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Sangoulé Lamizana

1916 - 2005

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Aboubakar Sangoulé Lamizana (31 January 1916 – 26 May 2005) was an Upper Voltan military officer who served as the President of Upper Volta (since 1984 renamed Burkina Faso), in power from 3 January 1966, to 25 November 1980. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sangoulé Lamizana has received more than 150,507 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Sangoulé Lamizana is the 10,165th most popular politician (down from 9,227th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Côte d'Ivoire (down from 6th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ivorian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 10,165 out of 19,576. Before him are Kamehameha V, Su Tseng-chang, Bobby Jones, Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Audoin, and Max Vasmer. After him are Burnaburiash I, Fa of Xia, John Komnenos, Herman, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel, Nicolae Rădescu, and Kumba Ialá.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 124. Before him are Wilhelm Batz, Jacques Georges, Harold Robbins, Walter Cronkite, James Herriot, and Anthony Dawson. After him are Unica Zürn, Lars Korvald, Budd Boetticher, Morris West, Halil İnalcık, and Ingrid Vang Nyman. Among people deceased in 2005, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 117. Before him are Frits Philips, Romano Scarpa, John Mills, Teresa Wright, István Nyers, and Svatopluk Pluskal. After him are Tonino Delli Colli, Vasco Gonçalves, James Doohan, Andre Norton, Kevin Hagen, and Zoran Mušič.

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In Côte d'Ivoire

Among people born in Côte d'Ivoire, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 9 out of 140. Before him are Didier Drogba (1978), Laurent Gbagbo (1945), Henri Konan Bédié (1934), Alpha Blondy (1953), Yaya Touré (1983), and Robert Guéï (1941). After him are Ahmadou Kourouma (1927), Jean-Pierre Kutwa (1945), Charles Konan Banny (1942), Kolo Touré (1981), Basile Boli (1967), and Laurent Pokou (1947).

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Among POLITICIANS In Côte d'Ivoire

Among politicians born in Côte d'Ivoire, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 6. Before him are Alassane Ouattara (1942), Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905), Laurent Gbagbo (1945), Henri Konan Bédié (1934), and Robert Guéï (1941). After him are Charles Konan Banny (1942), Daniel Kablan Duncan (1943), Bernard Binlin Dadié (1916), Amadou Gon Coulibaly (1959), Seydou Diarra (1933), and Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio (1951).

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