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Mamadou Dia

1910 - 2009

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Mamadou Dia (18 July 1910 – 25 January 2009) was a Senegalese politician who served as the first Prime Minister of Senegal from 1957 until 1962, when he was forced to resign and was subsequently imprisoned amidst allegations that he was planning to stage a military coup to overthrow President Léopold Sédar Senghor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mamadou Dia has received more than 77,756 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Mamadou Dia is the 14,499th most popular politician (down from 13,368th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Senegal and the 7th most popular Senegalese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mamadou Dia ranks 14,499 out of 19,576Before him are Enrichetta d'Este, Basdeo Panday, Alain Peyrefitte, Konstantios Doukas, Abel Goumba, and Titus Manlius Torquatus. After him are Johannes Hahn, Chang Wanquan, Alfredo Nobre da Costa, Pixodarus, Vlad Filat, and Publius Rupilius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Mamadou Dia ranks 271Before him are Laurance Rockefeller, Fritzi Burger, Heitor Canalli, Adalberts Bubenko, Henry L. Giclas, and Duncan McNaughton. After him are Gennady Voronov, William Schuman, Gunnar Fischer, Max Miedinger, Mary Lou Williams, and Hilde Schrader. Among people deceased in 2009, Mamadou Dia ranks 251Before him are Torsten Lindberg, Dave Arneson, Veronika Dudarova, Miroslav Filip, Irving Kristol, and Abel Goumba. After him are Kim Manners, Ron Asheton, Shota Chochishvili, Charles W. Juels, Héctor Facundo, and Harve Presnell.

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In Senegal

Among people born in Senegal, Mamadou Dia ranks 20 out of 138Before him are Lamine Diack (1933), Souleymane Sané (1961), Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow (1921), Aliou Cissé (1976), Papa Bouba Diop (1978), and Mame Madior Boye (1940). After him are Ba Mamadou Mbaré (1946), Safi Faye (1943), Théodore-Adrien Sarr (1936), El Hadji Diouf (1981), Aminata Sow Fall (1941), and Ibrahim Ba (1973).

Among POLITICIANS In Senegal

Among politicians born in Senegal, Mamadou Dia ranks 7Before him are Ségolène Royal (1953), Abdoulaye Wade (1926), Macky Sall (1961), Abdou Diouf (1935), Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow (1921), and Mame Madior Boye (1940). After him are Ba Mamadou Mbaré (1946), Habib Thiam (1933), Fatma Samoura (1962), Mahammed Dionne (1959), Aminata Touré (1962), and Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré (1951).