1954 - Today
Angela Dorothea Merkel (German: [aŋˈɡeːla doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛʁkl̩] ; née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a retired German politician and chemist who served as chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), she previously served as Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 2000 to 2018. Merkel was the first female chancellor of Germany. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Angela Merkel has received more than 20,531,213 page views. Her biography is available in 159 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 148 in 2019). Angela Merkel is the 49th most popular politician (up from 118th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Germany (up from 39th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Politician.
Angela Merkel is most famous for being the Chancellor of Germany. She is the first woman to hold this position and has been in office since 2005.
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Among politicians, Angela Merkel ranks 49 out of 15,577. Before her are Maria Theresa, Ulysses S. Grant, Nero, Leon Trotsky, Peter the Great, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. After her are Saddam Hussein, Boris Yeltsin, Nebuchadnezzar II, Nikita Khrushchev, Marcus Aurelius, and Fidel Castro.
1717 - 1780
HPI: 84.31
Rank: 43
1822 - 1885
HPI: 84.29
Rank: 44
37 - 68
HPI: 84.29
Rank: 45
1879 - 1940
HPI: 84.04
Rank: 46
1672 - 1725
HPI: 83.99
Rank: 47
1882 - 1945
HPI: 83.98
Rank: 48
1954 - Present
HPI: 83.94
Rank: 49
1937 - 2006
HPI: 83.91
Rank: 50
1931 - 2007
HPI: 83.89
Rank: 51
630 BC - 562 BC
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 52
1894 - 1971
HPI: 83.74
Rank: 53
121 - 180
HPI: 83.70
Rank: 54
1926 - 2016
HPI: 83.61
Rank: 55
Among people born in 1954, Angela Merkel ranks 1. After her are Jackie Chan, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, François Hollande, Denzel Washington, Hugo Chávez, Alexander Lukashenko, John Travolta, Viktor Yushchenko, James Cameron, Sócrates, and Emir Kusturica.
1954 - Present
HPI: 83.94
Rank: 1
1954 - Present
HPI: 78.11
Rank: 2
1954 - Present
HPI: 77.42
Rank: 3
1954 - Present
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 4
1954 - Present
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 5
1954 - 2013
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 6
1954 - Present
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 7
1954 - Present
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 8
1954 - Present
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 9
1954 - Present
HPI: 69.41
Rank: 10
1954 - 2011
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 11
1954 - Present
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Angela Merkel ranks 20 out of 6,142. Before her are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Richard Wagner (1813), Peter Paul Rubens (1577), Albrecht Dürer (1471), and George Frideric Handel (1685). After her are Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Anne Frank (1929), Henry Kissinger (1923), Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837), Friedrich Engels (1820), and Frederick the Great (1712).
1770 - 1831
HPI: 85.96
Rank: 14
1646 - 1716
HPI: 85.38
Rank: 15
1813 - 1883
HPI: 85.34
Rank: 16
1577 - 1640
HPI: 85.12
Rank: 17
1471 - 1528
HPI: 85.05
Rank: 18
1685 - 1759
HPI: 84.66
Rank: 19
1954 - Present
HPI: 83.94
Rank: 20
1845 - 1923
HPI: 83.44
Rank: 21
1929 - 1945
HPI: 83.42
Rank: 22
1923 - 2023
HPI: 83.32
Rank: 23
1837 - 1898
HPI: 83.26
Rank: 24
1820 - 1895
HPI: 83.04
Rank: 25
1712 - 1786
HPI: 82.84
Rank: 26
Among politicians born in Germany, Angela Merkel ranks 3. Before her are Charlemagne (748) and Otto von Bismarck (1815). After her are Henry Kissinger (1923), Frederick the Great (1712), Heinrich Himmler (1900), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), Hermann Göring (1893), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Joseph Goebbels (1897), William I, German Emperor (1797), and Reinhard Heydrich (1904).
748 - 814
HPI: 89.46
Rank: 1
1815 - 1898
HPI: 86.51
Rank: 2
1954 - Present
HPI: 83.94
Rank: 3
1923 - 2023
HPI: 83.32
Rank: 4
1712 - 1786
HPI: 82.84
Rank: 5
1900 - 1945
HPI: 81.82
Rank: 6
1859 - 1941
HPI: 81.60
Rank: 7
1893 - 1946
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 8
912 - 973
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 9
1897 - 1945
HPI: 78.93
Rank: 10
1797 - 1888
HPI: 78.55
Rank: 11
1904 - 1942
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 12