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Sangoulé Lamizana

1916 - 2005

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Aboubakar Sangoulé Lamizana (31 January 1916 – 26 May 2005) was an Upper Voltan military officer who served as the President of Upper Volta (since 1984 renamed Burkina Faso), in power from 3 January 1966, to 25 November 1980. He held the additional position of Prime Minister from 8 February 1974, to 7 July 1978. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sangoulé Lamizana is the 9,363rd most popular politician (up from 10,164th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Côte d'Ivoire and the 5th most popular Ivorian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 9,363 out of 19,576Before him are Ida of Formbach-Ratelnberg, Archidamus IV, Luigi Longo, Toktu of Bulgaria, Café Filho, and Argishti II. After him are Arete, Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia, Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg, Enric Prat de la Riba, Godepert, and August Eigruber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 101Before him are Pérez Prado, Chiang Wei-kuo, Luis Corvalán, Jurij Brězan, Mercedes McCambridge, and Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann. After him are Edmundo Suárez, Zein Al-Sharaf Talal, Forrest J Ackerman, Helmut Gröttrup, Ivo Lola Ribar, and James B. Donovan. Among people deceased in 2005, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 97Before him are Alberto Lattuada, John Mills, Vincent Gigante, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, John DeLorean, and Johnny Carson. After him are István Nyers, Teresa Wright, Eddie Albert, Hermann Bondi, Monica Zetterlund, and Annette Stroyberg.

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In Côte d'Ivoire

Among people born in Côte d'Ivoire, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 9 out of 140Before him are Laurent Gbagbo (1945), Didier Drogba (1978), Jean-Pierre Kutwa (1945), Alpha Blondy (1953), Yaya Touré (1983), and Henri Konan Bédié (1934). After him are Robert Guéï (1941), Bernard Agré (1926), Ahmadou Kourouma (1927), Charles Konan Banny (1942), Kolo Touré (1981), and Basile Boli (1967).

Among POLITICIANS In Côte d'Ivoire

Among politicians born in Côte d'Ivoire, Sangoulé Lamizana ranks 5Before him are Alassane Ouattara (1942), Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905), Laurent Gbagbo (1945), and Henri Konan Bédié (1934). After him are Robert Guéï (1941), Charles Konan Banny (1942), Daniel Kablan Duncan (1943), Bernard Binlin Dadié (1916), Seydou Diarra (1933), Amadou Gon Coulibaly (1959), and Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio (1951).