1937 - Today
Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo, , ( (listen) ; Yoruba: Olúṣẹ́gun Ọbásanjọ́ [olúʃɛ́ɡũ ɔbásanɟɔ];(Listen) born 5 March 1937) is a Nigerian retired military officer and statesman who served as Nigeria's head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007. Ideologically a Nigerian nationalist, he was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from 1998 to 2015, and since 2018. Born in the village of Ibogun-Olaogun to a farming family of the Owu branch of the Yoruba, Obasanjo was educated largely in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olusegun Obasanjo has received more than 2,201,684 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Olusegun Obasanjo is the 7,785th most popular politician (up from 8,009th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Nigeria and the 2nd most popular Nigerian Politician.
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Among politicians, Olusegun Obasanjo ranks 7,785 out of 15,577. Before him are Takeo Miki, Ion I. C. Brătianu, Giovanni Morelli, Abdul Ali Mazari, Al-Mansur Ali, and Philippe de Gaulle. After him are Clarice de' Medici, Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken, Souvanna Phouma, Adolfo de la Huerta, Xiao Jia, and Adib Shishakli.
1907 - 1988
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 7,779
1864 - 1927
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 7,780
1816 - 1891
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 7,781
1946 - 1995
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 7,782
1242 - 1259
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 7,783
1921 - Present
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 7,784
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 7,785
1493 - 1528
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 7,786
1385 - 1459
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 7,787
1901 - 1984
HPI: 54.91
Rank: 7,788
1881 - 1955
HPI: 54.91
Rank: 7,789
1700 BC - 1700 BC
HPI: 54.91
Rank: 7,790
1909 - 1964
HPI: 54.91
Rank: 7,791
Among people born in 1937, Olusegun Obasanjo ranks 132. Before him are Carmen Pereira, Jovan Divjak, Facundo Cabral, Ned Beatty, Lajos Portisch, and Aslan Usoyan. After him are Erich Segal, Dyan Cannon, Ted Nelson, Archie Shepp, Anna Hazare, and Sally Kellerman.
1937 - 2016
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 126
1937 - 2021
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 127
1937 - 2011
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 128
1937 - 2021
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 129
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 130
1937 - 2013
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 131
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 132
1937 - 2010
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 133
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 134
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 135
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.80
Rank: 136
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 137
1937 - 2022
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 138
Among people born in Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo ranks 11 out of 236. Before him are Chinua Achebe (1930), Fela Kuti (1938), Sade (1959), Usman dan Fodio (1754), Olaudah Equiano (1745), and Hakeem Olajuwon (1963). After him are Jay-Jay Okocha (1973), Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941), Tony Allen (1940), Sani Abacha (1943), Francis Arinze (1932), and Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951).
1930 - 2013
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 5
1938 - 1997
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 6
1959 - Present
HPI: 58.48
Rank: 7
1754 - 1817
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 8
1745 - 1797
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 9
1963 - Present
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 10
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 11
1973 - Present
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 12
1941 - 1995
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 13
1940 - 2020
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 14
1943 - 1998
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 15
1932 - Present
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 16
1951 - 2010
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 17
Among politicians born in Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo ranks 2. Before him are Muhammadu Buhari (1942). After him are Sani Abacha (1943), Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951), Goodluck Jonathan (1957), Shehu Shagari (1925), Ernest Shonekan (1936), Yakubu Gowon (1934), C. Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933), Abdullah al-Thani (1954), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (1954), and Ibrahim Babangida (1941).
1942 - Present
HPI: 62.21
Rank: 1
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 2
1943 - 1998
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 3
1951 - 2010
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 4
1957 - Present
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 5
1925 - 2018
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 6
1936 - 2022
HPI: 49.66
Rank: 7
1934 - Present
HPI: 49.57
Rank: 8
1933 - 2011
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 9
1954 - Present
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 10
1954 - Present
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 11
1941 - Present
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 12