1848 - 1930
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, (, 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930), also known as Lord Balfour, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, he issued the Balfour Declaration of 1917 on behalf of the cabinet, which supported a "home for the Jewish people" in Palestine.Entering Parliament in 1874, Balfour achieved prominence as Chief Secretary for Ireland, in which position he suppressed agrarian unrest whilst taking measures against absentee landlords. He opposed Irish Home Rule, saying there could be no half-way house between Ireland remaining within the United Kingdom or becoming independent. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Balfour has received more than 1,725,923 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Arthur Balfour is the 2,090th most popular politician (down from 2,009th in 2019), the 480th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 495th in 2019) and the 88th most popular British Politician.
Arthur Balfour was a British Prime Minister from 1902-1905. He is most famous for his Balfour Declaration, which was a letter he wrote to Lord Rothschild in 1917 that stated the British government's support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
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Among politicians, Arthur Balfour ranks 2,090 out of 15,577. Before him are Willi Stoph, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Kavad I, Al-Mahdi, Robert I, Duke of Parma, and King Zhaoxiang of Qin. After him are Vasily II of Moscow, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Eric V of Denmark, Nogai Khan, Stamford Raffles, and Gabriel Bethlen.
1914 - 1999
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 2,084
1787 - 1816
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 2,085
473 - 531
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 2,086
744 - 785
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 2,087
1848 - 1907
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 2,088
325 BC - 251 BC
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 2,089
1848 - 1930
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 2,090
1415 - 1462
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 2,091
1819 - 1901
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 2,092
1249 - 1286
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 2,093
1300 - 1300
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 2,094
1781 - 1826
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 2,095
1580 - 1629
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 2,096
Among people born in 1848, Arthur Balfour ranks 14. Before him are Gustave Caillebotte, Otto of Bavaria, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Hugo de Vries, Tōgō Heihachirō, and Robert I, Duke of Parma. After him are Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Johann Palisa, Viktor Vasnetsov, Wilhelm Windelband, Wyatt Earp, and Aleksey Kuropatkin. Among people deceased in 1930, Arthur Balfour ranks 20. Before him are D. H. Lawrence, Joan Gamper, Alfred von Tirpitz, Lon Chaney, Horst Wessel, and Prince Leopold of Bavaria. After him are Siegfried Wagner, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Sakichi Toyoda, Wilfrid Voynich, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, and Adolf von Harnack.
1848 - 1894
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 8
1848 - 1916
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 9
1848 - 1922
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 10
1848 - 1935
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 11
1848 - 1934
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 12
1848 - 1907
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 13
1848 - 1930
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 14
1848 - 1939
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 15
1848 - 1925
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 16
1848 - 1926
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 17
1848 - 1915
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 18
1848 - 1929
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 19
1848 - 1925
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 20
1885 - 1930
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 14
1877 - 1930
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 15
1849 - 1930
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 16
1883 - 1930
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 17
1907 - 1930
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 18
1846 - 1930
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 19
1848 - 1930
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 20
1869 - 1930
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 21
1898 - 1930
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 22
1867 - 1930
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 23
1865 - 1930
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 24
1892 - 1930
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 25
1851 - 1930
HPI: 60.09
Rank: 26
Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Balfour ranks 480 out of 7,765. Before him are William Godwin (1756), Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), Edmund Ironside (993), John Cleese (1939), Peter Brook (1925), and Austen Chamberlain (1863). After him are Thomas Wolsey (1473), Eadwig (940), Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), G. E. Moore (1873), and Arthur Eddington (1882).
1756 - 1836
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 474
1473 - 1483
HPI: 64.88
Rank: 475
993 - 1016
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 476
1939 - Present
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 477
1925 - 2022
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 478
1863 - 1937
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 479
1848 - 1930
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 480
1473 - 1530
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 481
940 - 959
HPI: 64.75
Rank: 482
1550 - 1604
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 483
1772 - 1834
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 484
1873 - 1958
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 485
1882 - 1944
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 486
Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Arthur Balfour ranks 88. Before him are Robert II of Scotland (1316), Sweyn II of Denmark (1020), James Callaghan (1912), Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), Edmund Ironside (993), and Austen Chamberlain (1863). After him are Eadwig (940), Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779), Stanley Baldwin (1867), and Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771).
1316 - 1390
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 82
1020 - 1076
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 83
1912 - 2005
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 84
1473 - 1483
HPI: 64.88
Rank: 85
993 - 1016
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 86
1863 - 1937
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 87
1848 - 1930
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 88
940 - 959
HPI: 64.75
Rank: 89
1550 - 1604
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 90
1660 - 1744
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 91
1779 - 1848
HPI: 64.45
Rank: 92
1867 - 1947
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 93
1771 - 1851
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 94