1729 - 1797
Edmund Burke (; 12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher who spent most of his career in Great Britain. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of Parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party. Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Burke has received more than 4,534,730 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Edmund Burke is the 643rd most popular politician (down from 611th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Politician.
Edmund Burke is most famous for his work on the French Revolution, in which he argued that the revolution was a natural consequence of the Enlightenment and the ideas of the philosophes.
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Among politicians, Edmund Burke ranks 643 out of 15,577. Before him are Tigranes the Great, Miloš Zeman, Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu, Igor of Kiev, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, and Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy. After him are Michael I of Romania, Suharto, Kliment Voroshilov, Tiberius Gracchus, Daniel Ortega, and Benjamin Netanyahu.
140 BC - 55 BC
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 637
1944 - Present
HPI: 71.85
Rank: 638
1199 - 1231
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 639
877 - 945
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 640
1921 - 1996
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 641
1480 - 1530
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 642
1729 - 1797
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 643
1921 - 2017
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 644
1921 - 2008
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 645
1881 - 1969
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 646
163 BC - 133 BC
HPI: 71.77
Rank: 647
1945 - Present
HPI: 71.76
Rank: 648
1949 - Present
HPI: 71.75
Rank: 649
Among people born in 1729, Edmund Burke ranks 2. Before him is Catherine the Great. After him are Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Louis, Dauphin of France, Moses Mendelssohn, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Antonio Soler, Johann Daniel Titius, and Giuseppe Sarti. Among people deceased in 1797, Edmund Burke ranks 2. Before him is Baron Munchausen. After him are Mary Wollstonecraft, Frederick William II of Prussia, François-Noël Babeuf, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, James Hutton, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Vilna Gaon, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Lazare Hoche, and Joseph Wright of Derby.
1729 - 1796
HPI: 83.49
Rank: 1
1729 - 1797
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 2
1729 - 1781
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 3
1729 - 1765
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 4
1729 - 1786
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 5
1729 - 1799
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 6
1729 - 1811
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 7
1729 - 1785
HPI: 62.78
Rank: 8
1729 - 1796
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 9
1729 - 1783
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 10
1729 - 1796
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 11
1729 - 1802
HPI: 55.26
Rank: 12
1720 - 1797
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 1
1729 - 1797
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 2
1759 - 1797
HPI: 71.49
Rank: 3
1744 - 1797
HPI: 71.20
Rank: 4
1760 - 1797
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 5
1742 - 1797
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 6
1726 - 1797
HPI: 64.45
Rank: 7
1715 - 1797
HPI: 62.82
Rank: 8
1720 - 1797
HPI: 61.14
Rank: 9
1732 - 1797
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 10
1768 - 1797
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 11
1734 - 1797
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 12
Among people born in Ireland, Edmund Burke ranks 9 out of 501. Before him are Robert Boyle (1627), Jonathan Swift (1667), George Bernard Shaw (1856), George Berkeley (1685), Samuel Beckett (1906), and Michael Gambon (1940). After him are Pierce Brosnan (1953), Bram Stoker (1847), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769), William Rowan Hamilton (1805), Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819), and Francis Bacon (1909).
1627 - 1691
HPI: 78.11
Rank: 3
1667 - 1745
HPI: 77.74
Rank: 4
1856 - 1950
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 5
1685 - 1753
HPI: 76.98
Rank: 6
1906 - 1989
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 7
1940 - 2023
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 8
1729 - 1797
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 9
1953 - Present
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 10
1847 - 1912
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 11
1769 - 1852
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 12
1805 - 1865
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 13
1819 - 1903
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 14
1909 - 1992
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 15
Among politicians born in Ireland, Edmund Burke ranks 1. After him are Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769), Michael Collins (1890), Michael D. Higgins (1941), George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449), Edmund the Martyr (841), Bertie Ahern (1951), Causantín mac Cináeda (836), Harald Gille (1103), Malcolm II of Scotland (954), Brian Cowen (1960), and Brian Boru (941).
1729 - 1797
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 1
1769 - 1852
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 2
1890 - 1922
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 3
1941 - Present
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 4
1449 - 1478
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 5
841 - 869
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 6
1951 - Present
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 7
836 - 877
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 8
1103 - 1136
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 9
954 - 1034
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 10
1960 - Present
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 11
941 - 1014
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 12