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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paddy Ashdown has received more than 1,356,563 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Paddy Ashdown is the 14,036th most popular politician (down from 13,105th in 2019), the 564th most popular biography from India (down from 551st in 2019) and the 170th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Paddy Ashdown ranks 14,036 out of 15,577Before him are Celso Amorim, Jacques Parizeau, Joseph Muscat, Pybba of Mercia, Lobengula, and Gianni De Michelis. After him are Volodymyr Groysman, Serapio Calderón, Christian Albrecht Bluhme, Fred Ramdat Misier, Epameinondas Deligeorgis, and Eben Dönges.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Paddy Ashdown ranks 404Before him are Trish Van Devere, Boris Gaganelov, Walter Block, Aminata Sow Fall, James Joseph Dresnok, and John Nicholson. After him are Kaija Mustonen, François Weyergans, Bas van Fraassen, Jackie DeShannon, Anandiben Patel, and Nikolai Gubenko. Among people deceased in 2018, Paddy Ashdown ranks 320Before him are Susan Anspach, David Goodall, Kazimierz Kutz, Anne Treisman, Antonio Mercero, and Hal Greer. After him are Luigi Radice, Ion Ciubuc, Ilie Balaci, Madalena Iglésias, Daniel Quinn, and Rubén Galván.

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In India

Among people born in India, Paddy Ashdown ranks 564 out of 1,493Before him are Arthur E. Kennelly (1861), Purushottam Das Tandon (1882), Girija Devi (1929), Jeetendra (1942), Tim Severin (1940), and Pankaj Kapur (1954). After him are Tom Kibble (1932), Medha Patkar (1954), Zakir Hussain (1951), Rani Mukerji (1978), Gopinath Bordoloi (1890), and Kumar Pallana (1918).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Paddy Ashdown ranks 170Before him are Wasim Sajjad (1941), Palden Thondup Namgyal (1923), Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (1924), Asaf-ud-Daula (1748), K. B. Hedgewar (1889), and Purushottam Das Tandon (1882). After him are Gopinath Bordoloi (1890), Anandiben Patel (1941), Shah Shuja (1616), BP Koirala (1914), Mahboob Ali Khan (1866), and Lobsang Sangay (1968).