1862 - 1938
General Cao Kun (simplified Chinese: 曹锟; traditional Chinese: 曹錕; pinyin: Cáo Kūn; Wade–Giles: Ts'ao K'un; courtesy name: Zhongshan (仲珊)) (December 12, 1862 – May 15, 1938) was a Chinese warlord and politician, who served as the President of the Republic of China from 1923 to 1924, as well as the military leader of the Zhili clique in the Beiyang Army; he also served as a trustee of the Catholic University of Peking. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cao Kun has received more than 138,181 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Cao Kun is the 7,292nd most popular politician (down from 6,887th in 2019), the 521st most popular biography from China (down from 498th in 2019) and the 311th most popular Chinese Politician.
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Among politicians, Cao Kun ranks 7,292 out of 15,577. Before him are Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Wirich Philipp von Daun, Marcus Minucius Rufus, Paavo Lipponen, Julio María Sanguinetti, and Jacob Schiff. After him are John II, Duke of Brabant, Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus, Orlando Letelier, Osorkon the Elder, Manuel Fraga, and Shukri al-Quwatli.
1577 - 1626
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 7,286
1669 - 1741
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 7,287
300 BC - 216 BC
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 7,288
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 7,289
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 7,290
1847 - 1920
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 7,291
1862 - 1938
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 7,292
1275 - 1312
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 7,293
113 BC - 100 BC
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 7,294
1932 - 1976
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 7,295
1100 BC - 986 BC
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 7,296
1922 - 2012
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 7,297
1891 - 1967
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 7,298
Among people born in 1862, Cao Kun ranks 53. Before him are Frederick Delius, Nicholas Murray Butler, Henry McMahon, Anton Ažbe, René Viviani, and Nitobe Inazō. After him are Adolphe Appia, Edvard Westermarck, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Oswald Külpe, and Paul Adam. Among people deceased in 1938, Cao Kun ranks 79. Before him are Nicola Romeo, Edwin Hall, King Oliver, Emile Vandervelde, Otto von Lossow, and Christen C. Raunkiær. After him are Francis Jammes, Edmund Landau, Max Factor, Ante Trumbić, William Henry Pickering, and Octavian Goga.
1862 - 1934
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 47
1862 - 1947
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 48
1862 - 1949
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 49
1862 - 1905
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 50
1862 - 1925
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 51
1862 - 1933
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 52
1862 - 1938
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 53
1862 - 1928
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 54
1862 - 1939
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 55
1862 - 1919
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 56
1862 - 1933
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 57
1862 - 1915
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 58
1862 - 1920
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 59
1876 - 1938
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 73
1855 - 1938
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 74
1881 - 1938
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 75
1866 - 1938
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 76
1868 - 1938
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 77
1860 - 1938
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 78
1862 - 1938
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 79
1868 - 1938
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 80
1877 - 1938
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 81
1877 - 1938
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 82
1864 - 1938
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 83
1858 - 1938
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 84
1881 - 1938
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 85
Among people born in China, Cao Kun ranks 521 out of 1,392. Before him are Liang Kai (1200), Shangguan Wan'er (664), Fan Zhongyan (989), Soong Ai-ling (1888), Wu Peifu (1874), and Sergei Stepashin (1952). After him are Du Yuesheng (1888), Wang Hongwen (1935), Zhang Zeduan (1085), H. H. Kung (1881), Zhou Xuan (1920), and Fang Xuanling (578).
1200 - 1300
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 515
664 - 710
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 516
989 - 1052
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 517
1888 - 1973
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 518
1874 - 1939
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 519
1952 - Present
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 520
1862 - 1938
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 521
1888 - 1951
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 522
1935 - 1992
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 523
1085 - 1145
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 524
1881 - 1967
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 525
1920 - 1957
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 526
578 - 648
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 527
Among politicians born in China, Cao Kun ranks 311. Before him are Man Chong (209), Zhou Yongkang (1942), Shangguan Wan'er (664), Soong Ai-ling (1888), Wu Peifu (1874), and Sergei Stepashin (1952). After him are Wang Hongwen (1935), H. H. Kung (1881), Fang Xuanling (578), Zhu of Xia (null), Zhang Wentian (1900), and Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme (1910).
209 - Present
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 305
1942 - Present
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 306
664 - 710
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 307
1888 - 1973
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 308
1874 - 1939
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 309
1952 - Present
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 310
1862 - 1938
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 311
1935 - 1992
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 312
1881 - 1967
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 313
578 - 648
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 314
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 315
1900 - 1976
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 316
1910 - 2009
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 317