POLITICIAN

Maurice Yaméogo

1921 - 1993

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Maurice Nawalagmba Yaméogo (31 December 1921 – 15 September 1993) was the first President of the Republic of Upper Volta, now called Burkina Faso, from 1960 until 1966. "Monsieur Maurice" embodied the Voltaic state at the moment of independence. However, his political ascension did not occur without difficulties. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Yaméogo has received more than 205,187 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Maurice Yaméogo is the 7,525th most popular politician (up from 7,693rd in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Burkina Faso and the 5th most popular Burkinabe Politician.

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Maurice Yaméogo ranks 7,525 out of 19,576. Before him are Jan Tschichold, Nominoe, Alfred Escher, Xiomara Castro, Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia, and Chimalpopoca. After him are Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Zu Ding, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Motilal Nehru, Stephen I, Ban of Bosnia, and Henry Pelham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Maurice Yaméogo ranks 127. Before him are Philippe de Gaulle, Branko Stanković, Gitta Sereny, Wolfgang Borchert, Pierre Clostermann, and César Baldaccini. After him are Eugenio Coșeriu, James Whitmore, Jaroslav Drobný, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Lidia Gueiler Tejada, and Jean Behra. Among people deceased in 1993, Maurice Yaméogo ranks 75. Before him are Meliton Kantaria, Kenneth E. Boulding, Desanka Maksimović, Salah Jadid, Myrna Loy, and John Connally. After him are Ishirō Honda, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Matthew Ridgway, Héctor Lavoe, Godfrey Chitalu, and Marian Anderson.

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In Burkina Faso

Among people born in Burkina Faso, Maurice Yaméogo ranks 5 out of 49. Before him are Thomas Sankara (1949), Blaise Compaoré (1951), Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (1957), and Michel Kafando (1942). After him are Saye Zerbo (1932), Philippe Ouédraogo (1945), Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo (1942), Yacouba Sawadogo (1946), Diébédo Francis Kéré (1965), Idrissa Ouédraogo (1954), and Paramanga Ernest Yonli (1956).

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Among POLITICIANS In Burkina Faso

Among politicians born in Burkina Faso, Maurice Yaméogo ranks 5. Before him are Thomas Sankara (1949), Blaise Compaoré (1951), Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (1957), and Michel Kafando (1942). After him are Saye Zerbo (1932), Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo (1942), Paramanga Ernest Yonli (1956), Yacouba Isaac Zida (1965), Apollinaire J. Kyélem de Tambèla (1958), Gilbert Diendéré (1960), and Gérard Kango Ouédraogo (1925).

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