1809 - 1865
Abraham Lincoln (; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, the country's greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. He succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abraham Lincoln has received more than 38,354,518 page views. His biography is available in 184 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 176 in 2019). Abraham Lincoln is the 28th most popular politician (down from 27th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from United States (down from 7th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Politician.
Abraham Lincoln is most famous for being the 16th president of the United States. He led the country through the Civil War, which was a conflict between the Northern and Southern states. Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
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Among politicians, Abraham Lincoln ranks 28 out of 15,710. Before him are Mao Zedong, Tutankhamun, Ulysses S. Grant, Cicero, Commodus, and Umar. After him are Queen Victoria, Carles Puigdemont, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nero, Louis XVI of France, and Justinian I.
1893 - 1976
HPI: 89.64
Rank: 22
1341 BC - 1323 BC
HPI: 89.49
Rank: 23
1822 - 1885
HPI: 89.27
Rank: 24
106 BC - 43 BC
HPI: 89.25
Rank: 25
161 - 192
HPI: 89.25
Rank: 26
585 - 644
HPI: 89.18
Rank: 27
1809 - 1865
HPI: 89.14
Rank: 28
1819 - 1901
HPI: 89.14
Rank: 29
1962 - Present
HPI: 89.09
Rank: 30
1931 - Present
HPI: 89.08
Rank: 31
37 - 68
HPI: 89.02
Rank: 32
1754 - 1793
HPI: 88.73
Rank: 33
482 - 565
HPI: 88.45
Rank: 34
Among people born in 1809, Abraham Lincoln ranks 3. Before him are Charles Darwin and Edgar Allan Poe. After him are Nikolai Gogol, Felix Mendelssohn, Louis Braille, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Bruno Bauer, William Ewart Gladstone, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Joseph Liouville. Among people deceased in 1865, Abraham Lincoln ranks 1. After him are Ignaz Semmelweis, John Wilkes Booth, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Leopold I of Belgium, Emil Lenz, William Rowan Hamilton, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Johann Franz Encke, and Robert FitzRoy.
1809 - 1882
HPI: 93.29
Rank: 1
1809 - 1849
HPI: 89.63
Rank: 2
1809 - 1865
HPI: 89.14
Rank: 3
1809 - 1852
HPI: 85.09
Rank: 4
1809 - 1847
HPI: 85.00
Rank: 5
1809 - 1852
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 6
1809 - 1865
HPI: 80.58
Rank: 7
1809 - 1891
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 8
1809 - 1882
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 9
1809 - 1898
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 10
1809 - 1892
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 11
1809 - 1882
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 12
1809 - 1865
HPI: 89.14
Rank: 1
1818 - 1865
HPI: 84.71
Rank: 2
1838 - 1865
HPI: 84.67
Rank: 3
1809 - 1865
HPI: 80.58
Rank: 4
1790 - 1865
HPI: 80.26
Rank: 5
1804 - 1865
HPI: 76.42
Rank: 6
1805 - 1865
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 7
1795 - 1865
HPI: 75.03
Rank: 8
1784 - 1865
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 9
1843 - 1865
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 10
1791 - 1865
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 11
1805 - 1865
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Abraham Lincoln ranks 8 out of 15,968. Before him are Thomas Jefferson (1743), Thomas Edison (1847), Muhammad Ali (1942), Jimmy Carter (1924), Edgar Allan Poe (1809), and Ulysses S. Grant (1822). After him are Marilyn Monroe (1926), Sylvester Stallone (1946), Steve Jobs (1955), Malcolm X (1925), Elvis Presley (1935), and Martin Van Buren (1782).
1743 - 1826
HPI: 92.69
Rank: 2
1847 - 1931
HPI: 92.59
Rank: 3
1942 - 2016
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 4
1924 - Present
HPI: 90.85
Rank: 5
1809 - 1849
HPI: 89.63
Rank: 6
1822 - 1885
HPI: 89.27
Rank: 7
1809 - 1865
HPI: 89.14
Rank: 8
1926 - 1962
HPI: 89.12
Rank: 9
1946 - Present
HPI: 88.47
Rank: 10
1955 - 2011
HPI: 88.27
Rank: 11
1925 - 1965
HPI: 88.13
Rank: 12
1935 - 1977
HPI: 88.09
Rank: 13
1782 - 1862
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 14
Among politicians born in United States, Abraham Lincoln ranks 5. Before him are Donald Trump (1946), Thomas Jefferson (1743), Jimmy Carter (1924), and Ulysses S. Grant (1822). After him are Martin Van Buren (1782), John F. Kennedy (1917), Hillary Clinton (1947), Benjamin Franklin (1706), Ronald Reagan (1911), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882), and James K. Polk (1795).
1946 - Present
HPI: 94.95
Rank: 1
1743 - 1826
HPI: 92.69
Rank: 2
1924 - Present
HPI: 90.85
Rank: 3
1822 - 1885
HPI: 89.27
Rank: 4
1809 - 1865
HPI: 89.14
Rank: 5
1782 - 1862
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 6
1917 - 1963
HPI: 87.77
Rank: 7
1947 - Present
HPI: 87.74
Rank: 8
1706 - 1790
HPI: 87.09
Rank: 9
1911 - 2004
HPI: 86.80
Rank: 10
1882 - 1945
HPI: 86.43
Rank: 11
1795 - 1849
HPI: 86.14
Rank: 12