1936 - Today
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, Hifikepunye Pohamba ranks 7,277 out of 15,577. Before 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.
450 - 519
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 7,271
410 BC - 370 BC
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 7,272
1478 - 1534
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 7,273
1844 - 1885
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 7,274
1903 - 2002
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 7,275
1660 - 1743
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 7,276
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 7,277
1938 - Present
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 7,278
1857 - 1882
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 7,279
1942 - 2009
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 7,280
1903 - 1946
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 7,281
1343 - 1423
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 7,282
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 7,283
Among people born in 1936, Hifikepunye Pohamba ranks 138. Before 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.
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 132
1936 - 2021
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 133
1936 - 2022
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 134
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 135
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 136
1936 - 2023
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 137
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 138
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 139
1936 - 2019
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 140
1936 - 2022
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 141
1936 - 2023
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 142
1936 - 2023
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 143
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 144
Among people born in Namibia, Hifikepunye Pohamba ranks 4 out of 14. Before 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).
1944 - 2003
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 1
1941 - 2024
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 2
1929 - Present
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 3
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 4
1967 - Present
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 5
1943 - Present
HPI: 48.31
Rank: 6
1938 - 2018
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 7
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.58
Rank: 8
1988 - Present
HPI: 40.16
Rank: 9
1978 - Present
HPI: 31.61
Rank: 10
1972 - Present
HPI: 31.04
Rank: 11
1974 - Present
HPI: 30.25
Rank: 12
Among politicians born in Namibia, Hifikepunye Pohamba ranks 3. Before him are Hage Geingob (1941) and Sam Nujoma (1929). After him are Saara Kuugongelwa (1967), Nahas Angula (1943), and Theo-Ben Gurirab (1938).
1941 - 2024
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 1
1929 - Present
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 2
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 3
1967 - Present
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 4
1943 - Present
HPI: 48.31
Rank: 5
1938 - 2018
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 6