The Most Famous
POLITICIANS from French Guiana
This page contains a list of the greatest French Guianese Politicians. The pantheon dataset contains 19,576 Politicians, 2 of which were born in French Guiana. This makes French Guiana the birth place of the 209th most number of Politicians behind Vatican City, and South Sudan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary French Guianese Politicians of all time. This list of famous French Guianese Politicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Félix Éboué (1884 - 1944)
With an HPI of 59.86, Félix Éboué is the most famous French Guianese Politician. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Adolphe Sylvestre Félix Éboué (French: [adɔlf silvɛstʁ feliks ebwe]; 26 December 1884 – 17 May 1944) was a French colonial administrator. He was the first black French man appointed to a high post in the French colonies, when appointed acting governor of Guadeloupe in 1936. As governor of Chad in 1940, he was early and exceptional in supporting Charles de Gaulle's Free French movement, and was influential in the calling and the conduct of the 1944 Brazzaville Conference on colonial reform. He supported educated Africans and placed more in the colonial administration, as well as supporting preservation of African culture. He was the first black person to be buried in the Panthéon in Paris.
2. Christiane Taubira (b. 1952)
With an HPI of 57.69, Christiane Taubira is the 2nd most famous French Guianese Politician. Her biography has been translated into 35 different languages.
Christiane Marie Taubira (French: [kʁistjan maʁi tobiʁa]; born 2 February 1952) is a French politician who served as Minister of Justice of France in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean-Marc Ayrault and Manuel Valls under President François Hollande from 2012 until 2016. She was a member of the National Assembly of France for French Guiana from 1993 to 2012 and member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999. She won the 2022 French People's Primary, winning the right to stand as a "unity left" candidate in the 2022 French presidential election. It was her second bid after the 2002 French presidential election where she failed to qualify to the second round after garnering only 2.32% of the votes in the first round. She dropped out of the race on 2 March 2022 after failing to get enough support to qualify.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as French Guianese politicians born between 1884 and 1952. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living French Guianese politicians include Christiane Taubira. The most famous deceased French Guianese politicians include Félix Éboué.
