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Meles Zenawi

1955 - 2012

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Meles Zenawi Asres (Tigringa and Amharic: መለስ ዜናዊ ኣስረስ; pronounced [mɛllɛs zenawi asrɛs] ), born Legesse Zenawi Asres (9 May 1955 – 20 August 2012) was an Ethiopian politician and a former anti-Derg militant who served as president of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995 and as prime minister from 1995 until his death in 2012. Born in Adwa to an Ethiopian father and an Eritrean mother, Meles became actively involved in politics after changing his original first name from Legesse to Meles, adopted following the execution of fellow university student Meles Takele by the Derg government in 1975. In that year, he left Haile Selassie I University to join the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and fight against the Derg (the Mengistu Haile Mariam-led military dictatorship in Ethiopia). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meles Zenawi has received more than 1,089,671 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Meles Zenawi is the 6,318th most popular politician (down from 6,111th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Ethiopia (down from 13th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Ethiopian Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Meles Zenawi ranks 6,318 out of 19,576. Before him are Emperor Kōkō, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Julio María Sanguinetti, Roger Borsa, Vukan Nemanjić, and Theodore Metochites. After him are Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, Miloš Jakeš, Frederick Casimir Kettler, King Nan of Zhou, Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia, and Stephen Zápolya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Meles Zenawi ranks 86. Before him are Yo-Yo Ma, Mira Furlan, Iman, Hans-Peter Briegel, Bill Paxton, and Jeff Koons. After him are Jigme Singye Wangchuck, Michael Schenker, Valdis Zatlers, Sirindhorn, Ron Johnson, and Alessandro Altobelli. Among people deceased in 2012, Meles Zenawi ranks 87. Before him are Maurice Herzog, Neslişah Sultan, Galina Vishnevskaya, Maurice André, Hans Werner Henze, and Gore Vidal. After him are Rajesh Khanna, Miljan Miljanić, Estanislau Basora, Marcos Alonso, Giorgio Chinaglia, and Tonino Guerra.

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In Ethiopia

Among people born in Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi ranks 17 out of 105. Before him are Gebre Mesqel Lalibela (1200), Sahle-Work Zewde (1950), Abdullah ibn Ja'far (650), Girma Wolde-Giorgis (1924), Tewodros II (1818), and Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506). After him are Mulatu Teshome (1955), Kaleb of Axum (500), Abiy Ahmed (1976), Taytu Betul (1851), Haile Gebrselassie (1973), and Amha Selassie (1916).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ethiopia

Among politicians born in Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi ranks 13. Before him are Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (1946), Gebre Mesqel Lalibela (1200), Sahle-Work Zewde (1950), Girma Wolde-Giorgis (1924), Tewodros II (1818), and Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506). After him are Mulatu Teshome (1955), Kaleb of Axum (500), Abiy Ahmed (1976), Taytu Betul (1851), Amha Selassie (1916), and Yohannes IV (1837).

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