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Muhammadu Buhari

1942 - Today

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Muhammadu Buhari (; born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician and retired Nigerian army major general who served as the president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023. He was the military head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, succeeding Shehu Shagari following the 1983 Nigerian coup d'état. Buhari ran for president of Nigeria on the platform and support of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in 2003 and 2007, and on the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) platform in 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammadu Buhari has received more than 6,120,893 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Muhammadu Buhari is the 3,173rd most popular politician (down from 3,015th in 2019), the most popular biography from Nigeria (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Nigerian Politician.

Muhammadu Buhari is most famous for being a Nigerian military leader and politician who has served as the President of Nigeria since 2015.

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  • 6.1M

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  • 67.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 82

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Muhammadu Buhari ranks 3,173 out of 19,576. Before him are Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Tetricus I, As-Salih Ayyub, Jacobo Árbenz, Gyeongjong of Goryeo, and Köprülü Mehmed Pasha. After him are Djedkare Isesi, Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, Demaratus, Raymond of Poitiers, Milonia Caesonia, and Heshen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Muhammadu Buhari ranks 77. Before him are Carlos Reutemann, Gilberto Gil, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vicente Fox, and Maurizio Pollini. After him are Junichiro Koizumi, Peter Greenaway, Hissène Habré, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, John Cale, and Jean-Claude Trichet.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari ranks 1 out of 309. After him are Wole Soyinka (1934), Dr. Alban (1957), Chinua Achebe (1930), Hugo Weaving (1960), Sade (1959), Fela Kuti (1938), Usman dan Fodio (1754), Jay-Jay Okocha (1973), Bola Tinubu (1952), Olusegun Obasanjo (1937), and Hakeem Olajuwon (1963).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nigeria

Among politicians born in Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari ranks 1. After him are Bola Tinubu (1952), Olusegun Obasanjo (1937), Sani Abacha (1943), Goodluck Jonathan (1957), Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951), Abdulsalami Abubakar (1942), Ibrahim Babangida (1941), Shehu Shagari (1925), Yakubu Gowon (1934), C. Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933), and Murtala Mohammed (1938).

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