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Stephen Harper

1959 - Today

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Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. He is to date the only prime minister to have come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, serving as the party's first leader from 2004 to 2015. Since 2018, he has also been the chairman of the International Democracy Union. Harper studied economics, earning a bachelor's degree in 1985 and a master's degree in 1991 at the University of Calgary. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stephen Harper is the 8,202nd most popular politician (up from 10,122nd in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Canada (up from 165th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Canadian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Stephen Harper ranks 8,202 out of 19,576Before him are Joan of Valois, Countess of Hainaut, András Hegedüs, Anthemius, Frederick I, Elector Palatine, Infante Alfonso of Spain, and Fazlollah Zahedi. After him are Ziyad al-Nakhalah, Nguyễn Minh Triết, Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken, Fatma Sultan, and Deng Yingchao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Stephen Harper ranks 108Before him are Marcia Gay Harden, Juha Kankkunen, Michael P. Anderson, Richie Sambora, Paul McGrath, and Thomas F. Wilson. After him are Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Helmuth Duckadam, Majed Abdullah, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Patricia Clarkson, and László Kövér.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Stephen Harper ranks 142 out of 1,622Before him are Rocky Johnson (1944), Tommy Burns (1881), William Osler (1849), Louis Riel (1844), Ryan Gosling (1980), and Rachel McAdams (1978). After him are Paul Martin (1938), William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874), Robin Sharma (1965), Denys Arcand (1941), Brian Tracy (1944), and Antonine Maillet (1929).

Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, Stephen Harper ranks 15Before him are Marie-Louise Meilleur (1880), Mark Carney (1965), Jean Chrétien (1934), Bonar Law (1858), Tommy Burns (1881), and Louis Riel (1844). After him are Paul Martin (1938), William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874), Nancy Greene Raine (1943), Brian Mulroney (1939), Wilfrid Laurier (1841), and Kim Campbell (1947).