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Donald Maclean

1913 - 1983

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Donald Duart Maclean (; 25 May 1913 – 6 March 1983) was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent who participated in the Cambridge Five spy ring. After being recruited by a Soviet agent as an undergraduate student, Maclean entered the civil service. In 1938, he was appointed as Third Secretary at the British embassy in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Donald Maclean has received more than 12,545 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Donald Maclean is the 8,851st most popular politician (down from 7,306th in 2019), the 1,772nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,529th in 2019) and the 273rd most popular British Politician.

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  • 61.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Donald Maclean ranks 8,851 out of 19,576. Before him are Michael Szilágyi, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Anatoly Lukyanov, Hethum I, King of Armenia, Ihor Kolomoyskyi, and Lu Xiufu. After him are Julius Raab, Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Theodora Angelina, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco, and Shintaro Abe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Donald Maclean ranks 130. Before him are Heinrich Bär, Mouloud Feraoun, William Tolbert, Albert Cossery, Anthony Quayle, and Alexander Kotov. After him are Charles Berlitz, Amrita Sher-Gil, Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, Géza Kalocsay, George Koval, and Véra Clouzot. Among people deceased in 1983, Donald Maclean ranks 85. Before him are Ivan Vinogradov, Anthony Blunt, Ferenc Plattkó, Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt, Rolf Stommelen, and Jørgen Juve. After him are Ángel Labruna, Lamberto Maggiorani, Florence Owens Thompson, Salo Flohr, Grigori Aleksandrov, and Hennes Weisweiler.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Donald Maclean ranks 1,772 out of 8,785. Before him are Taliesin (518), Saint Alban (300), Amy Johnson (1903), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), Peter Lawford (1923), and Peter Vaughan (1923). After him are Mark Hollis (1955), Paul Di'Anno (1958), Reginald Lee (1870), Keith Flint (1969), William Sealy Gosset (1876), and Fred West (1941).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Donald Maclean ranks 273. Before him are Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1870), Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862), Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640), Owain Glyndŵr (1359), Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475), and Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215). After him are Asma al-Assad (1975), Ernest Bevin (1881), Elizabeth Tudor (1492), Sid Watkins (1928), Margaret Douglas (1515), and Emma Darwin (1808).

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