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Bernie Sanders

1941 - Today

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Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and activist who is the senior United States senator from Vermont. Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history but has a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, coming second in both campaigns. He is often seen as the leader of the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernie Sanders has received more than 42,486,832 page views. His biography is available in 117 different languages on Wikipedia. Bernie Sanders is the 140th most popular politician (up from 1,706th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from United States (up from 528th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Politician.

Bernie Sanders is most famous for being a democratic socialist, running for president of the United States in 2016, and being a senator from Vermont.

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  • 42M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 79.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 117

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 16.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bernie Sanders ranks 140 out of 19,576. Before him are Herod the Great, Isabella I of Castile, Murad II, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, David Ben-Gurion, and Benjamin Netanyahu. After him are Skanderbeg, Bayezid II, Sun Yat-sen, Simón Bolívar, Al Gore, and Augusto Pinochet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Bernie Sanders ranks 3. Before him are Hayao Miyazaki, and Kim Jong-il. After him are Alex Ferguson, Slobodan Milošević, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Sergio Mattarella, Bernardo Bertolucci, Cesária Évora, Václav Klaus, and Krzysztof Kieślowski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bernie Sanders ranks 49 out of 20,380. Before him are Harry S. Truman (1884), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), Mark Twain (1835), Zodiac Killer (1940), and Maria Callas (1923). After him are Cher (1946), Clint Eastwood (1930), Wallis Simpson (1896), Al Gore (1948), Joseph Smith (1805), and Andy Warhol (1928).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Bernie Sanders ranks 20. Before him are Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882), John F. Kennedy (1917), Benjamin Franklin (1706), Ronald Reagan (1911), George Washington (1732), and Harry S. Truman (1884). After him are Al Gore (1948), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890), George W. Bush (1946), George H. W. Bush (1924), Bill Clinton (1946), and Theodore Roosevelt (1858).

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