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Janez Janša

1958 - Today

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Ivan Janša (Slovene: [ˈíːʋan ˈjàːnʃa]; born 17 September 1958), baptized and best known as Janez Janša (Slovene: [ˈjàːnɛs]), is a Slovenian politician who served three times as a prime minister of Slovenia, a position he had held from 2004 to 2008, from 2012 to 2013, and from 2020 to 2022. Since 1993, Janša has led the Slovenian Democratic Party, which has emerged as the pre-eminent Slovenian conservative party. Janša lost his fourth bid for prime minister in April 2022, his party defeated by the Freedom Movement party.Janša served as Minister of Defence from 1990 to 1994, a post he had also held during the Slovenian War of Independence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Janez Janša has received more than 689,338 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Janez Janša is the 4,795th most popular politician (down from 3,130th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Slovenia (down from 10th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Slovene Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Janez Janšas by language

Over the past year Janez Janša has had the most page views in the with 61,660 views, followed by Slovenian (41,668), and German (7,818). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (96.30%), Esperanto (39.19%), and Serbo-Croatian (31.63%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Janez Janša ranks 4,795 out of 19,576Before him are Leszek the White, Walter Mondale, Abdullah Khan II, Ernst Johann von Biron, Liamine Zéroual, and Félix Tshisekedi. After him are Prince Henry of Battenberg, James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este, Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Katalin Novák, and Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Janez Janša ranks 43Before him are Yoav Galant, Anne L'Huillier, Avigdor Lieberman, Annette Bening, Quique Setién, and Andre Geim. After him are Robert Patrick, Mohammad Shtayyeh, Ralf Rangnick, Giancarlo Esposito, Kais Saied, and Rami Hamdallah.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Janez Janša ranks 23 out of 340Before him are Thomas Luckmann (1927), Wilhelm von Tegetthoff (1827), Jernej Kopitar (1780), Hermann II, Count of Celje (1361), Carlos, Duke of Madrid (1848), and Arkan (1952). After him are Borut Pahor (1963), Primož Trubar (1508), Jacobus Gallus (1550), Ulrich II, Count of Celje (1406), Branko Oblak (1947), and Danilo Türk (1952).

Among POLITICIANS In Slovenia

Among politicians born in Slovenia, Janez Janša ranks 8Before him are Milan Kučan (1941), Edvard Kardelj (1910), Janez Drnovšek (1950), Aleksander Čeferin (1967), Hermann II, Count of Celje (1361), and Arkan (1952). After him are Borut Pahor (1963), Danilo Türk (1952), Anton Korošec (1872), Robert Golob (1967), Sergej Kraigher (1914), and Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia (1929).