1915 - 2002
Abba Solomon Meir Eban ( ; Hebrew: אבא אבן [ˈ(ʔ)aba ˈ(ʔ)even]; born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002) was a South African-born Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages. During his career, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. He was the second ambassador to the United States and the first Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abba Eban has received more than 524,549 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Abba Eban is the 5,782nd most popular politician (up from 5,983rd in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from South Africa (up from 32nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular South African Politician.
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Among politicians, Abba Eban ranks 5,782 out of 15,577. Before him are Xanthippus, Balamber, Hormizd III, Mustafa Çelebi, Alexander Orlov, and Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu. After him are Jonathan Apphus, Bocchus I, Yeongnyu of Goguryeo, Nuon Chea, Göran Persson, and Wazner.
590 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 5,776
313 - 378
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 5,777
500 - 459
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 5,778
1380 - 1422
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 5,779
1895 - 1973
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 5,780
1902 - 1953
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 5,781
1915 - 2002
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 5,782
200 BC - 143 BC
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 5,783
200 BC - 100 BC
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 5,784
550 - 642
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 5,785
1926 - 2019
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 5,786
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 5,787
3500 BC - 3050 BC
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 5,788
Among people born in 1915, Abba Eban ranks 62. Before him are Konstantin Simonov, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., László Csatáry, Gyula Zsengellér, Don Budge, and Marie-Louise von Franz. After him are Santiago Carrillo, Joseph Greenberg, Miroslav Filipović, Geraldine of Albania, Tadeusz Kantor, and Branko Ćopić. Among people deceased in 2002, Abba Eban ranks 64. Before him are Joe Strummer, Mauro Ramos, Agatha Barbara, Pierre Werner, Sohn Kee-chung, and Hugo Banzer. After him are Joaquín Balaguer, Aileen Wuornos, Infanta Beatriz of Spain, François Périer, John Entwistle, and John Frankenheimer.
1915 - 1979
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 56
1915 - 1944
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 57
1915 - 2013
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 58
1915 - 1999
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 59
1915 - 2000
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 60
1915 - 1998
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 61
1915 - 2002
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 62
1915 - 2012
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 63
1915 - 2001
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 64
1915 - 1946
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 65
1915 - 2002
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 66
1915 - 1990
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 67
1915 - 1984
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 68
1952 - 2002
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 58
1930 - 2002
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 59
1923 - 2002
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 60
1913 - 2002
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 61
1912 - 2002
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 62
1926 - 2002
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 63
1915 - 2002
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 64
1906 - 2002
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 65
1956 - 2002
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 66
1909 - 2002
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 67
1919 - 2002
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 68
1944 - 2002
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 69
1930 - 2002
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 70
Among people born in South Africa, Abba Eban ranks 31 out of 374. Before him are Steve Biko (1946), Jan Smuts (1870), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), Seymour Papert (1928), D. F. Malan (1874), and Peter Abrahams (1919). After him are Basil Rathbone (1892), Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), Kevin Carter (1960), André Brink (1935), Arnold Vosloo (1962), and Angelique Rockas (1951).
1946 - 1977
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 25
1870 - 1950
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 26
1936 - 2018
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 27
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 28
1874 - 1959
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 29
1919 - 2017
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 30
1915 - 2002
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 31
1892 - 1967
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 32
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 33
1960 - 1994
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 34
1935 - 2015
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 35
1962 - Present
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 36
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 37
Among politicians born in South Africa, Abba Eban ranks 11. Before him are Paul Kruger (1825), P. W. Botha (1916), Cyril Ramaphosa (1952), Jan Smuts (1870), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), and D. F. Malan (1874). After him are Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826), Andries Pretorius (1798), Louis Botha (1862), John Vorster (1915), and Marais Viljoen (1915).
1825 - 1904
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 5
1916 - 2006
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 6
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 7
1870 - 1950
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 8
1936 - 2018
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 9
1874 - 1959
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 10
1915 - 2002
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 11
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 12
1826 - 1884
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 13
1798 - 1853
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 14
1862 - 1919
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 15
1915 - 1983
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 16
1915 - 2007
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 17