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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 503,369 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Empress Lü is the 1,627th most popular politician (down from 1,622nd in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from China (up from 117th in 2019) and the 74th 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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  • 66.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Empress Lü ranks 1,627 out of 15,577. Before her are Olybrius, Celâl Bayar, Libius Severus, Crazy Horse, Pharamond, and Ptolemy IX Lathyros. After her are Axel Oxenstierna, Josef Kramer, Šuppiluliuma I, Shinzō Abe, Soong Mei-ling, and Mago Barca.

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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 Aristophanes of Byzantium, Emperor Houshao of Han, Brihadratha Maurya, Diocles, Demetrius I of Bactria, and Lucius Valerius Flaccus.

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In China

Among people born in China, Empress Lü ranks 113 out of 1,392. Before her are Jiajing Emperor (1507), Chenghua Emperor (1447), Emperor Renzong of Song (1010), Zhao Ziyang (1919), Walter Houser Brattain (1902), and Yuan Shao (154). After her are Soong Mei-ling (1897), Yue Fei (1142), King Wu of Zhou (-1150), Shen Kuo (1031), Emperor Jing of Han (-188), and Emperor Wen of Han (-202).

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Empress Lü ranks 74. Before her are Jiang Ziya (-1090), Jiajing Emperor (1507), Chenghua Emperor (1447), Emperor Renzong of Song (1010), Zhao Ziyang (1919), and Yuan Shao (154). After her are Soong Mei-ling (1897), King Wu of Zhou (-1150), Emperor Jing of Han (-188), Emperor Wen of Han (-202), Emperor Guangwu of Han (-5), and Li Xiannian (1909).

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