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Sahle-Work Zewde

1950 - Today

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Sahle-Work Zewde (Amharic: ሣህለ ወርቅ ዘውዴ, born 21 February 1950) is an Ethiopian politician and diplomat who served as the 5th president of Ethiopia from October 2018 to October 2024, the first woman to hold the office. She was elected as president unanimously by members of the Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 25 October 2018. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sahle-Work Zewde has received more than 952,819 page views. Her biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Sahle-Work Zewde is the 4,510th most popular politician (down from 4,481st in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Ethiopia (down from 10th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Ethiopian Politician.

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  • 950k

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  • 60.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sahle-Work Zewde ranks 4,510 out of 19,576Before her are Emperor Xianzong of Tang, Emperor Seinei, Treniota, Charles III, Duke of Parma, Arkan, and François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville. After her are Phocion, Pratibha Patil, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Atsiz, Al-Muazzam Turanshah, and Milada Horáková.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Sahle-Work Zewde ranks 63Before her are Alan Silvestri, Mark Spitz, Cybill Shepherd, Bjarne Stroustrup, Marianne Bachmeier, and Amos Gitai. After her are John Candy, David Graf, Chantal Akerman, Chen Shui-bian, Helen Clark, and Grigory Sokolov.

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In Ethiopia

Among people born in Ethiopia, Sahle-Work Zewde ranks 12 out of 105Before her are Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937), Menelik I (-954), Onuphrius (320), Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia (1895), Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (1946), and Gebre Mesqel Lalibela (1200). After her are Abdullah ibn Ja'far (650), Girma Wolde-Giorgis (1924), Tewodros II (1818), Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506), Meles Zenawi (1955), and Mulatu Teshome (1955).

Among POLITICIANS In Ethiopia

Among politicians born in Ethiopia, Sahle-Work Zewde ranks 9Before her are Menelik II (1844), Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937), Menelik I (-954), Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia (1895), Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (1946), and Gebre Mesqel Lalibela (1200). After her are Girma Wolde-Giorgis (1924), Tewodros II (1818), Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506), Meles Zenawi (1955), Mulatu Teshome (1955), and Kaleb of Axum (500).