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Ernest Shonekan

1936 - 2022

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Chief Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan (9 May 1936 – 11 January 2022) was a Nigerian lawyer and statesman who served as the interim head of state of Nigeria from 26 August 1993 to 17 November 1993. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernest Shonekan has received more than 447,971 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Ernest Shonekan is the 11,844th most popular politician (up from 13,729th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Nigeria (up from 47th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Nigerian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ernest Shonekan ranks 11,844 out of 15,577. Before him are Jayalalithaa, Wiglaf of Mercia, Adolf Ogi, Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg, Maithripala Sirisena, and PU-Sarruma. After him are Erika Steinbach, Valérie Trierweiler, Isa Mustafa, Hamed Karoui, Oisc of Kent, and Fyodor Dan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Ernest Shonekan ranks 272. Before him are Feliciano Rivilla, Klaus Doldinger, Jozef Vengloš, Edward Feigenbaum, John Madden, and Alejandro Maldonado. After him are Ennio Antonelli, Ong Teng Cheong, Touria Chaoui, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Norman Manea, and Željko Perušić. Among people deceased in 2022, Ernest Shonekan ranks 230. Before him are Mitchell Ryan, Agostino Cacciavillan, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Philippe Streiff, Alice von Hildebrand, and Muhammad Rafiq Tarar. After him are Hans-Jürgen Dörner, Anatoly Filipchenko, Ole Ellefsæter, Benjamin Kogo, Susana Dosamantes, and Ercole Baldini.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Ernest Shonekan ranks 21 out of 236. Before him are Sani Abacha (1943), Francis Arinze (1932), Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951), Goodluck Jonathan (1957), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977), and Shehu Shagari (1925). After him are Yakubu Gowon (1934), C. Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933), Abdullah al-Thani (1954), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (1954), Ibrahim Babangida (1941), and Rashidi Yekini (1963).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nigeria

Among politicians born in Nigeria, Ernest Shonekan ranks 7. Before him are Muhammadu Buhari (1942), Olusegun Obasanjo (1937), Sani Abacha (1943), Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951), Goodluck Jonathan (1957), and Shehu Shagari (1925). After him are Yakubu Gowon (1934), C. Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933), Abdullah al-Thani (1954), Ibrahim Babangida (1941), Murtala Mohammed (1938), and Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904).

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