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Hifikepunye Pohamba

1936 - Today

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Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba (born 18 August 1935) is a Namibian politician who served as the second president of Namibia from 21 March 2005 to 21 March 2015. He won the 2004 presidential election overwhelmingly as the candidate of SWAPO, and was reelected in 2009. Pohamba was the president of SWAPO from 2007 until his retirement in 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hifikepunye Pohamba has received more than 276,749 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Hifikepunye Pohamba is the 7,277th most popular politician (down from 7,064th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Namibia and the 3rd most popular Namibian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hifikepunye Pohamba ranks 7,277 out of 15,577Before him are Munjamyeong of Goguryeo, Alcetas I of Epirus, Barbara Jagiellon, Louis Riel, Michail Stasinopoulos, and Rafael Casanova. After him are Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Prince Alexandre of Belgium, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Tommaso Mocenigo, and Sartaq Khan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Hifikepunye Pohamba ranks 138Before him are Zeynab Khanlarova, Robert Downey Sr., A. B. Yehoshua, Julio María Sanguinetti, Jacques Charrier, and Ken Mattingly. After him are Arend Lijphart, Klaus Kinkel, Leonel Sánchez, Glenda Jackson, Philippe Sollers, and Costas Simitis.

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In Namibia

Among people born in Namibia, Hifikepunye Pohamba ranks 4 out of 14Before him are Nǃxau ǂToma (1944), Hage Geingob (1941), and Sam Nujoma (1929). After him are Saara Kuugongelwa (1967), Nahas Angula (1943), Theo-Ben Gurirab (1938), Frankie Fredericks (1967), Behati Prinsloo (1988), Collin Benjamin (1978), Michelle McLean (1972), and Percy Montgomery (1974).

Among POLITICIANS In Namibia

Among politicians born in Namibia, Hifikepunye Pohamba ranks 3Before him are Hage Geingob (1941) and Sam Nujoma (1929). After him are Saara Kuugongelwa (1967), Nahas Angula (1943), and Theo-Ben Gurirab (1938).