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Robin Cook

1946 - 2005

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Robert Finlayson "Robin" Cook (28 February 1946 – 6 August 2005) was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 until his death in 2005 and served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 until 2001 when he was replaced by Jack Straw. He then served as Leader of the House of Commons from 2001 until 2003. Cook studied at the University of Edinburgh before being elected as the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Central in 1974; he switched to the Livingston constituency in 1983. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robin Cook has received more than 1,302,925 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Robin Cook is the 14,538th most popular politician (down from 14,535th in 2019), the 3,588th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,122nd in 2019) and the 479th most popular British Politician.

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  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robin Cook ranks 14,538 out of 19,576. Before him are Jack Straw, Andriy Yermak, Scott Morrison, Viktor Khristenko, Érik Orsenna, and Joseph von Radowitz. After him are Gamal Mubarak, Yan Huiqing, Vernon A. Walters, Bainbridge Colby, Francis Biddle, and K. B. Hedgewar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Robin Cook ranks 502. Before him are Beth Carvalho, Ba Mamadou Mbaré, Hiroshi Fushida, Roy Wood, Jack Straw, and Rhoma Irama. After him are Mary Beth Hurt, Erich Beer, Cornel Penu, Jean Thissen, Edgar Winter, and Mordehai Milgrom. Among people deceased in 2005, Robin Cook ranks 248. Before him are Atef Sedky, Isabella Bashmakova, Richard Burns, Thadée Cisowski, Miriam Rothschild, and Jaime Sin. After him are Kihachi Okamoto, Jean Cayrol, Elisabeth Domitien, John Fiedler, Joe Ranft, and Annemarie Heinrich.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robin Cook ranks 3,588 out of 8,785. Before him are William Stukeley (1687), John Moore (1761), Roy Wood (1946), Richard Bentley (1662), Jack Straw (1946), and Colin Groves (1942). After him are Sam Houser (1972), Ian Livingstone (1949), Shirley Manson (1966), Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900), Laurie Cunningham (1956), and Piers Anthony (1934).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Robin Cook ranks 479. Before him are Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), Hywel Dda (880), William Huskisson (1770), Roy Jenkins (1920), Stafford Cripps (1889), and Jack Straw (1946). After him are John Taylor (1808), John Smith (1938), William Davies Evans (1790), Tony Benn (1925), Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain (1741), and Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905).

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