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Helen Suzman

1917 - 2009

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Helen Suzman, OMSG, DBE (née Gavronsky; 7 November 1917 – 1 January 2009) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician. She represented a series of liberal and centre-left opposition parties during her 36-year tenure in the whites-only, National Party-controlled House of Assembly of South Africa at the height of apartheid. She hosted the meeting that founded the Progressive Party in 1959, and was its only MP in the 160-member House for thirteen years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helen Suzman has received more than 446,052 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Helen Suzman is the 13,375th most popular politician (down from 12,441st in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 101st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular South African Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

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  • 3.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Helen Suzman ranks 13,375 out of 15,577. Before her are Rafael Reyes, Antonio Di Pietro, Guillermo Rodríguez, Valeriy Pustovoitenko, Hailemariam Desalegn, and Syama Prasad Mukherjee. After her are Carlos Roberto Reina, Arsinoe of Macedon, Nikolai Baibakov, Bernhard Hammer, Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, and Stavros Dimas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Helen Suzman ranks 213. Before her are Ernesto Alonso, José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Torsten Lindberg, Babiker Awadalla, Vernon A. Walters, and Robert Fano. After her are Jane Bowles, Joseph Wresinski, Victor Marijnen, José Luis Sampedro, Bagrat Shinkuba, and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.. Among people deceased in 2009, Helen Suzman ranks 222. Before her are Torsten Lindberg, Marilyn French, Mary Travers, Gangubai Hangal, Ivan Gubijan, and Anselmo Duarte. After her are Mamadou Dia, Ron Asheton, Harry Patch, Rodrigo Carazo Odio, Miroslav Filip, and Semyon Farada.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Helen Suzman ranks 95 out of 374. Before her are Mpande kaSenzangakhona (1798), Lesley-Ann Brandt (1981), Ian Scheckter (1947), Ingrid Jonker (1933), Trevor Rabin (1954), and Sharlto Copley (1973). After her are Sid Atkinson (1901), John McDowell (1942), Goodwill Zwelithini (1948), Rudolph Lewis (1887), Louis Raymond (1895), and Jim Fouché (1898).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Africa

Among politicians born in South Africa, Helen Suzman ranks 32. Before her are Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), Oliver Tambo (1917), Walter Sisulu (1912), Chris Hani (1942), Jan de Klerk (1903), and Mpande kaSenzangakhona (1798). After her are Goodwill Zwelithini (1948), Jim Fouché (1898), Pik Botha (1932), Eben Dönges (1898), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (1949), and Ted Moore (1914).

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