before him are Kim Koo, Leopold VI, Duke of Austria, Stephen III of Hungary, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, and Emperor Kanmu. After him are Sultan Husayn Bayqara, Boris Shcherbina, Charles III, Duke of Savoy, Deiphobus, Ernest, Elector of Saxony, and Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Daniel Cohn-Bendit ranks 56Before him are Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Nikita Mikhalkov, Bryan Ferry, Steve Martin, Keith Jarrett, and José Feliciano. After him are Laurent Gbagbo, Alexey Ekimov, Itzhak Perlman, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Bette Midler, and Richard Thaler.

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In France

Among people born in France, Daniel Cohn-Bendit ranks 984 out of 6,770Before him are Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813), Catherine of Valois (1401), Jules Renard (1864), Cardinal de Rohan (1734), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), and Henri Giraud (1879). After him are Charles III, Duke of Savoy (1486), Philippe Ariès (1914), Germaine of Foix (1488), Étienne Bézout (1730), Augustin Robespierre (1763), and Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907).

Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Daniel Cohn-Bendit ranks 228Before him are Joan II, Countess of Burgundy (1292), André-Hercule de Fleury (1653), Jules de Polignac (1780), Philip II, Duke of Savoy (1438), Christina of Lorraine (1565), and Cardinal de Rohan (1734). After him are Charles III, Duke of Savoy (1486), Augustin Robespierre (1763), Jean Casimir-Perier (1847), Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (1802), Jean Moulin (1899), and Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653).