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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman

1769 - 1852

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His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington is the 1,215th most popular politician (down from 631st in 2024), the 22nd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 10th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Irish Politician.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, is most famous for defeating Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Waterloo.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington's biography appears in 81 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 97% of all Politicians.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ranks #22 among 639 people in Pantheon born in Ireland, inside the top 4% of that group.

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Among Politicians

Among politicians, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ranks 1,215 out of 20,022. Before him are Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Kurt von Schleicher, Władysław III of Poland, JD Vance, Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, and Dost Mohammad Khan. After him are Wilm Hosenfeld, Christian I of Denmark, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Andrei Gromyko, Helmut Schmidt, and 5th Dalai Lama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ranks 6. Before him are Napoleon, Alexander von Humboldt, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Georges Cuvier, and Michel Ney. After him are Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Jean Lannes, Ivan Krylov, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, André-Jacques Garnerin, and Ivan Kotliarevsky. Among people deceased in 1852, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ranks 6. Before him are Ada Lovelace, Nikolai Gogol, Louis Braille, Friedrich Fröbel, and Henry Clay. After him are Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Auguste de Marmont, Johan Gadolin, Augustus Pugin, Marie of Hesse-Kassel, and Ján Kollár.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ranks 22 out of 639. Before him are Edmund Burke (1729), Michael Gambon (1940), Francis Bacon (1909), Eddie Jordan (1948), Sinéad O'Connor (1966), and George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449). After him are William Rowan Hamilton (1805), Pierce Brosnan (1953), Grace O'Malley (1530), J. D. Bernal (1901), W. B. Yeats (1865), and G. E. M. Anscombe (1919).

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Among Politicians In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ranks 3. Before him are Edmund Burke (1729), and George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449). After him are Michael D. Higgins (1941), Bertie Ahern (1951), Harald Gille (1103), John Boland (1870), Causantín mac Cináeda (836), Michael Collins (1890), Brian Cowen (1960), Mary Robinson (1944), and Malcolm II of Scotland (954).

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