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Ben Chifley

1885 - 1951

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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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among POLITICIANS

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Australia

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).

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Among POLITICIANS In Australia

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).

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