POLITICIAN

Jeanne Sauvé

1922 - 1993

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Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé (née Benoît; April 26, 1922 – January 26, 1993) was a Canadian politician, journalist and stateswoman who served as the 23rd governor general of Canada from 1984 to 1990 and as the 29th speaker of the House of Commons from 1980 to 1984. She was the first woman to hold either office, and is to date the only woman to serve as speaker of the House of Commons. Sauvé was born in Prud'homme, Saskatchewan, and educated in Ottawa and Paris, prior to working as a journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeanne Sauvé has received more than 351,835 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jeanne Sauvé is the 16,331st most popular politician (down from 14,954th in 2019), the 551st most popular biography from Canada (down from 498th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Canadian Politician.

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  • 350k

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  • 44.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jeanne Sauvé ranks 16,331 out of 19,576. Before her are Sahle Dengel, Pier Ferdinando Casini, Hatı Çırpan, Edward Seaga, Pandeli Majko, and Nora Astorga. After her are Beniamino Andreatta, Evripidis Bakirtzis, Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez, Marcus Plautius Silvanus, Lyubov Kozyreva, and Grasulf II of Friuli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Jeanne Sauvé ranks 387. Before her are Charles Brown, Herbert Schade, Roberto Lovera, Héctor Rossetto, Janis Paige, and Elsa Joubert. After her are Valentine Telegdi, Jacques Pollet, Arthur Hill, Haskell Wexler, Alain de Changy, and Nicholas Katzenbach. Among people deceased in 1993, Jeanne Sauvé ranks 260. Before her are Elizabeth Holloway Marston, Göta Pettersson, Albert Hyzler, Bengt Edlén, Heinrich Albertz, and Vilmos Zombori. After her are Ray Gillen, Janusz Sidło, Sammy Cahn, Harvey Kurtzman, Helen Sawyer Hogg, and Kerry Von Erich.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Jeanne Sauvé ranks 551 out of 1,622. Before her are Guy Delisle (1966), Jack Cameron (1900), Rob Gonsalves (1959), Robert Lepage (1957), Barbara Parkins (1942), and Robert J. Sawyer (1960). After her are Kenneth Lane (1923), Arthur Hill (1922), Farley Mowat (1921), Edward Archibald (1884), Charles Scicluna (1959), and Dorothy Stratten (1960).

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Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, Jeanne Sauvé ranks 46. Before her are Jennifer Granholm (1959), Ian Millar (1947), John Sparrow David Thompson (1845), Gaétan Boucher (1958), Marc Garneau (1949), and Scotty Bowman (1933). After her are Nellie McClung (1873), Gus Dillon (1881), Jagmeet Singh (1979), Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (1849), Patrick Roy (1965), and Charles Tupper (1821).

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