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David Lange

1942 - 2005

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David Russell Lange ( LONG-ee; 4 August 1942 – 13 August 2005) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 32nd prime minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. Lange was born and brought up in Ōtāhuhu, the son of a physician. He became a lawyer, and represented poor and struggling people in civil rights causes in the rapidly changing Auckland of the 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Lange has received more than 470,333 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). David Lange is the 14,779th most popular politician (down from 13,469th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from New Zealand and the 10th most popular New Zealander Politician.

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  • 470k

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  • 43.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, David Lange ranks 14,779 out of 15,577Before him are Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, Amarinder Singh, Andrea Montermini, Iñigo Urkullu, Juan Bautista Ceballos, and Leyla Yunus. After him are Aristides Gomes, Rashid Nurgaliyev, José Ignacio Pavón, Gartnait I, Te Atairangikaahu, and Frances Perkins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, David Lange ranks 520Before him are Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez, Michael Crawford, Alessandro Pesenti-Rossi, Juan Carlos Sarnari, Ivan Koloff, and Amarinder Singh. After him are Edmond Baraffe, Alan Rachins, Rutanya Alda, Dan Haggerty, Jesús Glaría, and Daniel Revenu. Among people deceased in 2005, David Lange ranks 269Before him are Robin Cook, Carl Amery, John Ostrom, Ismail Merchant, Aulis Kallakorpi, and Derek Bailey. After him are Dahlia Ravikovitch, Ihor Rybak, Leonid Shamkovich, Paul Winchell, John N. Bahcall, and Givi Nodia.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, David Lange ranks 67 out of 248Before him are Rupert Julian (1879), Margaret Mahy (1936), John Key (1961), Terence Bayler (1930), Bill English (1961), and Lawrence Makoare (1968). After him are Te Atairangikaahu (1931), Andrew Adamson (1966), Peter Hambleton (1960), Hugh Walpole (1884), Keith Park (1892), and Neroli Fairhall (1944).

Among POLITICIANS In New Zealand

Among politicians born in New Zealand, David Lange ranks 10Before him are Helen Clark (1950), Patsy Reddy (1954), Catherine Tizard (1931), Jean Batten (1909), John Key (1961), and Bill English (1961). After him are Te Atairangikaahu (1931), John Gorton (1911), Anand Satyanand (1944), Juliet Mitchell (1940), Tūheitia Paki (1955), and Bill Pickering (1910).