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Laurent Gbagbo

1945 - Today

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Koudou Laurent Gbagbo (Gagnoa Bété: Gbagbo [ɡ͡baɡ͡bo]; French pronunciation: [loʁɑ̃ baɡbo]; born 31 May 1945) is an Ivorian politician who was the president of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. A historian, Gbagbo was imprisoned in the early 1970s and again in the early 1990s, and he lived in exile in France during much of the 1980s as a result of his union activism. Gbagbo founded the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) in 1982 and ran unsuccessfully for president against Félix Houphouët-Boigny at the start of multi-party politics in 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laurent Gbagbo has received more than 898,373 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Laurent Gbagbo is the 3,034th most popular politician (up from 3,915th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Côte d'Ivoire and the 3rd most popular Ivorian Politician.

Laurent Gbagbo was the president of Cote d'Ivoire until he was overthrown in 2011.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Laurent Gbagbo ranks 3,034 out of 19,576Before him are Charles III, Duke of Savoy, Deiphobus, Ernest, Elector of Saxony, Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Lluís Companys, and Xanana Gusmão. After him are Topa Inca Yupanqui, Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, Walter Hallstein, Emperor Kōrei, and Muwatalli II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Laurent Gbagbo ranks 57Before him are Nikita Mikhalkov, Bryan Ferry, Steve Martin, Keith Jarrett, José Feliciano, and Daniel Cohn-Bendit. After him are Alexey Ekimov, Itzhak Perlman, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Bette Midler, Richard Thaler, and Moncef Marzouki.

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In Côte d'Ivoire

Among people born in Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo ranks 4 out of 140Before him are Alassane Ouattara (1942), Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905), and Didier Drogba (1978). After him are Henri Konan Bédié (1934), Alpha Blondy (1953), Yaya Touré (1983), Robert Guéï (1941), Sangoulé Lamizana (1916), Ahmadou Kourouma (1927), Jean-Pierre Kutwa (1945), and Charles Konan Banny (1942).

Among POLITICIANS In Côte d'Ivoire

Among politicians born in Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo ranks 3Before him are Alassane Ouattara (1942), and Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905). After him are Henri Konan Bédié (1934), Robert Guéï (1941), Sangoulé Lamizana (1916), Charles Konan Banny (1942), Daniel Kablan Duncan (1943), Bernard Binlin Dadié (1916), Amadou Gon Coulibaly (1959), Seydou Diarra (1933), and Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio (1951).