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Alex Salmond

1954 - 2024

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Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond ( SAM-ənd; 31 December 1954 – 12 October 2024) was a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014. A prominent figure in the Scottish nationalist movement, he was Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) on two occasions, from 1990 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2014. He then served as leader of the Alba Party from 2021 until his death in 2024. A graduate of the University of St Andrews, he worked as an economist in the Scottish Office, and later, the Royal Bank of Scotland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alex Salmond is the 13,509th most popular politician (up from 14,836th in 2019), the 3,254th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,753rd in 2019) and the 454th most popular British Politician.

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Among politicians, Alex Salmond ranks 13,509 out of 19,576. Before him are Jorge Montt, Olene Walker, Titus Lucretius Tricipitinus, Philip Simonsson, Paweł Adamowicz, and Marc Garneau. After him are Meresankh II, Pierre Aubert, Wasashatta, Jagdeep Dhankhar, Christiane Taubira, and Rachid Sfar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Alex Salmond ranks 265. Before him are Rekha, Torbjörn Nilsson, Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf, Kazuhiko Inoue, Sergei Sidorsky, and Jean Bourgain. After him are Jesús María Satrústegui, David Paich, Igor Krutoy, Ivo Van Damme, François Van der Elst, and Sam Allardyce. Among people deceased in 2024, Alex Salmond ranks 295. Before him are Pete Rose, Vic Seixas, Mark Damon, Vaino Väljas, Giacomo Losi, and Barbara Rush. After him are Pascal Lainé, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, Christopher Priest, Levan Tediashvili, Anita Bryant, and Ruth Westheimer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alex Salmond ranks 3,255 out of 8,785. Before him are N. E. Brown (1849), Stella McCartney (1971), Tim Pigott-Smith (1946), Jamie Oliver (1975), Thelma Hopkins (1936), and Kathleen Kenyon (1906). After him are Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724), Samuel Morland (1625), Anthony Caro (1924), Nick Rhodes (1962), Anthony R. Hunter (1943), and John Taylor (1933).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Alex Salmond ranks 454. Before him are Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812), George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827), Walter Rutherford (1857), Richard Cobden (1804), Ida of Bernicia (450), and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (877). After him are Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400), Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1435), William Huskisson (1770), Constance Markievicz (1868), Enoch Powell (1912), and Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443).

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