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Jean-Marie Le Pen

1928 - 2025

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Jean Louis Marie Le Pen (20 June 1928 – 7 January 2025), commonly known as Jean-Marie Le Pen (French: [ʒɑ̃maʁi lə pɛn]), was a French politician, lawyer and activist. He founded the far-right National Front (now National Rally) party and served as the party's president from 1972 to 2011 and as its honorary president from 2011 to 2015. He focused on issues related to immigration to France, the European Union, traditional culture and values, law and order, and France's high rate of unemployment. His progression in the 1980s is known as the "lepénisation of minds" due to its noticeable effect on mainstream political opinion. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Jean-Marie Le Pen is the 1,370th most popular politician (down from 1,279th in 2019), the 494th most popular biography from France (down from 470th in 2019) and the 118th most popular French Politician.

Jean-Marie Le Pen is most famous for being the founder of the far-right National Front Party in France. He was also the leader of the party from 1972 to 2011.

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Among politicians, Jean-Marie Le Pen ranks 1,370 out of 19,576. Before him are Töregene Khatun, Andrei Zhdanov, Sarah Palin, Ernst Thälmann, Harold Macmillan, and Rodolfo Graziani. After him are Joachim Gauck, William II of England, Dionysius I of Syracuse, Leo IV the Khazar, Sam Nujoma, and Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Jean-Marie Le Pen ranks 24. Before him are Rinus Michels, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Didi, Jeanne Moreau, Yves Klein, and Alexander Grothendieck. After him are Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Shirley Temple, James Coburn, Kim Yong-nam, Alvin Toffler, and Elie Wiesel. Among people deceased in 2025, Jean-Marie Le Pen ranks 8. Before him are José Mujica, Mario Vargas Llosa, David Lynch, Gene Hackman, Boris Spassky, and Marianne Faithfull. After him are Sam Nujoma, Horst Köhler, George Foreman, Aga Khan IV, Val Kilmer, and Richard Chamberlain.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Marie Le Pen ranks 494 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753), Antoine of Navarre (1518), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Alfred Werner (1866), Christine Lagarde (1956), and Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647). After him are Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), William II of England (1056), Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (1045), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), André Citroën (1878), and Frédéric Bazille (1841).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Jean-Marie Le Pen ranks 118. Before him are Caroline Bonaparte (1782), Stephen, King of England (1095), Charles-Henri Sanson (1739), Carus (230), Antoine of Navarre (1518), and Christine Lagarde (1956). After him are William II of England (1056), Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550), Aristide Briand (1862), Elisa Bonaparte (1777), Carloman I (751), and Gaspard II de Coligny (1519).

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