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Jacques Diouf

1938 - 2019

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Jacques Diouf (1 August 1938 – 17 August 2019) was a Senegalese diplomat and the Director-General of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from January 1994 to 31 December 2011. He died on 17 August 2019, 16 days after his 81st birthday. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Diouf is the 71st most popular diplomat (up from 73rd in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Senegal (up from 31st in 2019) and the most popular Senegalese Diplomat.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Jacques Diouf ranks 71 out of 90Before him are Ri Yong-ho, Paul Schmidt, Filippo Grandi, Edward M. House, Seán Lester, and Yasushi Akashi. After him are Max Jakobson, Bajrakitiyabha, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, Thomas A. Shannon Jr., and Wendy Sherman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jacques Diouf ranks 413Before him are Millie Perkins, Mahmoud El-Gohary, András Balczó, Tibor Csernai, Ahmet Ayık, and Teresa Stratas. After him are Viktor Kosichkin, Halina Górecka, Diana Muldaur, Ajdar Ismailov, Friedhelm Konietzka, and Marcel Artelesa. Among people deceased in 2019, Jacques Diouf ranks 353Before him are Mary Oliver, Norbert Eder, Emiliano Sala, Josef Feistmantl, Imre Varga, and Fernando Roldán. After him are Goo Hara, Asunción Balaguer, Nikolai Gorbachev, Raymond Bellot, Jeremy Kemp, and Egisto Pandolfini.

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In Senegal

Among people born in Senegal, Jacques Diouf ranks 23 out of 138Before him are Théodore-Adrien Sarr (1936), Souleymane Sané (1961), Mame Madior Boye (1940), Safi Faye (1943), Mamadou Dia (1910), and Ba Mamadou Mbaré (1946). After him are Mahammed Dionne (1959), Aminata Sow Fall (1941), Idrissa Gueye (1989), Didier Raoult (1952), Fatma Samoura (1962), and Aliou Cissé (1976).

Among DIPLOMATS In Senegal

Among diplomats born in Senegal, Jacques Diouf ranks 1