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David Kelly

1944 - 2003

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David Christopher Kelly (14 May 1944 – 17 July 2003) was a Welsh scientist and authority on biological warfare (BW). A former head of the Defence Microbiology Division working at Porton Down, Kelly was part of a joint US-UK team that inspected civilian biotechnology facilities in Russia in the early 1990s and concluded they were running a covert and illegal BW programme. He was appointed to the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) in 1991 as one of its chief weapons inspectors in Iraq and led ten of the organisation's missions between May 1991 and December 1998. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Kelly has received more than 75,683 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). David Kelly is the 15,891st most popular politician (down from 13,948th in 2019), the 5,153rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,474th in 2019) and the 588th most popular British Politician.

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  • 76k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, David Kelly ranks 15,891 out of 15,577. Before him are Francisco Álvarez-Cascos, Françoise Nyssen, Gifford Pinchot, Mustafa Şentop, Jay Inslee, and Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska. After him are Rosa Díez, Stéphane Dion, Jejomar Binay, Vincenzo Sospiri, Otto Blehr, and Pierre Amine Gemayel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, David Kelly ranks 590. Before him are Jon E. Ahlquist, David Gerrold, Graham Taylor, Alberto Demiddi, Carl I. Hagen, and Svetlana Krachevskaya. After him are Cathy Lee Crosby, Liesel Westermann, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Tim Reid, Reinhold Bachler, and Rúben Bareño. Among people deceased in 2003, David Kelly ranks 293. Before him are Carol Shields, C. Douglas Dillon, Eddie Thomson, Philip Slone, Hank Ballard, and Rachel Corrie. After him are John Aston Sr., Tony Thompson, Juha Tiainen, Malik Meraj Khalid, Road Warrior Hawk, and Rajko Žižić.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Kelly ranks 5,153 out of 7,765. Before him are Skandar Keynes (1991), Holmes Herbert (1882), David Robb (1947), Ronald Searle (1920), Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (1924), and John Arden (1930). After him are Peter Christopherson (1955), Tulisa (1988), John Glascock (1951), H. R. F. Keating (1926), Nora Stanton Barney (1883), and Marian McPartland (1918).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, David Kelly ranks 588. Before him are Harry Pollitt (1890), Donald Dewar (1937), David Davis (1948), George Lansbury (1859), Paul Radmilovic (1886), and Nick Leeson (1967). After him are Charles Rosher (1885), Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (1947), Denis Healey (1917), Kenneth Clarke (1940), Rhodri Morgan (1939), and Dominic Raab (1974).

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