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Eric Williams

1911 - 1981

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Eric Eustace Williams (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) was a Trinidad and Tobago politician. He has been described as the "Father of the Nation", having led the then-British Colony of Trinidad and Tobago to majority rule on 28 October 1956, to independence on 31 August 1962, and republic status on 1 August 1976, leading an unbroken string of general elections victories with his political party, the People's National Movement, until his death in 1981. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Williams has received more than 669,414 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Eric Williams is the 16,731st most popular politician (down from 15,076th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Trinidad and Tobago (down from 19th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Trinidadian Politician.

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  • 43.03

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Eric Williams ranks 16,731 out of 19,576. Before her are Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei, Avril Haines, Anky van Grunsven, Jake Sullivan, Djoomart Otorbaev, and Tomislav Karamarko. After her are Marcus Stephen, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein, Albino Jara, Adolf Lu Hitler Marak, and Katrin Göring-Eckardt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Eric Williams ranks 369. Before her are Johan van Hulst, Héctor Freschi, Val Guest, Joseph Pevney, Rudolf Kotormány, and Kristina Brenk. After her are Helmut Braselmann, Alfons Dorfner, Donald Piper, George Szekeres, Ruth Ford, and Josef Krejci. Among people deceased in 1981, Eric Williams ranks 264. Before her are Zoltán Huszárik, Boris Sagal, Adele Astaire, Alberto Héber Usher, Nikolai Tishchenko, and Robert Russell Bennett. After her are Margaret Lindsay, David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, Louis Kuehn, Sam Jones, Pierre Korb, and Harry Chapin.

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In Trinidad and Tobago

Among people born in Trinidad and Tobago, Eric Williams ranks 24 out of 71. Before her are C. L. R. James (1901), Hasely Crawford (1950), George Padmore (1903), Lorraine Toussaint (1960), Christine Kangaloo (1961), and Anthony Carmona (1953). After her are Kamla Persad-Bissessar (1952), Patrick Manning (1946), McDonald Bailey (1920), Anthony Nesty (1967), Marian Marsh (1913), and Ellis Clarke (1917).

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Among POLITICIANS In Trinidad and Tobago

Among politicians born in Trinidad and Tobago, Eric Williams ranks 8. Before her are George Maxwell Richards (1931), Paula-Mae Weekes (1958), Basdeo Panday (1933), A. N. R. Robinson (1926), Christine Kangaloo (1961), and Anthony Carmona (1953). After her are Kamla Persad-Bissessar (1952), Patrick Manning (1946), Ellis Clarke (1917), and Noor Hassanali (1918).

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