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Oliver Tambo

1917 - 1993

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Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo (27 October 1917 – 24 April 1993) was a South African anti-apartheid politician and activist who served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967 to 1991. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oliver Tambo has received more than 1,618,961 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Oliver Tambo is the 12,299th most popular politician (up from 12,348th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from South Africa (up from 79th in 2019) and the 24th most popular South African Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Oliver Tambo ranks 12,299 out of 19,576. Before him are José Joaquín Prieto, Jaan Poska, Sebastian Kurz, José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca, Mikhail Petrashevsky, and Victorino de la Plaza. After him are Louis of Burgundy, Manuela Carmena, Aeropus II of Macedon, Frances Cleveland, Susanna M. Salter, and Jafar Sharif-Emami.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Oliver Tambo ranks 185. Before him are Steno, William H. McNeill, Musine Kokalari, Otto Glória, Christiane Rochefort, and I Gusti Ngurah Rai. After him are Ann Rutherford, Katharine Graham, Inge Scholl, Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Song Ping, and Lise Nørgaard. Among people deceased in 1993, Oliver Tambo ranks 147. Before him are Erich Leinsdorf, Steve James, Emile Ardolino, Evelyne Hall, Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, and Hédi Amara Nouira. After him are Guido del Mestri, Alexandre Trauner, John Frost, Sam Wanamaker, Roy Raymond, and Paul Mebus.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Oliver Tambo ranks 72 out of 454. Before him are Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), Ian Scheckter (1947), Eric Sturgess (1920), John Cranko (1927), Gordon Murray (1946), and Oscar Pistorius (1986). After him are Evelyn Mase (1922), Alice Krige (1954), Mangosuthu Buthelezi (1928), Walter Sisulu (1912), Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), and Laurens van der Post (1906).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Africa

Among politicians born in South Africa, Oliver Tambo ranks 24. Before him are Marais Viljoen (1915), Christiaan de Wet (1854), Piet Joubert (1834), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), J. B. M. Hertzog (1866), and Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819). After him are Mangosuthu Buthelezi (1928), Walter Sisulu (1912), Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), Nico Diederichs (1903), Helen Suzman (1917), and J. G. Strijdom (1893).

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