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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 538,207 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Douglas Hyde is the 10,581st most popular politician (down from 8,991st in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 108th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Irish Politician.

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  • 51.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Douglas Hyde ranks 10,581 out of 15,577. Before him are Béla Imrédy, Schuyler Colfax, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Eustace I, Count of Boulogne, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, and Hiệp Hòa. After him are Sigeberht the Good, Catherine of Bulgaria, Creoda of Mercia, John Lewis, Uhuru Kenyatta, and Ansgarde of Burgundy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Douglas Hyde ranks 74. Before him are Paul Ulrich Villard, Joan Maragall, Edward MacDowell, Ottó Bláthy, William Bayliss, and Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten. After him are Emil von Reznicek, Hugo Preuß, Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Charles Lwanga, Manuel Teixeira Gomes, and Florence Harding. Among people deceased in 1949, Douglas Hyde ranks 96. Before him are Antoun Saadeh, Nikos Skalkottas, Nuri Killigil, Wallace Beery, Erich von Drygalski, and Walter Short. After him are Amadeo Giannini, Frank Morgan, Maria Ouspenskaya, Leonor Michaelis, Charles Dullin, and Elin Pelin.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Douglas Hyde ranks 130 out of 501. Before him are Dan O'Herlihy (1919), William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737), Roy Keane (1971), Charles Villiers Stanford (1852), Arthur Griffith (1871), and John Boland (1870). After him are Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), Eddie Jordan (1948), Barry Fitzgerald (1888), Sally Oldfield (1947), Coloman of Stockerau (1000), and Richard Montgomery (1738).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Douglas Hyde ranks 25. Before him are Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751), Charles Stewart Parnell (1846), Daniel O'Connell (1775), William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737), Arthur Griffith (1871), and John Boland (1870). After him are Pat Cox (1952), Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785), Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (1880), Micheál Martin (1960), Patrick Hillery (1923), and Enda Kenny (1951).

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