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David Trimble

1944 - 2022

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William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, (15 October 1944 – 25 July 2022) was a Northern Irish politician who was the inaugural First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002, and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1995 to 2005. He was also Member of Parliament (MP) for Upper Bann from 1990 to 2005 and Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann from 1998 to 2007. Trimble began his career teaching law at The Queen's University of Belfast in the 1970s, during which time he began to get involved with the paramilitary-linked Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party (VPUP). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Trimble has received more than 840,018 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). David Trimble is the 8,436th most popular politician (up from 10,238th in 2019), the 1,671st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,199th in 2019) and the 260th most popular British Politician.

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  • 840k

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  • 55.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, David Trimble ranks 8,436 out of 19,576. Before him are René Moawad, Publius Decius Mus, Vladislav I of Wallachia, Võ Chí Công, Eduard Strasburger, and Berdi Beg. After him are Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Pak Song-chol, King Yi of Zhou, Taspar Qaghan, and Ahmed Abdallah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, David Trimble ranks 215. Before him are Taylor Hackford, Ronald Lauder, Tom Okker, Brian Weiss, Ram Chandra Poudel, and Peter Lindbergh. After him are Masanobu Izumi, Hugo Gatti, Rory Byrne, Billy Cobham, Aguila Saleh Issa, and Candy Darling. Among people deceased in 2022, David Trimble ranks 141. Before him are Jean-Jacques Beineix, Joachim Streich, Nick Holonyak, Juris Hartmanis, Reine Wisell, and Nichelle Nichols. After him are Leonid Kuravlyov, Kenneth Tsang, John Aniston, Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Raymond Damadian, and Joe Turkel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Trimble ranks 1,671 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Rowlandson (1756), Dixie Dean (1907), Paul Freeman (1943), John Lydon (1956), Ralph Richardson (1902), and Eric Campbell (1880). After him are David A. Stewart (1952), Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (1783), Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415), Ken Russell (1927), James Cosmo (1947), and Peter Collins (1931).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, David Trimble ranks 260. Before him are Jeffrey Archer (1940), Princess Mary of Great Britain (1723), George Grenville (1712), Margaret Bondfield (1873), William Hamilton (1730), and Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886). After him are Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (1783), Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766), Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (1477), Lulach (1030), Eadgifu of Wessex (null), and Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777).

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