1850 - 1909
Besarion Ivanes dze Jughashvili (c. 1850 – 25 August 1909) was the father of Joseph Stalin. Born into a peasant family of serfs in Didi Lilo in Georgia, he moved to Tbilisi at a young age to be a shoemaker, working in a factory. He was invited to set up his own shop in Gori, where he met and married Ekaterine Geladze, with whom he had three sons; only the youngest, Ioseb, lived. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Besarion Jughashvili has received more than 562,853 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Besarion Jughashvili is the 34th most popular celebrity (up from 35th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Georgia (down from 30th in 2019) and the most popular Georgian Celebrity.
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Among celebrities, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 34 out of 181. Before him are Jacques Mayol, Mary Mallon, Kim Kardashian, Albert Pierrepoint, Blanche Monnier, and Rosemary Kennedy. After him are Cecilia Gallerani, Edie Sedgwick, Thérésa Tallien, Keke Geladze, Armi Kuusela, and Fritz Pfeffer.
1927 - 2001
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 28
1869 - 1938
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 29
1980 - Present
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 30
1905 - 1992
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 31
1849 - 1913
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 32
1918 - 2005
HPI: 60.00
Rank: 33
1850 - 1909
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 34
1473 - 1536
HPI: 59.84
Rank: 35
1943 - 1971
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 36
1773 - 1835
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 37
1858 - 1937
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 38
1934 - Present
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 39
1889 - 1944
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 40
Among people born in 1850, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 24. Before him are Luigi Cadorna, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, Ignác Goldziher, Victoriano Huerta, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and César Ritz. After him are Sami Frashëri, William Morris Davis, Ivan Vazov, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Mikhail Chigorin, and Zdeněk Fibich. Among people deceased in 1909, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 20. Before him are Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Carlos, Duke of Madrid, Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Red Cloud, Emil Erlenmeyer, and Francisco Ferrer. After him are Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Princess Marie of Orléans, Paul Gachet, Abdul Karim, Simon Newcomb, and Arnold Janssen.
1850 - 1928
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 18
1850 - 1922
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 19
1850 - 1921
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 20
1850 - 1916
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 21
1850 - 1923
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 22
1850 - 1918
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 23
1850 - 1909
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 24
1850 - 1904
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 25
1850 - 1934
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 26
1850 - 1921
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 27
1850 - 1916
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 28
1850 - 1908
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 29
1850 - 1900
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 30
1831 - 1909
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 14
1848 - 1909
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 15
1848 - 1909
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 16
1822 - 1909
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 17
1825 - 1909
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 18
1859 - 1909
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 19
1850 - 1909
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 20
1867 - 1909
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 21
1865 - 1909
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 22
1828 - 1909
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 23
1863 - 1909
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 24
1835 - 1909
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 25
1837 - 1909
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 26
Among people born in Georgia, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 32 out of 342. Before him are Victor Ambartsumian (1908), Rusudan of Georgia (1194), Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (1866), Kato Svanidze (1885), Nicholas Marr (1864), and Ilia Chavchavadze (1837). After him are Murad Bey (1750), Nariman Narimanov (1870), Keke Geladze (1858), Bagrat III of Georgia (960), George III of Georgia (1200), and Rashid Behbudov (1915).
1908 - 1996
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 26
1194 - 1245
HPI: 61.22
Rank: 27
1866 - 1933
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 28
1885 - 1907
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 29
1864 - 1934
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 30
1837 - 1907
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 31
1850 - 1909
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 32
1750 - 1801
HPI: 59.66
Rank: 33
1870 - 1925
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 34
1858 - 1937
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 35
960 - 1014
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 36
1200 - 1184
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 37
1915 - 1989
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 38
Among celebrities born in Georgia, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 1. After him are Keke Geladze (1858).