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Jacques Barrot

1937 - 2014

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Jacques Barrot (French: [ʒak baʁo]; 3 February 1937 – 3 December 2014) was a French politician, who served as European Commissioner for Justice from 2008 to 2010, after having spent four years serving as Commissioner for Transport from 2004 to 2008 and Commissioner for Regional Policy for eight months in 2004. He was also one of five vice-presidents of the 27-member Barroso Commission. He previously held various ministerial positions in France, and was a member of the right-wing political party UMP. He was officially approved in his post by the European Parliament on 18 June 2008 with a vote of 489 to 52 with 19 abstentions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Barrot has received more than 61,281 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jacques Barrot is the 14,709th most popular politician (down from 13,744th in 2019), the 4,488th most popular biography from France (down from 4,138th in 2019) and the 856th most popular French Politician.

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  • 54.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jacques Barrot ranks 14,709 out of 19,576. Before him are Leopold II, Duke of Austria, Hoyte van Hoytema, Ron DeSantis, Ali Muhammad Mujawar, Mirian I of Iberia, and Ashur-rabi I. After him are Paul Keating, Joshua Chamberlain, José Manuel Pando, Alenka Bratušek, Gary Locke, and Aly Lotfy Mahmoud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Jacques Barrot ranks 375. Before him are Alexander Vampilov, Carmelo Bene, Héctor Facundo, Attilio Nicora, Nancy Wilson, and Ferenc Kósa. After him are Jan Kaplický, Joanna Russ, René Kollo, Frans De Mulder, Barbara Windsor, and David Acevedo. Among people deceased in 2014, Jacques Barrot ranks 331. Before him are Bengt Eriksson, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Frans van der Lugt, Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Dietmar Schönherr, and Helma Sanders-Brahms. After him are Els Borst, Tony Benn, Jonathan Williams, Frankie Knuckles, Miloslava Rezková, and J. E. Freeman.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Barrot ranks 4,488 out of 6,770. Before him are Robert Charpentier (1916), Medhi Benatia (1987), Luc Ferry (1951), Roger Planchon (1931), Raymond Depardon (1942), and Robert Budzynski (1940). After him are Victor Duruy (1811), Aurélien Tchouaméni (2000), Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881), Albert Préjean (1894), Eugène Martin (1915), and Victoire Léodile Béra (1824).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Jacques Barrot ranks 856. Before him are Érik Orsenna (1947), Francis Biddle (1886), Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway (1648), Jean-Paul Proust (1940), Patrick Achi (1955), and Luc Ferry (1951). After him are Victor Duruy (1811), Claude Cheysson (1920), Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771), Louis Aliot (1969), James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope (1673), and Arlette Laguiller (1940).

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