POLITICIAN

Cleopatra

69 BC - 30 BC

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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Koinē Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Θεά Φιλοπάτωρ, lit. 'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great. Her first language was Koine Greek, and she is the only Ptolemaic ruler known to have learned the Egyptian language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cleopatra has received more than 233,782,237 page views. Her biography is available in 147 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 134 in 2019). Cleopatra is the 16th most popular politician (down from 6th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Egypt and the most popular Egyptian Politician.

Cleopatra is most famous for being the last pharaoh of Egypt. She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty and ruled from 51 to 30 BC.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 147

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Cleopatra ranks 16 out of 19,576Before her are Saladin, Vladimir Lenin, Jimmy Carter, Augustus, Richard Nixon, and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. After her are David, Henry Kissinger, Commodus, Otto von Bismarck, Andrew Jackson, and Elizabeth I of England.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 69 BC, Cleopatra ranks 1After her are Octavia the Younger, Hyeokgeose of Silla, Emperor Suinin, and Cornelius Gallus. Among people deceased in 30 BC, Cleopatra ranks 1After her are Mark Antony, Caesarion, Diodorus Siculus, Hyrcanus II, Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Huhanye, and Publius Canidius Crassus.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Cleopatra ranks 2 out of 642Before her are Moses (-1393). After her are Tutankhamun (-1341), Euclid (-350), Nefertiti (-1400), Ptolemy (100), Yasser Arafat (1929), Akhenaten (-1400), Hypatia (350), Anthony the Great (251), Origen (185), and Joshua (-1355).

Among POLITICIANS In Egypt

Among politicians born in Egypt, Cleopatra ranks 1After her are Yasser Arafat (1929), Akhenaten (-1400), Hatshepsut (-1507), Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918), Anwar Sadat (1918), Hosni Mubarak (1928), Amenhotep III (-1403), Rudolf Hess (1894), Khafra (-2550), Ay (-1380), and Horemheb (-1319).