1949 - Today
Moussa Muhammad El-Haj Nemr Koussa (Arabic: موسى كوسا, Arabic pronunciation: [ˈmusaˌkosa]; born 1949?) is a Libyan political figure and diplomat, who held several high-profile positions in the Libyan government, lastly as Minister of Foreign Affairs from March 2009, into the Libyan Civil War, when he resigned his position on 30 March 2011. Koussa previously headed the Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya (national intelligence agency) from 1994 to 2009, and was considered one of the country's most powerful figures and a member of Gaddafi's inner circle. When he arrived in the United Kingdom in March 2011, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office released an official statement saying that Koussa no longer wished to represent the Libyan government and intended to resign. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moussa Koussa has received more than 87,653 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Moussa Koussa is the 13,045th most popular politician (down from 12,269th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Libya (up from 44th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Libyan Politician.
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Among politicians, Moussa Koussa ranks 13,045 out of 15,577. Before him are Arcesilaus IV of Cyrene, Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Vsevolod of Pskov, Joe Lieberman, D. S. Senanayake, and Mart Helme. After him are Ducetius, Mart Siimann, Servius Sulpicius Galba, Wu Den-yih, Paulo Maluf, and François Asselineau.
500 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 47.67
Rank: 13,039
1918 - 2003
HPI: 47.67
Rank: 13,040
HPI: 47.67
Rank: 13,041
1942 - Present
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 13,042
1883 - 1952
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 13,043
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 13,044
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 13,045
488 BC - 440 BC
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 13,046
1946 - Present
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 13,047
95 BC - 43 BC
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 13,048
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 13,049
1931 - Present
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 13,050
1957 - Present
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 13,051
Among people born in 1949, Moussa Koussa ranks 347. Before him are Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Kalevi Aho, Natalia Kuchinskaya, Habib Essid, Alexander Maltsev, and Mart Helme. After him are Mohamed Akid, Jean Asselborn, César Aira, George Winston, Jonathan Carroll, and Chris Van Allsburg.
1949 - 2015
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 341
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 342
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 343
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 344
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 345
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 346
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 347
1949 - 1979
HPI: 47.61
Rank: 348
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 349
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.57
Rank: 350
1949 - 2023
HPI: 47.55
Rank: 351
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.55
Rank: 352
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 353
Among people born in Libya, Moussa Koussa ranks 41 out of 64. Before him are Abdullah Senussi (1949), Mutassim Gaddafi (1974), Mustafa Abdul Jalil (1952), Mohammed Magariaf (1940), Shukri Ghanem (1942), and Arcesilaus IV of Cyrene (-500). After him are Abdurrahim El-Keib (1950), Mahmoud Jibril (1952), Ali Zeidan (1950), Ayesha Gaddafi (1976), Arcesilaus I of Cyrene (-637), and Abdul Qadir al-Badri (1921).
1949 - Present
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 35
1974 - 2011
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 36
1952 - Present
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 37
1940 - Present
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 38
1942 - 2012
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 39
500 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 47.67
Rank: 40
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 41
1950 - 2020
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 42
1952 - 2020
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 43
1950 - Present
HPI: 47.40
Rank: 44
1976 - Present
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 45
637 BC - 583 BC
HPI: 46.66
Rank: 46
1921 - 2003
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 47
Among politicians born in Libya, Moussa Koussa ranks 19. Before him are Abdullah Senussi (1949), Mutassim Gaddafi (1974), Mustafa Abdul Jalil (1952), Mohammed Magariaf (1940), Shukri Ghanem (1942), and Arcesilaus IV of Cyrene (-500). After him are Abdurrahim El-Keib (1950), Mahmoud Jibril (1952), Ali Zeidan (1950), Ayesha Gaddafi (1976), Arcesilaus I of Cyrene (-637), and Abdul Qadir al-Badri (1921).
1949 - Present
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 13
1974 - 2011
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 14
1952 - Present
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 15
1940 - Present
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 16
1942 - 2012
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 17
500 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 47.67
Rank: 18
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 19
1950 - 2020
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 20
1952 - 2020
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 21
1950 - Present
HPI: 47.40
Rank: 22
1976 - Present
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 23
637 BC - 583 BC
HPI: 46.66
Rank: 24
1921 - 2003
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 25