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Simonetta Sommaruga

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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 555,095 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Simonetta Sommaruga is the 7,187th most popular politician (down from 6,421st in 2019), the 188th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 167th in 2019) and the 24th 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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Simonetta Sommaruga ranks 7,187 out of 19,576. Before her are Lin Xin, Raginpert, Yi Yin, Ewa Kopacz, François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, and Minervina. After her are Bernardo Arévalo, Alexander Gauland, Nikare, Sobekhotep III, Marguerite of Lorraine, and Praskovia Saltykova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Simonetta Sommaruga ranks 79. Before her are Gazebo, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Igor Belanov, Richard Ramirez, Laurent Fignon, and Steve Vai. After her are Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Hiroshi Amano, Yannick Noah, Leos Carax, Vince Clarke, and Nicoletta Braschi.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Simonetta Sommaruga ranks 188 out of 1,015. Before her are Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (1968), Joanna of Pfirt (1300), DJ BoBo (1968), Jonas Furrer (1805), Hans Martin Sutermeister (1907), and Billy Meier (1937). After her are Joachim Raff (1822), Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886), Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (1718), Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Anjou (1420), Pietro Lombardo (1435), and Roberto Di Matteo (1970).

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Among POLITICIANS In Switzerland

Among politicians born in Switzerland, Simonetta Sommaruga ranks 24. Before her are Ueli Maurer (1950), Viola Amherd (1962), Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (1968), Joanna of Pfirt (1300), Jonas Furrer (1805), and Hans Martin Sutermeister (1907). After her are Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886), Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Anjou (1420), Leonardo Conti (1900), Alfred Escher (1819), Guy Parmelin (1959), and Ruth Dreifuss (1940).

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