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Jo Cox

1974 - 2016

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Helen Joanne Cox (née Leadbeater; 22 June 1974 – 16 June 2016) was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour Party. Born in Batley, West Yorkshire, Cox studied Social and Political Sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Working first as a political assistant, she joined the international humanitarian charity Oxfam in 2001, where she became head of policy and advocacy at Oxfam GB in 2005. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Jo Cox is the 18,743rd most popular politician (down from 16,913th in 2024), the 6,854th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,281st in 2019) and the 710th most popular British Politician.

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Among politicians, Jo Cox ranks 18,743 out of 19,576. Before her are Catarina Martins, Pete Stark, Krzysztof Bosak, Thomas Menino, Leonid Volkov, and Jeyhun Bayramov. After her are Sônia Guajajara, Bob Corker, Camelia Macoviciuc-Mihalcea, Jorge Glas, Norbert Rózsa, and Andrea Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Jo Cox ranks 712. Before her are Lars Frölander, Melissa Sagemiller, Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster, Kenneth Perez, Maren Eggert, and Cyril Dessel. After her are Sônia Guajajara, Laura Allen, Marat Basharov, Sergei Gonchar, Daisuke Kishio, and Martin Gerber. Among people deceased in 2016, Jo Cox ranks 607. Before her are Ralph Stanley, Ronnie Corbett, Lonnie Mack, Vasyl Slipak, David Herd, and Rose Mofford. After her are Big Syke, Arsen Pavlov, Sascha Lewandowski, René Marsiglia, Pantelis Pantelidis, and Bahman Golbarnezhad.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jo Cox ranks 6,856 out of 8,785. Before her are Adam Carroll (1982), Charlotte Coleman (1968), Max Brown (1981), Gemma Whelan (1981), Ken MacLeod (1954), and Siobhan Finneran (1966). After her are Jessica Brown Findlay (1989), Joe Calzaghe (1972), Lady Helen Taylor (1964), Aiden McGeady (1986), Ryan Christie (1995), and Rafe Spall (1983).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Jo Cox ranks 710. Before her are Hilary Benn (1953), Priti Patel (1972), Amber Rudd (1963), Charles Kennedy (1959), George Osborne (1971), and Grant Shapps (1968). After her are Shabana Mahmood (1980), Ben Wallace (1970), Michael Gove (1967), Penny Mordaunt (1973), Liam Fox (1961), and Mark Drakeford (1954).

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