POLITICIAN

Gilles Duceppe

1947 - Today

Photo of Gilles Duceppe

Icon of person Gilles Duceppe

Gilles Duceppe (French pronunciation: [ʒil dzysɛp]; born July 22, 1947) is a Canadian retired politician, proponent of the Quebec sovereignty movement and former leader of the federal political party, Bloc Québécois. He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for over 20 years and was the leader of the sovereigntist Bloc Québécois for 15 years in three stints: 1996, 1997–2011 and in 2015. He was Leader of the Official Opposition in the Parliament of Canada from March 17, 1997, to June 1, 1997. He resigned as party leader after the 2011 election, in which he lost his own seat to New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Hélène Laverdière and his party suffered a heavy defeat; however, he returned four years later to lead the party into the 2015 election. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gilles Duceppe is the 17,267th most popular politician (down from 16,936th in 2019), the 698th most popular biography from Canada (down from 644th in 2019) and the 68th most popular Canadian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Gilles Duceppe by language

Loading...

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gilles Duceppe ranks 17,267 out of 19,576. Before him are Aleksy Antkiewicz, Marina Solodkin, Mao Chi-kuo, Eduardo Riedel, Jean Charest, and Igor Shuvalov. After him are Carmen Calvo Poyato, Balakh Sher Mazari, Sumitra Mahajan, Amadou Sanogo, Hans-Peter Friedrich, and Lyubov Kozyreva.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Gilles Duceppe ranks 798. Before him are Martyn Poliakoff, Gerardo Vera, Zoltán Melis, Heikki Ikola, Ching Wan Tang, and Stephen R. Donaldson. After him are Stuart Baird, Juan Sol, George Alec Effinger, Moses Nagamootoo, Bryan Sykes, and Tom Carper.

Others Born in 1947

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Gilles Duceppe ranks 698 out of 1,622. Before him are Tara Strong (1973), Deryck Whibley (1980), Shalom Harlow (1973), Horace Gwynne (1912), Jean Charest (1958), and Carly Rae Jepsen (1985). After him are Daniel David Palmer (1845), Santino Marella (1974), Daniel Powter (1971), Shenae Grimes (1989), Skip Spence (1946), and Brett Hull (1964).

Others born in Canada

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, Gilles Duceppe ranks 68. Before him are Ken Dryden (1947), Tom Mulcair (1954), Stéphane Dion (1955), Ted Lindsay (1925), Jennifer Granholm (1959), and Jean Charest (1958). After him are Beattie Ramsay (1895), S. I. Hayakawa (1906), Hazel McCallion (1921), Joseph Albert Sullivan (1901), Nellie McClung (1873), and Rob Ford (1969).

Canadian born Politicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous