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Gilles Duceppe

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Gilles Duceppe (French pronunciation: [ʒil dzysɛp]; born July 22, 1947) is a retired Canadian politician, proponent of the Quebec sovereignty movement and former leader of the Bloc Québécois. He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for over 20 years and was the leader of the sovereigntist Bloc Québécois for 15 years in three stints: 1996, 1997-2011 and in 2015. He was Leader of the Official Opposition in the Parliament of Canada from March 17, 1997, to June 1, 1997. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gilles Duceppe has received more than 362,430 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gilles Duceppe is the 16,939th most popular politician (down from 15,995th in 2019), the 645th most popular biography from Canada (up from 660th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular Canadian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gilles Duceppe ranks 16,939 out of 19,576. Before him are Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, Tetyana Dorovskikh, Andrew Holness, Alexandru Athanasiu, William Samuel Johnson, and Hans van Baalen. After him are Æthelric of Bernicia, Arun Jaitley, Grace Poe, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, Thomas Bibb, and Věra Růžičková.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Gilles Duceppe ranks 749. Before him are Wilton Daniel Gregory, Millie Small, Yulia Ryabchinskaya, Arthur Schnabel, Theodore Katsanevas, and Ron Freeman. After him are Yehude Simon, Denis Oswald, Tom Scholz, Annie Haslam, Borka Pavićević, and Julie Driscoll Tippetts.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Gilles Duceppe ranks 645 out of 1,622. Before him are Paul Shaffer (1949), Carlyle S. Beals (1899), Charlotte Le Bon (1986), Vic Emery (1933), Erik Everhard (1976), and Elmer Clifton (1890). After him are Sarah McLachlan (1968), Diego Klattenhoff (1979), Brad Armstrong (1965), Harry Watson (1898), Toller Cranston (1949), and Stéphane Dion (1955).

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Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, Gilles Duceppe ranks 53. Before him are Nellie McClung (1873), Gus Dillon (1881), Jagmeet Singh (1979), Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (1849), Patrick Roy (1965), and Charles Tupper (1821). After him are Stéphane Dion (1955), William Cockburn (1902), Norman Lane (1919), Jean Charest (1958), Jack Layton (1950), and Chrystia Freeland (1968).

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