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Edmund Burke

1729 - 1797

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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

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Ireland

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).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

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).

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