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Shukri Ghanem

1942 - 2012

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Shukri Mohammed Ghanem (Arabic: شكري محمد إمحمد غانم 9 October 1942 – 29 April 2012) was a Libyan politician who was the General Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya (prime minister) from June 2003 until March 2006 when, in the first major government re-shuffle in over a decade, he was replaced by his deputy, Baghdadi Mahmudi. Ghanem subsequently served as the Minister of Oil until 2011. On 29 April 2012, his body was found floating on the New Danube, Vienna.Early in the Libyan Civil War he reportedly "fled", but after the city of Ra's Lanuf was recaptured by pro-government forces, AP reported on 13 March that he asked Eni SpA for help with putting out a fire at the Ra's Lanuf Refinery. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shukri Ghanem has received more than 81,926 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Shukri Ghanem is the 12,210th most popular politician (up from 12,359th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Libya (down from 39th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Libyan Politician.

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  • 82k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Shukri Ghanems by language

Over the past year Shukri Ghanem has had the most page views in the with 9,507 views, followed by Arabic (5,587), and French (3,116). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (135.52%), Galician (70.05%), and Egyptian Arabic (65.29%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shukri Ghanem ranks 12,210 out of 19,576. Before him are Ivan Shuvalov, Qian Qichen, Gérard Larcher, Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, Henry Pottinger, and Bernhard Hammer. After him are Neferkare, ninth dynasty, Nikolai Podvoisky, Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, Philaretos Brachamios, Erling Skakke, and George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Shukri Ghanem ranks 323. Before him are Willis Reed, Bo Johansson, Jon Finch, Al Jardine, Eduard Markarov, and Ghada al-Samman. After him are Irm Hermann, Toyohiro Akiyama, Bill Ivy, Erika Blanc, Chantal Goya, and Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo. Among people deceased in 2012, Shukri Ghanem ranks 203. Before him are Luis Alberto Spinetta, Roald Aas, Jon Finch, Mustafa Ould Salek, Bob Anderson, and Fang Lizhi. After him are Ramaz Shengelia, Marvin Hamlisch, Ann Rutherford, Dom Mintoff, Paavo Berglund, and Mahmoud El-Gohary.

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In Libya

Among people born in Libya, Shukri Ghanem ranks 44 out of 76. Before him are Mohammed Magariaf (1940), Lacydes of Cyrene (-300), Mutassim Gaddafi (1974), Abdullah Senussi (1949), Muhammad az-Zanati (1944), and Mahmoud Jibril (1952). After him are Abdurrahim El-Keib (1950), Abdullah al-Thani (1954), Ali Zeidan (1950), Arcesilaus I of Cyrene (-637), Mohamed al-Menfi (1976), and Arcesilaus IV of Cyrene (-500).

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Among POLITICIANS In Libya

Among politicians born in Libya, Shukri Ghanem ranks 20. Before him are Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh (1958), Mohammed Magariaf (1940), Mutassim Gaddafi (1974), Abdullah Senussi (1949), Muhammad az-Zanati (1944), and Mahmoud Jibril (1952). After him are Abdurrahim El-Keib (1950), Abdullah al-Thani (1954), Ali Zeidan (1950), Arcesilaus I of Cyrene (-637), Mohamed al-Menfi (1976), and Arcesilaus IV of Cyrene (-500).

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