POLITICIAN

Empress Lü

241 BC - 180 BC

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Lü Zhi (241–18 August 180 BC), courtesy name E'xu (娥姁) and commonly known as Empress Lü (traditional Chinese: 呂后; simplified Chinese: 吕后; pinyin: Lǚ Hòu) and formally Empress Gao of Han (漢高后; 汉高后; Hàn Gāo Hòu), was the empress consort of Gaozu, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty. They had two known children, Liu Ying (later Emperor Hui of Han) and Princess Yuan of Lu. Lü was the first woman to assume the title Empress of China and paramount power. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Empress Lü has received more than 548,090 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Empress Lü is the 1,641st most popular politician (down from 1,622nd in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from China (down from 112th in 2019) and the 76th most popular Chinese Politician.

Empress Lü was most famous for being the first woman to rule China in her own right.

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  • 550k

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  • 66.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Empress Lü ranks 1,641 out of 19,576. Before her are Li Keqiang, Rodion Malinovsky, Henry, King of Portugal, Oruç Reis, Critias, and Aung San. After her are Ferdinand Marcos, Robert, Count of Clermont, Charles II of Naples, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Cemal Gürsel, and Publius Clodius Pulcher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 241 BC, Empress Lü ranks 2. Before her is Antiochus III the Great.  Among people deceased in 180 BC, Empress Lü ranks 2. Before her is Ptolemy V Epiphanes. After her are Emperor Houshao of Han, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Diocles, Brihadratha Maurya, Demetrius I of Bactria, and Lucius Valerius Flaccus.

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In China

Among people born in China, Empress Lü ranks 117 out of 1,610. Before her are Zhao Yun (168), Hu Yaobang (1915), I. M. Pei (1917), Luo Guanzhong (1330), Li Keqiang (1955), and Wu Cheng'en (1500). After her are Li Zicheng (1606), Zhao Ziyang (1919), Bao Zheng (999), Chiang Ching-kuo (1910), Milarepa (1052), and Songtsen Gampo (604).

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Empress Lü ranks 76. Before her are Yuan Shao (154), Lin Biao (1907), Soong Mei-ling (1897), Temür Khan (1265), Hu Yaobang (1915), and Li Keqiang (1955). After her are Li Zicheng (1606), Zhao Ziyang (1919), Bao Zheng (999), Chiang Ching-kuo (1910), Songtsen Gampo (604), and Hyeonjong of Joseon (1641).

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