JOURNALIST

Michaëlle Jean

1957 - Today

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Michaëlle Jean (French: [mi.ka.ɛl ʒɑ̃]; born September 6, 1957) is a Canadian former journalist who served as the 27th governor general of Canada from 2005 to 2010. She is the first Haitian Canadian and black person to hold this office. Jean was the third secretary-general of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie from 2015 until 2019. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michaëlle Jean has received more than 1,112,821 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Michaëlle Jean is the 85th most popular journalist (down from 67th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Haiti (down from 32nd in 2019) and the most popular Haitian Journalist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Michaëlle Jean ranks 85 out of 196. Before her are Dmitry Kiselyov, Dith Pran, Salima Ghezali, Homai Vyarawalla, Aleksey Suvorin, and Caroline Rémy de Guebhard. After her are James Nachtwey, Pauline Pfeiffer, James Foley, Malcolm Browne, Murray Walker, and Jon Ola Sand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Michaëlle Jean ranks 263. Before her are Tony Martin, Steve Jordan, Reiner Knizia, Han Kuo-yu, Lyle Lovett, and Theresa Russell. After her are José Reinaldo de Lima, Daniel Scioli, Marie Myriam, Johannes Hahn, Laura Johnson, and Martin Donovan.

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In Haiti

Among people born in Haiti, Michaëlle Jean ranks 40 out of 94. Before her are Jacques Roumain (1907), Élie Lescot (1883), Gérard Latortue (1934), Pierre Nord Alexis (1820), Martial Célestin (1913), and Louis Borno (1865). After her are Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (1745), Prosper Avril (1937), Dany Laferrière (1953), Ernst Jean-Joseph (1948), Henri Françillon (1946), and Wyclef Jean (1969).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Haiti

Among journalists born in Haiti, Michaëlle Jean ranks 1. 

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