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Biljana Plavšić

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Biljana Plavšić (Serbian Cyrillic: Биљана Плавшић; born 7 July 1930) is a Bosnian Serb former politician, university professor and scientist who served as President of Republika Srpska and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for her role in the Bosnian War. Plavšić was indicted in 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes committed during the Bosnian War. She plea-bargained with the ICTY and was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2003, to be served in a Swedish prison. She was released on 27 October 2009 after serving two-thirds of her sentence. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Biljana Plavšić is the 2,573rd most popular politician (down from 2,283rd in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (down from 15th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Politician.

Biljana Plavšić is most famous for being a Serbian politician and the first woman to serve as president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Biljana Plavšić ranks 2,573 out of 19,576. Before her are Empress Wanrong, Shoshenq II, Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria, Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Princess Caroline of Great Britain, and Tudḫaliya IV. After her are Andrew III of Hungary, Henry V, Count of Luxembourg, Vasily Blokhin, Miloš Obrenović, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and Fumio Kishida.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Biljana Plavšić ranks 54. Before her are Harold Pinter, Immanuel Wallerstein, Gary Becker, Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Bernie Ecclestone, and Akira Suzuki. After her are Tippi Hedren, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lorin Maazel, Félix Guattari, Theodore Edgar McCarrick, and Robert Evans.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Biljana Plavšić ranks 16 out of 375. Before her are Goran Bregović (1950), Zoran Đinđić (1952), Tvrtko I of Bosnia (1338), Vinko Puljić (1945), Slobodan Praljak (1945), and Lala Mustafa Pasha (1500). After her are Dražen Dalipagić (1951), Milorad Dodik (1959), Ivica Osim (1941), Boris Tadić (1958), Nedeljko Čabrinović (1895), and Vahid Halilhodžić (1952).

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Among POLITICIANS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among politicians born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Biljana Plavšić ranks 8. Before her are Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (1505), Alija Izetbegović (1925), Ante Pavelić (1889), Zoran Đinđić (1952), Tvrtko I of Bosnia (1338), and Lala Mustafa Pasha (1500). After her are Milorad Dodik (1959), Boris Tadić (1958), Vukašin of Serbia (1320), Ante Marković (1924), Haris Silajdžić (1945), and Vojislav Šešelj (1954).

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