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John Atta Mills

1944 - 2012

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John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills (21 July 1944 – 24 July 2012) was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as President of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012. He was inaugurated on 7 January 2009, having defeated the governing party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 Ghanaian presidential election. He was previously the Vice-President from 1997 to 2001 under President Jerry Rawlings, and he contested unsuccessfully in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections as the candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Atta Mills has received more than 687,714 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). John Atta Mills is the 9,702nd most popular politician (up from 10,742nd in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Ghana (up from 13th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Ghanaian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Atta Mills ranks 9,702 out of 19,576. Before him are Ibrahim Abboud, Sigurd Slembe, Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe, Enrique Cerezo, Quintus Caecilius Metellus, and Princess Augusta of Cambridge. After him are Fredrik Reinfeldt, Ashikaga Yoshihide, Jack Lang, Chungsuk of Goryeo, Princess Olga Paley, and Zbigniew Religa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, John Atta Mills ranks 260. Before him are Angela Winkler, Nicholas, Crown Prince of Montenegro, Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, Arnon Milchan, Pierre Arditi, and Susana Giménez. After him are Michael Buffer, Wolfgang Weber, Lena Nyman, Vernor Vinge, Earnie Shavers, and Alexander Vencel. Among people deceased in 2012, John Atta Mills ranks 140. Before him are Georgi Lozanov, Iajuddin Ahmed, Lakshmi Sahgal, George Knobel, Pavel Grachev, and Georges Mathieu. After him are Lisa Della Casa, Besse Cooper, Josef Škvorecký, Blagoje Adžić, Alexis Weissenberg, and Maurice Sendak.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, John Atta Mills ranks 10 out of 162. Before him are Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Abedi Pele (1964), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703), Jerry Rawlings (1947), and Michael Essien (1982). After him are Peter Turkson (1948), Peter Mensah (1959), John Kufuor (1938), William Boyd (1952), Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915), and Samuel Kuffour (1976).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ghana

Among politicians born in Ghana, John Atta Mills ranks 5. Before him are Kwame Nkrumah (1909), Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), and Jerry Rawlings (1947). After him are John Kufuor (1938), Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915), Ignatius Kutu Acheampong (1931), John Mahama (1958), Fred Akuffo (1937), Hilla Limann (1934), and Akwasi Afrifa (1936).

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