1854 - 1922
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet (Chrisjan de Wet, 7 October 1854 – 3 February 1922) was a Boer general, rebel leader and politician. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christiaan de Wet has received more than 268,268 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Christiaan de Wet is the 10,179th most popular politician (down from 9,263rd in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 46th in 2019) and the 19th most popular South African Politician.
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Among politicians, Christiaan de Wet ranks 10,179 out of 15,577. Before him are Wazir Akbar Khan, Gungunum, Sergey Uvarov, François Hanriot, Poul Hartling, and Otto III, Duke of Carinthia. After him are Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz, Lunalilo, Pygmalion of Tyre, Nicolás Avellaneda, Joan I, Countess of Burgundy, and Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus.
1816 - 1845
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 10,173
2000 BC - 2000 BC
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 10,174
1786 - 1855
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 10,175
1761 - 1794
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 10,176
1914 - 2000
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 10,177
1265 - 1310
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 10,178
1854 - 1922
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 10,179
1884 - 1905
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 10,180
1835 - 1874
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 10,181
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 10,182
1837 - 1885
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 10,183
1191 - 1205
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 10,184
189 BC - 130 BC
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 10,185
Among people born in 1854, Christiaan de Wet ranks 64. Before him are Charles Angrand, Adolf Erman, Franz Rohr von Denta, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Konstantin Jireček, and Ruth Belville. After him are Yehuda Pen, Benjamin Tucker, Vasil Radoslavov, José Canalejas, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, and Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner. Among people deceased in 1922, Christiaan de Wet ranks 70. Before him are Heinrich Rubens, Viktor Kingissepp, Michael Mayr, Luigi Denza, Ricardo Flores Magón, and Max Abraham. After him are Géza Gárdonyi, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Arthur Griffith, Kabayama Sukenori, Lord Leopold Mountbatten, and Otto Lehmann.
1854 - 1926
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 58
1854 - 1937
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 59
1854 - 1927
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 60
1854 - 1899
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 61
1854 - 1918
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 62
1854 - 1943
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 63
1854 - 1922
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 64
1854 - 1937
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 65
1854 - 1939
HPI: 51.79
Rank: 66
1854 - 1929
HPI: 51.77
Rank: 67
1854 - 1912
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 68
1854 - 1936
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 69
1854 - 1925
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 70
1865 - 1922
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 64
1888 - 1922
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 65
1864 - 1922
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 66
1846 - 1922
HPI: 52.21
Rank: 67
1874 - 1922
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 68
1875 - 1922
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 69
1854 - 1922
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 70
1863 - 1922
HPI: 51.83
Rank: 71
1883 - 1922
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 72
1871 - 1922
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 73
1837 - 1922
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 74
1889 - 1922
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 75
1855 - 1922
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 76
Among people born in South Africa, Christiaan de Wet ranks 49 out of 374. Before him are Marais Viljoen (1915), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), Manfred Mann (1940), Rory Byrne (1944), Jamie Uys (1921), and Dave Matthews (1967). After him are Glynis Johns (1923), Oscar Pistorius (1986), Marlene Dumas (1953), Alice Krige (1954), C. R. Swart (1894), and Esther Brand (1922).
1915 - 2007
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 43
1795 - 1840
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 44
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 45
1944 - Present
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 46
1921 - 1996
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 47
1967 - Present
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 48
1854 - 1922
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 49
1923 - 2024
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 50
1986 - Present
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 51
1953 - Present
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 52
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 53
1894 - 1982
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 54
1922 - 2015
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 55
Among politicians born in South Africa, Christiaan de Wet ranks 19. Before him are Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826), Andries Pretorius (1798), Louis Botha (1862), John Vorster (1915), Marais Viljoen (1915), and Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795). After him are C. R. Swart (1894), Piet Joubert (1834), J. B. M. Hertzog (1866), Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), J. G. Strijdom (1893), and Nico Diederichs (1903).
1826 - 1884
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 13
1798 - 1853
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 14
1862 - 1919
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 15
1915 - 1983
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 16
1915 - 2007
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 17
1795 - 1840
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 18
1854 - 1922
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 19
1894 - 1982
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 20
1834 - 1900
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 21
1866 - 1942
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 22
1819 - 1901
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 23
1893 - 1958
HPI: 50.18
Rank: 24
1903 - 1978
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 25