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Norman Manley

1893 - 1969

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Norman Washington Manley (4 July 1893 – 2 September 1969) was a Jamaican statesman who served as the first and only Premier of Jamaica. A Rhodes Scholar, Manley became one of Jamaica's leading lawyers in the 1920s. Manley was an advocate of universal suffrage, which was granted by the British colonial government to the colony in 1944. Encouraged by Osmond Theodore Fairclough, who had joined forces with the brothers Frank and Ken Hill, Hedley P. Jacobs and others in 1938, he helped to launch the People's National Party which later was affiliated to the Trade Union Congress and even later the National Workers Union. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Norman Manley is the 13,730th most popular politician (up from 18,424th in 2024), the 33rd most popular biography from Jamaica (up from 90th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Jamaican Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Norman Manley ranks 13,730 out of 19,576. Before him are Mikhail Rodzianko, Daniel Morgan, Guido Gonzaga, Robert of Vermandois, Rudolf IV, Margrave of Baden-Pforzheim, and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez. After him are Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, Iaret, Aymen Benabderrahmane, Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Henri François d'Aguesseau, and Segismundo Moret.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Norman Manley ranks 195. Before him are Donald Lippincott, Aleksandr Gauk, George Hodgson, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Ernst Grünfeld, and Marcel Minnaert. After him are Christopher Kelk Ingold, Marguerite Broquedis, Chang Taek-sang, I. A. Richards, Joseph Alzin, and Konstantin Muraviev. Among people deceased in 1969, Norman Manley ranks 153. Before him are Georges Ronsse, Leonardo Cilaurren, Bill Ivy, Filipp Oktyabrsky, Zinaida Aksentyeva, and Paul Chambers. After him are Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Rafael Osuna, Margarita Xirgu, Giorgio Chiavacci, Albert Hill, and Fred Alexander.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Norman Manley ranks 33 out of 189. Before him are Sean Paul (1973), Mary Seacole (1805), DJ Kool Herc (1955), Bunny Wailer (1947), Desmond Dekker (1941), and Burning Spear (1945). After him are Veronica Campbell-Brown (1982), Prince Buster (1938), Ziggy Marley (1968), Martine Beswick (1941), Portia Simpson-Miller (1945), and Lennox Miller (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In Jamaica

Among politicians born in Jamaica, Norman Manley ranks 2. Before him are Stamford Raffles (1781). After him are Portia Simpson-Miller (1945), Michael Manley (1924), Kenneth O. Hall (1941), Andrew Holness (1972), Alexander Bustamante (1884), Bruce Golding (1947), Hugh Shearer (1923), Howard Cooke (1915), Donald Sangster (1911), and Lisa Hanna (1975).

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