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Douglas Hyde

1860 - 1949

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Douglas Ross Hyde (Irish: Dubhghlas de hÍde; 17 January 1860 – 12 July 1949), known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn (lit. transl. the pleasant little branch), was an Irish academic, linguist, scholar of the Irish language, politician, and diplomat who served as the first president of Ireland from June 1938 to June 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Hyde has received more than 576,093 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Douglas Hyde is the 10,699th most popular politician (down from 10,552nd in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 129th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Irish Politician.

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  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Douglas Hyde ranks 10,699 out of 19,576. Before him are George of Antioch, Guido Westerwelle, Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia, Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, Kyuichi Tokuda, and Marco Cornaro. After him are Nataša Kandić, Nitish Kumar, Gungunum, Valdis Dombrovskis, Ahmed Aboutaleb, and Bagyidaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Douglas Hyde ranks 78. Before him are Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Carl Anton Larsen, William Bayliss, André Prévost, Max von Oppenheim, and Ottó Bláthy. After him are Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Franz Nissl, Florence Harding, Henrietta Szold, Joan Maragall, and Charles Lwanga. Among people deceased in 1949, Douglas Hyde ranks 92. Before him are Boris Asafyev, Tan Malaka, Otto Nerz, Martin Knudsen, Alfred J. Lotka, and Jankel Adler. After him are Antoun Saadeh, Ehmetjan Qasim, Damaskinos of Athens, Charles Dullin, John Haigh, and Nikos Skalkottas.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Douglas Hyde ranks 115 out of 549. Before him are Richard Montgomery (1738), G. E. M. Anscombe (1919), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), Cornelius Ryan (1920), Colm Meaney (1953), and Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760). After him are Grace O'Malley (1530), George Abraham Grierson (1851), Daniel O'Connell (1775), William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737), Jim Sheridan (1949), and Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Douglas Hyde ranks 21. Before him are Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769), Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785), Arthur Griffith (1871), Constantine III of Scotland (971), John Boland (1870), and Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760). After him are Daniel O'Connell (1775), William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751), Charles Stewart Parnell (1846), Pat Cox (1952), and John Bruton (1947).

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