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Ed Balls

1967 - Today

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Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a British broadcaster, economist and former politician who served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families from 2007 to 2010, and as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011 to 2015. A member of Labour Co-op, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton and later for Morley and Outwood between 2005 and 2015. Balls attended Nottingham High School before he studied philosophy, politics and economics at Keble College, Oxford, and was later a Kennedy Scholar in economics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ed Balls has received more than 3,169,326 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ed Balls is the 17,624th most popular politician (down from 15,505th in 2019), the 6,904th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,063rd in 2019) and the 684th most popular British Politician.

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  • 3.2M

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  • 24.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ed Balls ranks 17,624 out of 15,577Before him are Peter Dutton, Brad Henry, Mariya Gromova, Xu Li, Ed Perlmutter, and Aki Takayama. After him are Rory Stewart, Dotsie Bausch, Petrissa Solja, Robert Gibbs, Pramila Jayapal, and Pete Sessions.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Ed Balls ranks 777Before him are Malini Awasthi, Quinn Cummings, Hiroaki Nagashima, Andre Arendse, Hollis Conway, and Bill Shorten. After him are Esther McVey, Tony Leondis, Barnaby Joyce, Makoto Atsuta, Efan Ekoku, and Nandana Sen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ed Balls ranks 6,904 out of 7,765Before him are Todd Bennett (1962), Alma Deutscher (2005), Emma Pooley (1982), Mark Robins (1969), Foxes (1989), and DJ Fresh (1977). After him are Robbie Earle (1965), Lauren Socha (1990), Thomas Turgoose (1992), Victoria Pendleton (1980), Shane Duffy (1992), and Nicole Cooke (1983).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Ed Balls ranks 684Before him are Oliver Letwin (1956), Clarissa Ward (1980), Patrick McLoughlin (1957), Alan Duncan (1957), Justine Greening (1969), and Gavin Williamson (1976). After him are Esther McVey (1967), Omar Abdullah (1970), John Whittingdale (1959), David Mundell (1962), Jo Swinson (1980), and Yvette Cooper (1969).