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Patrice Lumumba

20th-century Congolese Prime Minister and leader

1925 - 1961

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His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 92 in 2024). Patrice Lumumba is the 582nd most popular politician (down from 369th in 2024), the most popular biography from Congo - Kinshasa and the most popular Congolese Politician.

Patrice Lumumba was the first democratically elected leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was assassinated in 1961 and is most famous for being the first democratically elected leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Patrice Lumumba is the highest-ranked of the 107 individuals in Pantheon born in Congo - Kinshasa.

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Patrice Lumumba's biography appears in 97 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 98% of all Politicians.

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Patrice Lumumba shares a July 2 birthday with Hermann Hesse, Imelda Marcos, and Olav V of Norway.

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Patrice Lumumba's Wikipedia page drew 2.3M views over the past year — 14× the average among Politicians.

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Among Politicians

Among politicians, Patrice Lumumba ranks 582 out of 19,576. Before him are Suharto, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Morsi, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Atahualpa, and Scipio Africanus. After him are Yongle Emperor, Theodora Porphyrogenita, Nur ad-Din, Rurik, Charles XV of Sweden, and Galerius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Patrice Lumumba ranks 10. Before him are Barbara Bush, Richard Burton, B.B. King, Paul Newman, Yukio Mishima, and Mahathir Mohamad. After him are Robert Edwards, Gilles Deleuze, Alija Izetbegović, Zygmunt Bauman, Albert Bandura, and Jorge Rafael Videla. Among people deceased in 1961, Patrice Lumumba ranks 6. Before him are Carl Jung, Ernest Hemingway, Erwin Schrödinger, Zog I of Albania, and Dag Hammarskjöld. After him are Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Emily Greene Balch, Lee de Forest, Jules Bordet, Gary Cooper, and Percy Williams Bridgman.

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In Congo - Kinshasa

Among people born in Congo - Kinshasa, Patrice Lumumba ranks 1 out of 107. After him are Mobutu Sese Seko (1930), Moïse Tshombe (1919), Laurent-Désiré Kabila (1939), Denis Mukwege (1955), Claude Makélélé (1973), Dikembe Mutombo (1966), Fridolin Ambongo Besungu (1960), Félix Tshisekedi (1963), Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya (1939), Antoine Gizenga (1925), and Joseph Kabila (1971).

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Among Politicians In Congo - Kinshasa

Among politicians born in Congo - Kinshasa, Patrice Lumumba ranks 1. After him are Mobutu Sese Seko (1930), Moïse Tshombe (1919), Laurent-Désiré Kabila (1939), Félix Tshisekedi (1963), Antoine Gizenga (1925), Joseph Kabila (1971), Étienne Tshisekedi (1932), Likulia Bolongo (1939), Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi (1930), Sylvestre Ilunga (1947), and Jean-Pierre Bemba (1962).

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