748 - 814
Charlemagne ( SHAR-lə-mayn, -MAYN; 2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding all these titles until his death in 814. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the majority of Western Central Europe, and was the first recognized emperor to rule in the west after the fall of the Western Roman Empire approximately three centuries earlier. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charlemagne has received more than 19,712,490 page views. His biography is available in 147 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 145 in 2019). Charlemagne is the 10th most popular politician, the 6th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular German Politician.
Charlemagne was the first Holy Roman Emperor. He is most famous for uniting Western Europe and expanding the Frankish Kingdom into an empire that covered much of Western and Central Europe.
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Among politicians, Charlemagne ranks 10 out of 15,577. Before him are Louis XIV of France, Joseph Stalin, Cleopatra, Vladimir Lenin, Thomas Jefferson, and Augustus. After him are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Vladimir Putin, Suleiman the Magnificent, David, Saladin, and Elizabeth I of England.
1638 - 1715
HPI: 91.31
Rank: 4
1879 - 1953
HPI: 90.88
Rank: 5
69 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 89.95
Rank: 6
1870 - 1924
HPI: 89.94
Rank: 7
1743 - 1826
HPI: 89.78
Rank: 8
63 BC - 14
HPI: 89.71
Rank: 9
748 - 814
HPI: 89.46
Rank: 10
1881 - 1938
HPI: 88.95
Rank: 11
1952 - Present
HPI: 88.82
Rank: 12
1494 - 1566
HPI: 88.38
Rank: 13
1010 BC - 970 BC
HPI: 87.93
Rank: 14
1138 - 1193
HPI: 87.73
Rank: 15
1533 - 1603
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 16
Among people born in 748, Charlemagne ranks 1. After him is Abu-l-'Atahiya. Among people deceased in 814, Charlemagne ranks 1. After him are Abu Nuwas, Krum, and Angilbert.
748 - 814
HPI: 89.46
Rank: 1
762 - 814
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 2
710 - 814
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 3
740 - 814
HPI: 54.03
Rank: 4
Among people born in Germany, Charlemagne ranks 6 out of 6,142. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven (1770), Albert Einstein (1879), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), Martin Luther (1483), and Karl Marx (1818). After him are Johannes Gutenberg (1394), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), Johannes Kepler (1571), and Otto von Bismarck (1815).
1770 - 1827
HPI: 95.23
Rank: 1
1879 - 1955
HPI: 93.06
Rank: 2
1685 - 1750
HPI: 92.29
Rank: 3
1483 - 1546
HPI: 92.12
Rank: 4
1818 - 1883
HPI: 91.29
Rank: 5
748 - 814
HPI: 89.46
Rank: 6
1394 - 1468
HPI: 89.28
Rank: 7
1749 - 1832
HPI: 88.78
Rank: 8
1844 - 1900
HPI: 87.93
Rank: 9
1777 - 1855
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 10
1571 - 1630
HPI: 87.17
Rank: 11
1815 - 1898
HPI: 86.51
Rank: 12
Among politicians born in Germany, Charlemagne ranks 1. After him are Otto von Bismarck (1815), Angela Merkel (1954), Henry Kissinger (1923), Frederick the Great (1712), Heinrich Himmler (1900), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), Hermann Göring (1893), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Joseph Goebbels (1897), William I, German Emperor (1797), and Reinhard Heydrich (1904).
748 - 814
HPI: 89.46
Rank: 1
1815 - 1898
HPI: 86.51
Rank: 2
1954 - Present
HPI: 83.94
Rank: 3
1923 - 2023
HPI: 83.32
Rank: 4
1712 - 1786
HPI: 82.84
Rank: 5
1900 - 1945
HPI: 81.82
Rank: 6
1859 - 1941
HPI: 81.60
Rank: 7
1893 - 1946
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 8
912 - 973
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 9
1897 - 1945
HPI: 78.93
Rank: 10
1797 - 1888
HPI: 78.55
Rank: 11
1904 - 1942
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 12