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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 298,615 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Hifikepunye Pohamba is the 6,687th most popular politician (up from 7,257th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Namibia and the 3rd most popular Namibian Politician.

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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hifikepunye Pohamba ranks 6,687 out of 19,576. Before him are Lusius Quietus, George Wallace, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Margherita de' Medici, Taimur bin Feisal, and Fletcher Christian. After him are Leszek II the Black, Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Al-Mustadi, Ferenc Fricsay, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, and Hugo Haase.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Hifikepunye Pohamba ranks 126. Before him are Amr Moussa, Claude Brasseur, Jannis Kounellis, Yuan T. Lee, Georgina Spelvin, and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. After him are Jo Siffert, Adem Demaçi, Ivan Stambolić, Jan Gehl, Horst Mahler, and Carol Gilligan.

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In Namibia

Among people born in Namibia, Hifikepunye Pohamba ranks 4 out of 15. Before him are Sam Nujoma (1929), Hage Geingob (1941), and Nǃxau ǂToma (1944). After him are Saara Kuugongelwa (1967), Nahas Angula (1943), Theo-Ben Gurirab (1938), Frankie Fredericks (1967), Behati Prinsloo (1988), Collin Benjamin (1978), Percy Montgomery (1974), and Michelle McLean (1972).

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Among POLITICIANS In Namibia

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

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