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Simonetta Sommaruga

1960 - Today

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Simonetta Myriam Sommaruga (born 14 May 1960) is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2010 to 2022. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS), she was President of the Swiss Confederation in 2015 and 2020. A former director of the Consumer Protection Foundation, which merged into the Swiss Alliance of Consumer Organisations in 2010, Sommaruga has headed the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications since 2019, previously heading the Federal Department of Justice and Police (2010–2018). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simonetta Sommaruga has received more than 540,242 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Simonetta Sommaruga is the 6,437th most popular politician (down from 4,008th in 2019), the 167th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 111th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Swiss Politician.

Simonetta Sommaruga is most famous for being the first woman to serve as a Swiss Federal Councillor. She was also the Vice President of the Swiss Confederation and President of the Swiss Council of States.

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.31

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  • 3.01

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Simonetta Sommaruga ranks 6,437 out of 15,577. Before her are Emperor Xingzong of Liao, Euthydemus I, Guo Moruo, Boleslaus III, Duke of Bohemia, Chen Yun, and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein. After her are Jalal al-Din Khan ibn Tokhtamysh, Injong of Goryeo, Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, Johann Trollmann, and Andrei Karlov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Simonetta Sommaruga ranks 67. Before her are John Galliano, Rafael Benítez, Brian Cowen, Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran, Jeremy Clarkson, and Kevin Carter. After her are Pierre Littbarski, Daryl Hannah, Mark Rylance, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Gia Carangi, and Erin Brockovich.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Simonetta Sommaruga ranks 167 out of 876. Before her are Kurt Huber (1893), Charles Gleyre (1806), Charles Bally (1865), Ami Argand (1750), Albert von Kölliker (1817), and Rudolf II, Count of Habsburg (1168). After her are Robert Frank (1924), Grock (1880), Hans Martin Sutermeister (1907), Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886), Jonas Furrer (1805), and Pietro Lombardo (1435).

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Among POLITICIANS In Switzerland

Among politicians born in Switzerland, Simonetta Sommaruga ranks 19. Before her are Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919), Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (1274), Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (1968), Ueli Maurer (1950), and Kurt Huber (1893). After her are Hans Martin Sutermeister (1907), Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886), Jonas Furrer (1805), Leonardo Conti (1900), Alexander Schallenberg (1969), and Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza (1945).

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