Marc Ravalomanana

Marc Ravalomanana is a Malagasy politician who served as the sixth President of Madagascar from 2002 to 2009. Born into a farming Merina family in Imerinkasinina, near the capital city of Antananarivo, Ravalomanana first rose to prominence as the founder and CEO of the vast dairy conglomerate TIKO, later launching successful wholesaler MAGRO and several additional companies.

12 December 1949

Born on the same birth date (12 December 1949): Bill Nighy

Born on the same birth day (12 December): Adolf Bötticher • Arturo Barrios • Daniel Agger • Dean Macey • Georgios Theodoridis • Gustave Flaubert • Haywood Jeffires • Heiner Flassbeck • Helen Frankenthaler • John Sandfield Macdonald • Joseph O. Shelby • Lonah Chemtai Salpeter • Nixon Chepseba • Orlando Hudson • Sammy Korir • Sharad Pawar • Tony Williams (drummer) • Wilson Kipketer

Born in the same month (December 1949): Adrian Belew • Bill Nighy • Billy Gibbons • Brian Roper (economist) • David A. Cherry • Heather Hallett, Baroness Hallett • James Rivière • Jerry Coyne • Jock Stirrup • Joel Brooks • Linda Barnes (writer) • Linda Creed • Maurice Gibb • Mickey Thomas (singer) • Nawaz Sharif • Nikolaos Sifounakis • Orna Berry • Randy Neugebauer • Sebastian (singer) • Thomas Sankara • Tom Waits • Yasmin Alibhai-Brown