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Paddy Ashdown

1941 - 2018

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Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon (27 February 1941 – 22 December 2018), better known as Paddy Ashdown, was a British politician and diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 to 1999. Internationally, he is recognised for his role as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006, following his vigorous lobbying for military action against Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Ashdown had an interpretership qualification in Mandarin and was fluent in several other languages, including Malay, German, French and Bosnian. After serving as a Royal Marine and Special Boat Service officer and as an intelligence officer in the UK security services, Ashdown was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Yeovil in 1983 before retiring in 2001. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paddy Ashdown is the 14,605th most popular politician (up from 15,526th in 2019), the 635th most popular biography from India (up from 704th in 2019) and the 186th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Paddy Ashdown ranks 14,605 out of 19,576. Before him are Elsa Laula Renberg, Motiur Rahman Nizami, Clifford Husbands, Trpimir II of Croatia, Ottokar I of Styria, and Knud Kristensen. After him are László Kovács, Stephen Miller, Manuel Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar, Kalpana Datta, François Chabot, and Seaxburh of Wessex.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Paddy Ashdown ranks 405. Before him are Peter Bonetti, Ole Ritter, Francisco Jara, Kazuo Imanishi, John Steel, and Laisenia Qarase. After him are Kurt Raab, Trish Van Devere, Derek Bell, Hans-Georg Reimann, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and François Weyergans. Among people deceased in 2018, Paddy Ashdown ranks 327. Before him are Luigi Radice, Lindy Remigino, Barys Kit, Fadil Vokrri, Clint Walker, and Aureliano Bolognesi. After him are Shuhrat Abbosov, Adolf Grünbaum, István Géczi, John Julius Norwich, Warwick Estevam Kerr, and Alexander Zakharchenko.

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In India

Among people born in India, Paddy Ashdown ranks 635 out of 1,861. Before him are Mary Boyce (1920), S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1946), Saif Ali Khan (1970), Saadat Hasan Manto (1912), Madhuri Dixit (1967), and Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928). After him are Kamala Nehru (1899), Jackie Shroff (1957), Pingali Venkayya (1876), Narayan Rao (1755), Ram Charan (1985), and Arbaaz Khan (1967).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Paddy Ashdown ranks 186. Before him are Harihara I (1336), Palden Thondup Namgyal (1923), Purushottam Das Tandon (1882), Meira Kumar (1945), Bhagwan Das (1869), and Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1937). After him are V. N. Janaki (1923), Kiran Bedi (1949), Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884), Govind Ballabh Pant (1887), and Wasim Sajjad (1941).

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