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Andries Pretorius

1798 - 1853

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Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius (27 November 1798 – 23 July 1853) was a leader of the Boers who was instrumental in the creation of the South African Republic, as well as the earlier but short-lived Natalia Republic, in present-day South Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andries Pretorius has received more than 360,686 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Andries Pretorius is the 8,299th most popular politician (down from 7,685th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from South Africa and the 14th most popular South African Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Andries Pretorius ranks 8,299 out of 19,576. Before him are Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lotharingia, Natsagiin Bagabandi, Pasenadi, Mutnedjmet, and Ahmed Dogan. After him are Shigenori Tōgō, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Princess Yolanda of Savoy, Askia Mohammad I, and Sinjong of Goryeo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Andries Pretorius ranks 20. Before him are Franz Ernst Neumann, Alexander Gorchakov, Archduchess Clementina of Austria, Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Thomas Hodgkin, and Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. After him are Dionysios Solomos, Massimo d'Azeglio, Jules Armand Dufaure, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Charles Wilkes, and Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud. Among people deceased in 1853, Andries Pretorius ranks 20. Before him are Tokugawa Ieyoshi, Leopold Gmelin, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Juan Donoso Cortés, Julius Jacob von Haynau, and Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg. After him are Frédéric Ozanam, Joaquin Murrieta, Anastasio Bustamante, Lionel Kieseritzky, Auguste Laurent, and Princess Amalia of Sweden.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Andries Pretorius ranks 39 out of 454. Before him are Michael Levitt (1947), Peter Abrahams (1919), Arnold Vosloo (1962), André Brink (1935), Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826), and Kevin Carter (1960). After him are Rory Byrne (1944), Louis Botha (1862), C. R. Swart (1894), John Vorster (1915), Marais Viljoen (1915), and Esther Brand (1922).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Africa

Among politicians born in South Africa, Andries Pretorius ranks 14. Before him are Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), D. F. Malan (1874), Jan Smuts (1870), Abba Eban (1915), Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), and Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826). After him are Louis Botha (1862), C. R. Swart (1894), John Vorster (1915), Marais Viljoen (1915), Christiaan de Wet (1854), and Piet Joubert (1834).

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