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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 643,159 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). John Atta Mills is the 10,772nd most popular politician (up from 11,365th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Ghana (down from 11th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ghanaian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Atta Mills ranks 10,772 out of 15,577Before him are Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén, Engelbert, Duke of Carinthia, Manuel Prado Ugarteche, Max Vasmer, Oldřich Černík, and Archelaus II of Macedon. After him are Charles Evans Hughes, Conrad I, Count of Württemberg, Ioannis Georgiadis, Roque Sáenz Peña, Carlos Pellegrini, and Agim Çeku.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, John Atta Mills ranks 283Before him are Abdulah Sidran, Kevin Ayers, Alexander Vencel, Alex Metreveli, Gladys Knight, and Michael Buffer. After him are Angela Winkler, Pierre Arditi, Naná Vasconcelos, George Baker, Rebecca Horn, and Manuela Carmena. Among people deceased in 2012, John Atta Mills ranks 177Before him are Vicar, Georgi Lozanov, Elliott Carter, Fiorenzo Magni, Boris Parygin, and Celeste Holm. After him are William Thurston, John Hick, Harry Carey Jr., Sage Stallone, Dawoud Rajiha, and Jon Finch.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, John Atta Mills ranks 13 out of 121Before him are Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703), Jerry Rawlings (1947), Peter Turkson (1948), Michael Essien (1982), Peter Mensah (1959), and John Kufuor (1938). After him are William Boyd (1952), Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915), Ignatius Kutu Acheampong (1931), Tony Yeboah (1966), Samuel Kuffour (1976), and Asamoah Gyan (1985).

Among POLITICIANS In Ghana

Among politicians born in Ghana, John Atta Mills ranks 6Before him are Kwame Nkrumah (1909), Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), Jerry Rawlings (1947), and John Kufuor (1938). After him are Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915), Ignatius Kutu Acheampong (1931), John Mahama (1958), Hilla Limann (1934), Fred Akuffo (1937), and Edward Akufo-Addo (1906).