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Tony Blair

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Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held various shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994. Blair was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007, and was special envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East from 2007 to 2015. He is the second-longest-serving prime minister in post-war British history after Margaret Thatcher, the longest-serving Labour politician to have held the office, and the first and only person to date to lead the party to three consecutive general election victories. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tony Blair is the 1,298th most popular politician (down from 794th in 2019), the 344th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 187th in 2019) and the 84th most popular British Politician.

Tony Blair was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. He is most famous for leading the UK into the Iraq War in 2003.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tony Blair ranks 1,298 out of 19,576. Before him are Aurelia Cotta, H. D. Deve Gowda, Alaeddin Pasha, Paul-Henri Spaak, Aristide Briand, and Sahle-Work Zewde. After him are Decebalus, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Frederick VIII of Denmark, Edward the Elder, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Artemisia I of Caria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Tony Blair ranks 12. Before him are Herta Müller, Jerome Powell, Jeffrey Epstein, Steve Bannon, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and Ahmad Shah Massoud. After him are Pierce Brosnan, David Morse, Kim Basinger, John Malkovich, Isabelle Huppert, and Richard Clayderman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tony Blair ranks 344 out of 8,785. Before him are John Keats (1795), Bede (672), John Davis (1550), Jane Hawking (1944), Frederick Sanger (1918), and Keith Richards (1943). After him are Edward the Elder (871), Millvina Dean (1912), Julie Andrews (1935), Stan Laurel (1890), Lady Godiva (990), and Syd Barrett (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Tony Blair ranks 84. Before him are Frederick North, Lord North (1732), Anthony Eden (1897), Edmund Ironside (993), James Connolly (1868), Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), and Benjamin Disraeli (1804). After him are Edward the Elder (871), Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803), Richard of Cornwall (1209), Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), David Lloyd George (1863), and Clement Attlee (1883).

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