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Mark Carney

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Mark Joseph Carney (born March 16, 1965) is a Canadian politician and economist serving as the 24th prime minister of Canada and leader of the Liberal Party since 2025. He previously served as the eighth governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and the 120th governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020. Carney was born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University in 1988, then studied at the University of Oxford, where he earned a master's degree in 1993 and a doctorate in 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mark Carney has received more than 3,606,054 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Mark Carney is the 18,643rd most popular politician (down from 16,562nd in 2019), the 990th most popular biography from Canada (down from 763rd in 2019) and the 74th most popular Canadian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mark Carney ranks 18,643 out of 19,576. Before him are Kristian Jensen, Dixy Lee Ray, Camelia Macoviciuc-Mihalcea, Albert Demchenko, André Boisclair, and Bob Woolmer. After him are Alan Cranston, Richard Riley, Nikola Dimitrov, Vanja Udovičić, Tom Cotton, and Sally Jewell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Mark Carney ranks 796. Before him are Dmitri Mironov, Erzsébet Kocsis, Klaus Sulzenbacher, Mark Jackson, Svetlana Nageykina, and Lynda Boyd. After him are Yoshikazu Isoda, Jens-Peter Herold, Olaf Hampel, Ángeles González-Sinde, Mike O'Brien, and Nobuhiro Ueno.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Mark Carney ranks 990 out of 1,622. Before him are Shaun Sipos (1981), Mercedes McNab (1980), Greg Moore (1975), Lynda Boyd (1965), Roxanne McKee (1980), and André Boisclair (1966). After him are Jacqueline MacInnes Wood (1987), Theoren Fleury (1968), Ryan Robbins (1972), Patrick Chan (1990), Vasek Pospisil (1990), and Tessa Virtue (1989).

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Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, Mark Carney ranks 74. Before him are Hazel McCallion (1921), Vincent Massey (1887), Tom Mulcair (1954), Edward Schreyer (1935), Joseph Albert Sullivan (1901), and André Boisclair (1966). After him are François-Philippe Champagne (1970), Peter MacKay (1965), Rob Ford (1969), Marie Yovanovitch (1958), Jayna Hefford (1977), and Pierre Poilievre (1979).

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