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Tessa Jowell

1947 - 2018

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Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell, (née Palmer; 17 September 1947 – 12 May 2018) was a British Labour Party politician and life peer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood, previously Dulwich, from 1992 to 2015. Jowell held a number of major government ministerial positions, as well as opposition appointments, during this period. She served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2001 to 2007 and Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2009 to 2010. A member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she was also Minister for the Olympics (2005–10) and Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London until September 2012, resigning after the London Olympic Games. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tessa Jowell is the 10,928th most popular politician (up from 18,699th in 2019), the 2,464th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 6,847th in 2019) and the 383rd most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tessa Jowell ranks 10,928 out of 19,576Before her are Eutharic, Ptolemy Apion, Salvador Valdés Mesa, John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Quintus Lollius Urbicus, and Conrad I, Duke of Carinthia. After her are Charibert of Laon, Zeng Qinghong, José Giral, Aulus Cornelius Palma Frontonianus, Óscar R. Benavides, and Aemilia Lepida.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Tessa Jowell ranks 301Before her are Meiko Kaji, Mick Box, Bobby Kimball, Julie Driscoll Tippetts, Hristo Bonev, and Yūko Tsushima. After her are Michel Berger, Carlos Lopes, Robertino Loreti, Ann Hui, Sammy Hagar, and Aleksandr Viktorenko. Among people deceased in 2018, Tessa Jowell ranks 177Before her are Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, Robert Indiana, Zhores Medvedev, Moshé Mizrahi, Károly Palotai, and Choi Eun-hee. After her are Walter Mischel, Henri Namphy, Tommy Lawrence, M. Karunanidhi, Roger Bannister, and Lydia Clarke.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tessa Jowell ranks 2,465 out of 8,785Before her are Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), Sebastian Coe (1956), Francis Beaumont (1584), Carl Palmer (1950), Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1758), and Martin Fowler (1963). After her are Albert Austin (1881), William Smith (1790), Michelle Fairley (1964), John Robertson (1953), John Aubrey (1626), and Divina Galica (1944).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Tessa Jowell ranks 383Before her are Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots (1404), Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883), Mark of Cornwall (480), Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563), Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham (1670), and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516). After her are Demetrios Petrokokkinos (1878), Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874), Barbara Castle (1910), Andrew Moray (1265), Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455), and Sadiq Khan (1970).