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Mary Lou McDonald

1969 - Today

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Mary Louise McDonald (born 1 May 1969) is an Irish politician who has served as Leader of the Opposition in Ireland since June 2020, as President of Sinn Féin since February 2018, and as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Central constituency since 2011. She previously served as vice president of Sinn Féin from 2009 to 2018 and as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2004 to 2009. On 10 February 2018, following a special ardfheis (party conference) in Dublin, McDonald succeeded Gerry Adams to become Sinn Féin's first new leader since 1983 and the party's first female leader since Margaret Buckley (president from 1937 to 1950). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Lou McDonald has received more than 1,969,834 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Mary Lou McDonald is the 17,694th most popular politician (down from 16,780th in 2019), the 368th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 397th in 2019) and the 57th most popular Irish Politician.

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  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mary Lou McDonald ranks 17,694 out of 19,576. Before her are Augustin Matata Ponyo, Nick Leeson, Tomasi Puapua, Estes Kefauver, Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, and Button Gwinnett. After her are Jim Jordan, George Stephanopoulos, Lisa Paus, Phil Hogan, Eliud Williams, and Michelle Lujan Grisham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Mary Lou McDonald ranks 553. Before her are Jesús Ángel García Bragado, Jörg Roßkopf, Neil Strauss, Andrew Howard, Tatiana Bulanova, and Domino Harvey. After her are Ashley Jensen, Petra Kronberger, Chin Han, Jason Blum, Motohiro Yamaguchi, and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Mary Lou McDonald ranks 368 out of 549. Before her are Desmond Connell (1926), Mairead McGuinness (1959), Henry John Stephen Smith (1826), Kerry Condon (1983), Shay Given (1976), and James Mason (1849). After her are Phil Hogan (1960), Finn Bálor (1981), Frank Stapleton (1956), Kian Egan (1980), Henry Grattan (1746), and Thomas Fitzsimons (1741).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Mary Lou McDonald ranks 57. Before her are William Hobson (1792), William J. Duane (1780), Seán Lemass (1899), Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (1116), Edward Carson (1854), and Mairead McGuinness (1959). After her are Phil Hogan (1960), Henry Grattan (1746), Thomas Fitzsimons (1741), Éamonn Ceannt (1881), John Redmond (1856), and Seán Mac Diarmada (1883).

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