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Kofi Annan

1938 - 2018

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Kofi Atta Annan ( KOH-fee AN-an; 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 5,856,142 page views. His biography is available in 131 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 129 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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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Kofi Annan ranks 2 out of 52. Before him are Pocahontas. After him are Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Gaius Marius, Dag Hammarskjöld, Ban Ki-moon, John Jay, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Alexandra Kollontai, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Raoul Wallenberg, and Madeleine Albright.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Kofi Annan ranks 1. After him are Romy Schneider, Juan Carlos I of Spain, Beatrix of the Netherlands, Claudia Cardinale, Adriano Celentano, Jon Voight, Rudolf Nureyev, Queen Sofía of Spain, Leonid Kuchma, Nico, and Islam Karimov. 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, Stan Lee, Montserrat Caballé, Miloš Forman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Charles K. Kao, and Amos Oz.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, Kofi Annan ranks 1 out of 121. After him are Kwame Nkrumah (1909), Abedi Pele (1964), Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Marcel Desailly (1968), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703), Jerry Rawlings (1947), Peter Turkson (1948), Michael Essien (1982), Peter Mensah (1959), and John Kufuor (1938).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Ghana

Among diplomats born in Ghana, Kofi Annan ranks 1. 

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