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Helen Clark

1950 - Today

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Helen Elizabeth Clark (born 26 February 1950) is a New Zealand politician who served as the 37th prime minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008 and was the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2009 to 2017. She was New Zealand's fifth-longest-serving prime minister, and the second woman to hold that office. Clark was brought up on a farm outside Hamilton. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helen Clark has received more than 1,486,093 page views. Her biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Helen Clark is the 4,808th most popular politician (up from 11,420th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from New Zealand (up from 37th in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Helen Clark ranks 4,808 out of 19,576. Before her are Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, Calpurnia, Prithvi Narayan Shah, Yael Dayan, Nicolae Iorga, and Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa. After her are Ablai Khan, Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Emperor Kōgon, Timoleon, and Emperor Sushun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Helen Clark ranks 68. Before her are Amos Gitai, Sahle-Work Zewde, John Candy, David Graf, Chantal Akerman, and Chen Shui-bian. After her are Grigory Sokolov, Brad Dourif, Miki Manojlović, Robert B. Laughlin, Sônia Braga, and Tsui Hark.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Helen Clark ranks 11 out of 303. Before her are Bruce McLaren (1937), Peter Jackson (1961), Katherine Mansfield (1888), Denny Hulme (1936), Alan MacDiarmid (1927), and Thomas Williams (1930). After her are Chris Amon (1943), Burt Munro (1899), Martin Campbell (1943), Kiri Te Kanawa (1944), Lucy Lawless (1968), and John Money (1921).

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Among POLITICIANS In New Zealand

Among politicians born in New Zealand, Helen Clark ranks 1. After her are Burt Munro (1899), Jacinda Ardern (1980), Jean Batten (1909), Patsy Reddy (1954), Wallace Fard Muhammad (1893), Michael Hardie Boys (1931), John Key (1961), John Gorton (1911), Silvia Cartwright (1943), Te Atairangikaahu (1931), and David Lange (1942).

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