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Peter MacKay

1965 - Today

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Peter Gordon MacKay (born September 27, 1965) is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 and has served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General (2013–2015), Minister of National Defence (2007–2013), and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006–2007) in the Cabinet of Canada under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. MacKay was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and he agreed to merge the party with Stephen Harper's Canadian Alliance in 2003, forming the Conservative Party of Canada and making MacKay one of the co-founders of the current conservative wing of Canadian politics. The son of Canadian politician and Minister of Public Works Elmer MacKay, MacKay received his undergraduate degree from Acadia University and his law degree from Dalhousie University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter MacKay has received more than 1,122,284 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Peter MacKay is the 18,783rd most popular politician (down from 17,339th in 2019), the 1,045th most popular biography from Canada (down from 1,010th in 2019) and the 76th most popular Canadian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Peter MacKay ranks 18,783 out of 19,576. Before him are Valerie Jarrett, Brian Goodell, David Pryor, Joshua Bolten, Elena Băsescu, and Zoe Lofgren. After him are Rob Ford, Tomasz Makowski, Saxby Chambliss, Emil Dimitriev, Kristina Schröder, and Mark Sanford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Peter MacKay ranks 838. Before him are Pierpaolo Ferrazzi, Michelle Stafford, Shaban Trstena, Bertalan Hajtós, Dan Jansen, and Seema Biswas. After him are Billy Donovan, Zhang Xin, Håkon Wium Lie, Lilies Handayani, Patty Fendick, and Atul Gawande.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Peter MacKay ranks 1,045 out of 1,622. Before him are Daniel Adair (1975), Scott Stevens (1964), Issey Nakajima-Farran (1984), Alessandro Juliani (1975), Zack Ward (1970), and James Heilman (1979). After him are Rob Ford (1969), Erik Guay (1981), Jessica Stam (1986), Christine Sinclair (1983), François Arnaud (1985), and Val Venis (1971).

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Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, Peter MacKay ranks 76. Before him are Tom Mulcair (1954), Edward Schreyer (1935), Joseph Albert Sullivan (1901), André Boisclair (1966), Mark Carney (1965), and François-Philippe Champagne (1970). After him are Rob Ford (1969), Marie Yovanovitch (1958), Jayna Hefford (1977), Pierre Poilievre (1979), Mélanie Joly (1979), and Victor Davis (1964).

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