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Michel Aoun

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Michel Naim Aoun (Arabic: ميشال نعيم عون, Lebanese Arabic: [miˈʃæːl naˈʕiːm ʕawn]; born 30 September 1933) is a Lebanese politician and former general who served as the 13th president of Lebanon from 31 October 2016 to 30 October 2022. Born in Haret Hreik to a Maronite Christian family, Aoun joined the Military Academy in 1955 and graduated as an artillery officer in the Lebanese Army. In 1984, he became the youngest Commander of the Army, at the age of 49. On 22 September 1988, during the fourth phase of the Lebanese Civil War, the departing President Amine Gemayel appointed him as the interim Prime Minister of a military government after the parliament failed to elect a new president, and dismissed the current government headed by the Acting Prime Minister Selim Hoss. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Aoun is the 1,400th most popular politician (down from 1,181st in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 8th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Lebanese Politician.

Michel Aoun is a Lebanese politician who was elected president of Lebanon in 1998. He is also the founder of the Free Patriotic Movement.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Michel Aoun ranks 1,400 out of 19,576. Before him are Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, Ghazan, Otto of Bavaria, and Chulalongkorn. After him are Charles II, Archduke of Austria, Engelbert Dollfuss, Andronikos I Komnenos, Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah, Cleopatra IV of Egypt, and 2nd Dalai Lama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Michel Aoun ranks 19. Before him are Donald Sutherland, Kenzaburō Ōe, Faisal II of Iraq, Arvo Pärt, Isao Takahata, and Julie Andrews. After him are Theo Angelopoulos, David Prowse, John Saxon, Ágota Kristóf, Erich von Däniken, and David Harvey.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Michel Aoun ranks 10 out of 145. Before him are Dido (-879), Pope Sisinnius (650), Pope Constantine (664), Keanu Reeves (1964), Ahab (-900), and Ulpian (170). After him are Hassan Nasrallah (1960), Charbel Makhlouf (1828), Rafic Hariri (1944), Fairuz (1935), Hiram I (-1000), and Christina of Bolsena (210).

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Among POLITICIANS In Lebanon

Among politicians born in Lebanon, Michel Aoun ranks 4. Before him are Severus Alexander (208), Dido (-879), and Ahab (-900). After him are Hassan Nasrallah (1960), Rafic Hariri (1944), Hiram I (-1000), Émile Lahoud (1936), Najib Mikati (1955), Bachir Gemayel (1947), Michel Suleiman (1948), and Maria of Montferrat (1192).

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