1885 - 1951
Joseph Benedict Chifley (; 22 September 1885 – 13 June 1951) was an Australian politician and train driver who served as the 16th prime minister of Australia from 1945 to 1949. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), having previously served as the treasurer of Australia under Prime Minister John Curtin and later himself from 1941 to 1949. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ben Chifley has received more than 525,960 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Ben Chifley is the 15,436th most popular politician (down from 13,824th in 2019), the 286th most popular biography from Australia (down from 283rd in 2019) and the 26th most popular Australian Politician.
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Among politicians, Ben Chifley ranks 15,436 out of 15,577. Before him are Oleh Lyashko, Grigol Vashadze, Miri Regev, Lorenzo Snow, Tomislav Karamarko, and Sergei Ponomarenko. After him are Mamuka Bakhtadze, Wollert Konow, Laurent Nkunda, David Samanez Ocampo, Surya Bahadur Thapa, and Hans-Peter Friedrich.
1972 - Present
HPI: 41.61
Rank: 15,430
1958 - Present
HPI: 41.61
Rank: 15,431
1965 - Present
HPI: 41.61
Rank: 15,432
1814 - 1901
HPI: 41.61
Rank: 15,433
1959 - Present
HPI: 41.60
Rank: 15,434
1960 - Present
HPI: 41.60
Rank: 15,435
1885 - 1951
HPI: 41.60
Rank: 15,436
1982 - Present
HPI: 41.60
Rank: 15,437
1845 - 1924
HPI: 41.59
Rank: 15,438
1967 - Present
HPI: 41.59
Rank: 15,439
1866 - 1947
HPI: 41.59
Rank: 15,440
1928 - 2015
HPI: 41.59
Rank: 15,441
1957 - Present
HPI: 41.59
Rank: 15,442
Among people born in 1885, Ben Chifley ranks 218. Before him are René Benjamin, Riccardo Nowak, Birger Sjöberg, Mário de Noronha, Alain LeRoy Locke, and Lionel Atwill. After him are Frederick Holman, Ethel Muckelt, Adela Pankhurst, Art Ross, Heinrich Schomburgk, and Károly Levitzky. Among people deceased in 1951, Ben Chifley ranks 153. Before him are Victor Johnson, Harry Blackstaffe, Lloyd C. Douglas, Frank Weston Benson, Polydore Veirman, and Mildred Bailey. After him are Mady Christians, Ernie Collett, Gordon Hodgson, Thomas Blamey, Tom Kiely, and Max Horton.
1885 - 1948
HPI: 42.62
Rank: 212
1885 - 1950
HPI: 42.48
Rank: 213
1885 - 1929
HPI: 42.04
Rank: 214
1885 - 1973
HPI: 41.78
Rank: 215
1885 - 1954
HPI: 41.70
Rank: 216
1885 - 1946
HPI: 41.69
Rank: 217
1885 - 1951
HPI: 41.60
Rank: 218
1885 - 1913
HPI: 41.59
Rank: 219
1885 - 1953
HPI: 41.39
Rank: 220
1885 - 1961
HPI: 41.22
Rank: 221
1885 - 1964
HPI: 41.02
Rank: 222
1885 - 1965
HPI: 40.89
Rank: 223
1885 - 1978
HPI: 40.74
Rank: 224
1883 - 1951
HPI: 43.40
Rank: 147
1868 - 1951
HPI: 42.84
Rank: 148
1877 - 1951
HPI: 41.99
Rank: 149
1862 - 1951
HPI: 41.81
Rank: 150
1881 - 1951
HPI: 41.74
Rank: 151
1907 - 1951
HPI: 41.64
Rank: 152
1885 - 1951
HPI: 41.60
Rank: 153
1892 - 1951
HPI: 41.29
Rank: 154
1895 - 1951
HPI: 41.22
Rank: 155
1904 - 1951
HPI: 41.16
Rank: 156
1884 - 1951
HPI: 41.07
Rank: 157
1869 - 1951
HPI: 40.86
Rank: 158
1883 - 1951
HPI: 40.82
Rank: 159
Among people born in Australia, Ben Chifley ranks 286 out of 925. Before him are Andrew Lesnie (1956), Zeljko Kalac (1972), Barry Otto (1941), Viva Bianca (1983), Henry Lawson (1867), and Cody Fern (1988). After him are Harry Cobby (1894), Lionel Cox (1930), Esna Boyd (1899), Kim So-hyun (1999), Thelma Coyne Long (1918), and Hubert Wilkins (1888).
1956 - 2015
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 280
1972 - Present
HPI: 41.72
Rank: 281
1941 - Present
HPI: 41.68
Rank: 282
1983 - Present
HPI: 41.65
Rank: 283
1867 - 1922
HPI: 41.64
Rank: 284
1988 - Present
HPI: 41.61
Rank: 285
1885 - 1951
HPI: 41.60
Rank: 286
1894 - 1955
HPI: 41.59
Rank: 287
1930 - 2010
HPI: 41.57
Rank: 288
1899 - 1966
HPI: 41.55
Rank: 289
1999 - Present
HPI: 41.54
Rank: 290
1918 - 2015
HPI: 41.53
Rank: 291
1888 - 1958
HPI: 41.51
Rank: 292
Among politicians born in Australia, Ben Chifley ranks 26. Before him are Gerald Patterson (1895), Michael Jeffery (1937), Stanley Bruce (1883), Earle Page (1880), John McEwen (1900), and Andrew Lesnie (1956). After him are Joseph Lyons (1879), Arthur Fadden (1894), Gregory Mathews (1876), Frank Forde (1890), James Scullin (1876), and Michael Joseph Savage (1872).
1895 - 1967
HPI: 44.73
Rank: 20
1937 - 2020
HPI: 44.05
Rank: 21
1883 - 1967
HPI: 43.48
Rank: 22
1880 - 1961
HPI: 42.72
Rank: 23
1900 - 1980
HPI: 41.87
Rank: 24
1956 - 2015
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 25
1885 - 1951
HPI: 41.60
Rank: 26
1879 - 1939
HPI: 41.43
Rank: 27
1894 - 1973
HPI: 41.37
Rank: 28
1876 - 1949
HPI: 40.75
Rank: 29
1890 - 1983
HPI: 40.41
Rank: 30
1876 - 1953
HPI: 39.09
Rank: 31
1872 - 1940
HPI: 38.78
Rank: 32