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Kofi Annan

1938 - 2018

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Kofi Atta Annan ( KOH-fee AN-an, US also -⁠ AH-nahn; 8 April 1938 – 18 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kofi Annan has received more than 6,129,890 page views. His biography is available in 137 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 131 in 2019). Kofi Annan is the 2nd most popular diplomat, the most popular biography from Ghana and the most popular Ghanaian Diplomat.

Kofi Annan is most famous for serving as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 for his work with the United Nations.

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  • 137

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  • 5.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Kofi Annan ranks 2 out of 90. Before him are Pocahontas. After him are John Jay, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Gaius Marius, Dag Hammarskjöld, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Alexandra Kollontai, Ban Ki-moon, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Raoul Wallenberg, and Lucien Bonaparte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Kofi Annan ranks 2. Before him is Romy Schneider. After him are Juan Carlos I of Spain, Beatrix of the Netherlands, Adriano Celentano, Claudia Cardinale, Rudolf Nureyev, Queen Sofía of Spain, Jon Voight, Nico, Islam Karimov, and Leonid Kuchma. Among people deceased in 2018, Kofi Annan ranks 4. Before him are Stephen Hawking, Aretha Franklin, and George H. W. Bush. After him are Charles Aznavour, Ingvar Kamprad, Montserrat Caballé, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Stan Lee, Bernardo Bertolucci, Miloš Forman, and Amos Oz.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, Kofi Annan ranks 1 out of 162. After him are Kwame Nkrumah (1909), Marcel Desailly (1968), Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Abedi Pele (1964), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703), Jerry Rawlings (1947), Michael Essien (1982), John Atta Mills (1944), Peter Turkson (1948), and Peter Mensah (1959).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Ghana

Among diplomats born in Ghana, Kofi Annan ranks 1. 

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