1649 - 1721
Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British-American colonial administrator, and philanthropist. Although born in Boston, Massachusetts, he only lived in America as a child, spending the rest of his life in England, Wales, and India. He became a clerk for the East India Company at Fort St. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elihu Yale has received more than 1,142,060 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Elihu Yale is the 11,219th most popular politician (up from 12,504th in 2019), the 4,413th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,450th in 2019) and the 273rd most popular American Politician.
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Among politicians, Elihu Yale ranks 11,219 out of 15,577. Before him are Gaius Popillius Laenas, Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Jorge Pacheco Areco, King Yuan of Zhou, John II, Duke of Cleves, and Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu. After him are Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé, Mustafa Ould Salek, Shepenupet I, Senseneb, Mario García Menocal, and Lucius Porcius Cato.
250 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 11,213
1943 - Present
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 11,214
1920 - 1998
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 11,215
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 11,216
1458 - 1521
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 11,217
1952 - Present
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 11,218
1649 - 1721
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 11,219
1628 - 1694
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 11,220
1936 - 2012
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 11,221
800 BC - 714 BC
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 11,222
1600 BC - 1500 BC
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 11,223
1866 - 1941
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 11,224
200 BC - 89 BC
HPI: 50.53
Rank: 11,225
Among people born in 1649, Elihu Yale ranks 14. Before him are Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Jan Luyken, Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, and Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp. After him are Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels and Titus Oates. Among people deceased in 1721, Elihu Yale ranks 12. Before him are Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Johann Christoph Bach, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, and Edward Colston. After him are Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal and James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope.
1649 - 1704
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 8
1649 - 1685
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 9
1649 - 1706
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 10
1649 - 1712
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 11
1649 - 1713
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 12
1649 - 1728
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 13
1649 - 1721
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 14
1649 - 1697
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 15
1649 - 1705
HPI: 41.57
Rank: 16
1645 - 1721
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 6
1656 - 1721
HPI: 59.03
Rank: 7
1667 - 1721
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 8
1671 - 1721
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 9
1665 - 1721
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 10
1636 - 1721
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 11
1649 - 1721
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 12
1655 - 1721
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 13
1673 - 1721
HPI: 44.82
Rank: 14
Among people born in United States, Elihu Yale ranks 4,413 out of 18,182. Before him are Mae Marsh (1894), Jim Gray (1944), George C. Homans (1910), W. S. Van Dyke (1889), Charles Koch (1935), and Raymond Smith Dugan (1878). After him are David Bushnell (1742), Paul Chambers (1935), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), Todd Rundgren (1948), Charles Fort (1874), and David Zucker (1947).
1894 - 1968
HPI: 50.56
Rank: 4,407
1944 - 2007
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 4,408
1910 - 1989
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 4,409
1889 - 1943
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 4,410
1935 - Present
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 4,411
1878 - 1940
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 4,412
1649 - 1721
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 4,413
1742 - 1824
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 4,414
1935 - 1969
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 4,415
1832 - 1919
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 4,416
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 4,417
1874 - 1932
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 4,418
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.53
Rank: 4,419
Among politicians born in United States, Elihu Yale ranks 273. Before him are Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823), William R. King (1786), Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850), Robert Smith (1757), Ed Koch (1924), and Jim Gray (1944). After him are Robert Mueller (1944), Elizabeth Monroe (1768), Sanford B. Dole (1844), Ambrose Burnside (1824), Jack Sharkey (1902), and Robert Byrd (1917).
1823 - 1914
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 267
1786 - 1853
HPI: 50.70
Rank: 268
1850 - 1927
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 269
1757 - 1842
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 270
1924 - 2013
HPI: 50.58
Rank: 271
1944 - 2007
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 272
1649 - 1721
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 273
1944 - Present
HPI: 50.50
Rank: 274
1768 - 1830
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 275
1844 - 1926
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 276
1824 - 1881
HPI: 50.42
Rank: 277
1902 - 1994
HPI: 50.36
Rank: 278
1917 - 2010
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 279