POLITICIAN

Denis Healey

1917 - 2015

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Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, (30 August 1917 – 3 October 2015) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970; he remains the longest-serving Defence Secretary to date. He was a Member of Parliament from 1952 to 1992, and was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Denis Healey has received more than 1,148,653 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Denis Healey is the 16,852nd most popular politician (down from 15,895th in 2019), the 5,206th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,195th in 2019) and the 596th most popular British Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Denis Healeys by language

Over the past year Denis Healey has had the most page views in the with 112,875 views, followed by Simple English (3,853), and German (2,436). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Arabic (277.93%), Cornish (189.74%), and Malagasy (138.46%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Denis Healey ranks 16,852 out of 19,576. Before him are Yusra Mardini, Bahadur Shah of Gujarat, Eduardo Riedel, Pierre Laurent, Isabel Celaá, and Francia Márquez. After him are Richard Bassett, Maksim Tarasov, Feargus O'Connor, Francisco Álvarez-Cascos, Justo Figuerola, and Hussein Farrah Aidid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Denis Healey ranks 314. Before him are Valerie Hobson, Mikhail Anikushin, W. T. Tutte, Vera Zorina, Walter Munk, and Merle Travis. After him are Lassi Parkkinen, Elyse Knox, Isabel Sanford, Katherine Rawls, Brenda Joyce, and Lou Harrison. Among people deceased in 2015, Denis Healey ranks 443. Before him are Gene Saks, Peter Kern, Alberta Watson, Nicolás Fuentes, Marian Szeja, and Anne-Marie Lizin. After him are Sergio Caprari, Donna Douglas, Francis George, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Ferenc Juhász, and Abu Anas al-Libi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Denis Healey ranks 5,206 out of 8,785. Before him are Duffy (1984), Joan Greenwood (1921), Thomas Allen (1944), Julian Bailey (1961), Edmund Rubbra (1901), and Tony Robinson (1946). After him are Prideaux John Selby (1788), Trevor Ford (1923), Ted Morgan (1906), Montagu Love (1877), Stigand (null), and Ian Raby (1921).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Denis Healey ranks 596. Before him are William Lyon Mackenzie (1795), Nellie Sengupta (1886), William Paterson (1745), Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (1705), Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch (1748), and John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon (1873). After him are James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612), Jeremy Hunt (1966), Donald Dewar (1937), Jo Cox (1974), Harriet Harman (1950), and John Bercow (1963).

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