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Paddy Ashdown

1941 - 2018

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Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon (27 February 1941 – 22 December 2018), better known as Paddy Ashdown, was a British politician and diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 to 1999. Internationally, he is recognised for his role as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006, following his vigorous lobbying for military action against Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Ashdown had an interpretership qualification in Mandarin and was fluent in several other languages, including Malay, German, French and Bosnian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paddy Ashdown has received more than 1,475,681 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Paddy Ashdown is the 15,529th most popular politician (down from 13,987th in 2019), the 704th most popular biography from India (down from 560th in 2019) and the 203rd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Paddy Ashdown ranks 15,529 out of 19,576. Before him are Barkat Gourad Hamadou, Serapio Calderón, Ephraïm Inoni, Yusuf Adil Shah, Dhana Nanda, and Shaukat Aziz. After him are Abdulhashim Mutalov, Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier, Lothar Späth, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Adel Safar, and Nina Bang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Paddy Ashdown ranks 486. Before him are Ivica Brzić, Ritt Bjerregaard, Giancarlo Bercellino, Sean Flynn, Nils Arne Eggen, and Ulf Sterner. After him are Ray Thomas, Viktor Putyatin, Colin Higgins, Aaron Neville, Liese Prokop, and Graciela Borges. Among people deceased in 2018, Paddy Ashdown ranks 385. Before him are Jürgen Marcus, Nh. Dini, Judith Rich Harris, Mac Miller, Jimmy Armfield, and Barkat Gourad Hamadou. After him are Ray Thomas, Antonio Mercero, Giuliana Calandra, Alfred W. Crosby, Delio Gamboa, and Momoko Sakura.

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In India

Among people born in India, Paddy Ashdown ranks 704 out of 1,861. Before him are Vijay Amritraj (1953), Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928), Mehdi Hassan (1927), Soumitra Chatterjee (1935), Vijay Mallya (1955), and Tom Kibble (1932). After him are Govinda (1963), Madhavrao I (1745), Dwarkanath Tagore (1794), Naveen Patnaik (1946), Jasraj (1930), and Anita Desai (1937).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Paddy Ashdown ranks 203. Before him are Mahboob Ali Khan (1866), Anandiben Patel (1941), Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (1924), Asaf-ud-Daula (1748), Choudhry Rahmat Ali (1895), and I. I. Chundrigar (1897). After him are Madhavrao I (1745), Naveen Patnaik (1946), M. K. Stalin (1953), Nirmala Sitharaman (1959), S. M. Krishna (1932), and Muiz ud din Bahram (null).

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