1873 - 1941
Christian Georgiyevich Rakovsky (August 13 [O.S. August 1] 1873 – September 11, 1941) was a Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat and statesman; he was also noted as a journalist, physician, and essayist. Rakovsky's political career took him throughout the Balkans and into France and Imperial Russia; for part of his life, he was also a Romanian citizen. A lifelong collaborator of Leon Trotsky, he was a prominent activist of the Second International, involved in politics with the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party, Romanian Social Democratic Party, and the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian Rakovsky has received more than 258,695 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Christian Rakovsky is the 3,261st most popular politician (up from 3,262nd in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Bulgaria (up from 31st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Bulgarian Politician.
Christian Rakovsky is most famous for his role in the trial of Leon Trotsky in Mexico in 1937.
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Among politicians, Christian Rakovsky ranks 3,261 out of 15,577. Before him are Zwentibold, Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg, Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, François Leclerc du Tremblay, and Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia. After him are Thesh, Abdullah II of Jordan, Oleksandr Turchynov, Stjepan Radić, Kaysone Phomvihane, and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn.
870 - 900
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 3,255
1240 - 1288
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 3,256
1860 - 1922
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 3,257
1799 - 1877
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 3,258
1577 - 1638
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 3,259
1726 - 1796
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 3,260
1873 - 1941
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 3,261
3200 BC - Present
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 3,262
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 3,263
1964 - Present
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 3,264
1871 - 1928
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 3,265
1920 - 1992
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 3,266
1778 - 1852
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 3,267
Among people born in 1873, Christian Rakovsky ranks 27. Before him are Max Reger, Francisco I. Madero, Feodor Chaliapin, Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Ejnar Hertzsprung, and Max Reinhardt. After him are Kyösti Kallio, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Alice Guy-Blaché, Ivanoe Bonomi, Alexander Bogdanov, and Ma Barker. Among people deceased in 1941, Christian Rakovsky ranks 33. Before him are Henri Lebesgue, Prajadhipok, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Günther Prien, Gottfried Feder, and Alexej von Jawlensky. After him are Frederick Griffith, Émile Bernard, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Kurt Koffka, Louis Chevrolet, and Dmitry Pavlov.
1873 - 1916
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 21
1873 - 1913
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 22
1873 - 1938
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 23
1873 - 1945
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 24
1873 - 1967
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 25
1873 - 1943
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 26
1873 - 1941
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 27
1873 - 1940
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 28
1873 - 1964
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 29
1873 - 1968
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 30
1873 - 1951
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 31
1873 - 1928
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 32
1873 - 1935
HPI: 59.47
Rank: 33
1875 - 1941
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 27
1893 - 1941
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 28
1856 - 1941
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 29
1908 - 1941
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 30
1883 - 1941
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 31
1864 - 1941
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 32
1873 - 1941
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 33
1879 - 1941
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 34
1868 - 1941
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 35
1923 - 1941
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 36
1886 - 1941
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 37
1878 - 1941
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 38
1897 - 1941
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 39
Among people born in Bulgaria, Christian Rakovsky ranks 30 out of 372. Before him are Fritz Zwicky (1898), Sylvie Vartan (1944), Kaloyan of Bulgaria (1168), Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria (1195), Ratko Janev (1939), and Vlado Chernozemski (1897). After him are Vasil Levski (1837), Aleksandar Stamboliyski (1879), Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria (1350), Peter I of Bulgaria (927), Rumen Radev (1963), and Boris Christoff (1914).
1898 - 1974
HPI: 63.78
Rank: 24
1944 - Present
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 25
1168 - 1207
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 26
1195 - 1241
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 27
1939 - 2019
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 28
1897 - 1934
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 29
1873 - 1941
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 30
1837 - 1873
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 31
1879 - 1923
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 32
1350 - 1395
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 33
927 - 970
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 34
1963 - Present
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 35
1914 - 1993
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 36
Among politicians born in Bulgaria, Christian Rakovsky ranks 17. Before him are Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1937), Kubrat (605), Boris I of Bulgaria (828), Tiberius II Constantine (520), Kaloyan of Bulgaria (1168), and Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria (1195). After him are Aleksandar Stamboliyski (1879), Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria (1350), Peter I of Bulgaria (927), Rumen Radev (1963), Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria (1300), and Kiril, Prince of Preslav (1895).
1937 - Present
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 11
605 - 665
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 12
828 - 907
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 13
520 - 582
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 14
1168 - 1207
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 15
1195 - 1241
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 16
1873 - 1941
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 17
1879 - 1923
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 18
1350 - 1395
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 19
927 - 970
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 20
1963 - Present
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 21
1300 - 1371
HPI: 59.75
Rank: 22
1895 - 1945
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 23