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Harriet Harman

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Harriet Ruth Harman, Baroness Harman, (born 30 July 1950), is a British politician and solicitor who served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Chair of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2015 and Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal from 2007 to 2010. She also briefly served as Leader of the Opposition in 2010 and 2015 after the resignations of Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband respectively. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Camberwell and Peckham (formerly Peckham) from 1982 to 2024, during which time she held various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions, and was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2024. Born in London to a doctor and a barrister, Harman was privately educated at St Paul's Girls' School before going on to study politics at the University of York. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harriet Harman is the 16,831st most popular politician (up from 16,951st in 2019), the 5,176th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,298th in 2019) and the 608th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Harriet Harman ranks 16,831 out of 19,576. Before her are Errol Barrow, Dan Crenshaw, David Malpass, Werner Kogler, Samuel Plimsoll, and Mercedes Aráoz. After her are John N. Mitchell, Emmanuel Nadingar, Walter Forward, Mike Mansfield, Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, and Amadou Gon Coulibaly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Harriet Harman ranks 576. Before her are Sheila Young, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Chen Chu, Eddie Hazel, Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, and Rolf Rüssmann. After her are Blagoja Georgievski, Ion Dumitru, Miguel Arias Cañete, Lansana Kouyaté, Gerd Zewe, and Mac Wilkins.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harriet Harman ranks 5,178 out of 8,785. Before her are Tom Bridger (1934), Simone Ashley (1995), Samuel Plimsoll (1824), Stanley Sadie (1930), Heather Angel (1909), and David Hampshire (1917). After her are David Mitchell (1969), Paul Scott (1920), Gina McKee (1964), John Curry (1949), Bernice Rubens (1923), and Dawn French (1957).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Harriet Harman ranks 608. Before her are Rhodri Morgan (1939), Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith (1883), William Dod (1867), John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon (1873), Dan Crenshaw (1984), and Samuel Plimsoll (1824). After her are Reginald McKenna (1863), George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823), Adela Pankhurst (1885), Princess Claire of Belgium (1974), Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe (1899), and Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (1762).

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