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Sangoulé Lamizana

1916 - 2005

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Aboubakar Sangoulé Lamizana (31 January 1916 – 26 May 2005) was an Upper Voltese 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 142,102 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Sangoulé Lamizana is the 9,254th most popular politician (up from 10,521st in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Burkina Faso (up from 7th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Burkinabe Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 9,254 out of 15,577Before him are Hans Delbrück, Nicolae Văcăroiu, Mwai Kibaki, Anthony Mamo, Henri Konan Bédié, and Sarduri I. After him are Lakshmi Sahgal, Missak Manouchian, Hu Hanmin, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Tufuga Efi, and Erik Scavenius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 117Before him are Edmundo Suárez, Julian Rotter, Arno Peters, Zail Singh, Walter Cronkite, and Harold Robbins. After him are Ruth Handler, Ramón José Velásquez, Morris West, Halil İnalcık, Jackie Gleason, and Iosif Shklovsky. Among people deceased in 2005, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 108Before him are Kocheril R. Narayanan, John Mills, Andre Gunder Frank, George P. Cosmatos, Ghena Dimitrova, and Maurice Hilleman. After him are Polina Astakhova, Eddie Albert, Jimmy Smith, Lazar Berman, James Doohan, and Vizma Belševica.

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In Burkina Faso

Among people born in Burkina Faso, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 6 out of 38Before him are Thomas Sankara (1949), Blaise Compaoré (1951), Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (1957), Michel Kafando (1942), and Maurice Yaméogo (1921). After him are Saye Zerbo (1932), Philippe Ouédraogo (1945), Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo (1942), Idrissa Ouédraogo (1954), Gilbert Diendéré (1960), and Yacouba Isaac Zida (1965).

Among POLITICIANS In Burkina Faso

Among politicians born in Burkina Faso, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 6Before him are Thomas Sankara (1949), Blaise Compaoré (1951), Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (1957), Michel Kafando (1942), and Maurice Yaméogo (1921). After him are Saye Zerbo (1932), Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo (1942), Gilbert Diendéré (1960), Yacouba Isaac Zida (1965), Luc-Adolphe Tiao (1954), and Paul Kaba Thieba (1959).