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Edward Lowassa

1953 - 2024

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Edward Ngoyai Lowassa (26 August 1953 – 10 February 2024) was a Tanzanian politician who was Prime Minister of Tanzania from 2005 to 2008, serving under President Jakaya Kikwete. Lowassa went into record as the first Prime Minister to have been forced to resign by a fraud scandal in the history of Tanzania. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Lowassa has received more than 364,162 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Edward Lowassa is the 11,653rd most popular politician (up from 16,642nd in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Tanzania (up from 25th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Tanzanian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edward Lowassa ranks 11,653 out of 19,576. Before him are Lawrence Eagleburger, Maciej Rataj, Charles James Fox, Peter Pellegrini, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, and Lucius Caecilius Metellus Calvus. After him are Prince Maurice of Battenberg, Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, Valentina Grizodubova, Max von Hausen, Alberto Demicheli, and John, Duke of Randazzo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Edward Lowassa ranks 195. Before him are Francis Cabrel, Serginho Chulapa, Ian Khama, Zoran Janković, Gérard Krawczyk, and Satoru Nakajima. After him are Salvatore Garau, Midge Ure, Robert Wisdom, Dragan Kićanović, Andreas Vollenweider, and Andrey Makarevich. Among people deceased in 2024, Edward Lowassa ranks 206. Before him are William Calley, Jesse Jane, Eric Carmen, Vladimir Aksyonov, Tony Todd, and Wu Bangguo. After him are Bora Đorđević, Mykhaylo Fomenko, Liam Payne, Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Roland Dumas, and Stefan Abadzhiev.

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In Tanzania

Among people born in Tanzania, Edward Lowassa ranks 14 out of 39. Before him are Laurean Rugambwa (1912), Tippu Tip (1837), Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (1929), Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar (1874), Majid bin Said of Zanzibar (1834), and Mizengo Pinda (1948). After him are John Magufuli (1959), Polycarp Pengo (1944), Kassim Majaliwa (1961), Protase Rugambwa (1960), Marin Hinkle (1966), and Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944).

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Among POLITICIANS In Tanzania

Among politicians born in Tanzania, Edward Lowassa ranks 11. Before him are Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), Tippu Tip (1837), Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (1929), Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar (1874), Majid bin Said of Zanzibar (1834), and Mizengo Pinda (1948). After him are John Magufuli (1959), Kassim Majaliwa (1961), Asha-Rose Migiro (1956), Rashidi Kawawa (1926), Cleopa Msuya (1931), and Amani Abeid Karume (1948).

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