1770 - 1827
George Canning (11 April 1770 – 8 August 1827) was a British Tory statesman. He held various senior cabinet positions under numerous prime ministers, including two important terms as Foreign Secretary, finally becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the last 119 days of his life, from April to August 1827. The son of an actress and a failed businessman and lawyer, Canning was supported financially by his uncle, Stratford Canning, which allowed him to attend Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Canning has received more than 843,219 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). George Canning is the 5,436th most popular politician (down from 4,683rd in 2019), the 1,155th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,045th in 2019) and the 196th most popular British Politician.
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Among politicians, George Canning ranks 5,436 out of 15,577. Before him are George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford, Gyula Horn, Solamish, Philip I, Count of Flanders, Nicomedes I of Bithynia, and Domitianus II. After him are Vikramaditya, Anytus, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Ida Haendel, Boris Pugo, and Canute II of Sweden.
1504 - 1536
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 5,430
1932 - 2013
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 5,431
1272 - 1291
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 5,432
1142 - 1191
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 5,433
300 BC - 250 BC
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 5,434
300 - 271
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 5,435
1770 - 1827
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 5,436
102 BC - Present
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 5,437
500 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 5,438
1723 - 1787
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 5,439
1928 - 2020
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 5,440
1937 - 1991
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 5,441
1200 - 1234
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 5,442
Among people born in 1770, George Canning ranks 20. Before him are Theodoros Kolokotronis, Ferdinando Carulli, Pierre Cambronne, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Alexandre Pétion, and Manuel Belgrano. After him are Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano, Dominique Vandamme, Sequoyah, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Jean Maximilien Lamarque, and François Étienne de Kellermann. Among people deceased in 1827, George Canning ranks 15. Before him are Samuel Crompton, Maria Theresa of Austria, Ugo Foscolo, Ernst Chladni, Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, and Wilhelm Müller. After him are Robert Surcouf, Michel-Gabriel Paccard, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Thomas Rowlandson, Georgios Karaiskakis, and Charlotte von Stein.
1770 - 1843
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 14
1770 - 1841
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 15
1770 - 1842
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 16
1770 - 1831
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 17
1770 - 1818
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 18
1770 - 1820
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 19
1770 - 1827
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 20
1770 - 1800
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 21
1770 - 1830
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 22
1770 - 1843
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 23
1770 - 1840
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 24
1770 - 1832
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 25
1770 - 1835
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 26
1753 - 1827
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 9
1767 - 1827
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 10
1778 - 1827
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 11
1756 - 1827
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 12
1773 - 1827
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 13
1794 - 1827
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 14
1770 - 1827
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 15
1773 - 1827
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 16
1757 - 1827
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 17
1763 - 1827
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 18
1756 - 1827
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 19
1780 - 1827
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 20
1742 - 1827
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 21
Among people born in United Kingdom, George Canning ranks 1,155 out of 7,765. Before him are Evelyn Waugh (1903), Allen Carr (1934), James Black (1924), William Adelin (1103), George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford (1504), and Jimmy Greaves (1940). After him are Leopold Stokowski (1882), Elizabeth Blount (1500), Paul Scofield (1922), Alfonso de Portago (1928), Glenn Hughes (1951), and Albert Hammond (1944).
1903 - 1966
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 1,149
1934 - 2006
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 1,150
1924 - 2010
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 1,151
1103 - 1120
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 1,152
1504 - 1536
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 1,153
1940 - 2021
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 1,154
1770 - 1827
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 1,155
1882 - 1977
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 1,156
1500 - 1539
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 1,157
1922 - 2008
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 1,158
1928 - 1957
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 1,159
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 1,160
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 1,161
Among politicians born in United Kingdom, George Canning ranks 196. Before him are Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (1517), Arthur Drewry (1891), Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803), Francis Walsingham (1532), John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504), and George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford (1504). After him are Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1375), Chris Patten (1944), Blanche of Lancaster (1345), Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287), Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), and Joan of Kent (1328).
1517 - 1559
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 190
1891 - 1961
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 191
1803 - 1873
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 192
1532 - 1590
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 193
1504 - 1553
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 194
1504 - 1536
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 195
1770 - 1827
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 196
1375 - 1415
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 197
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 198
1345 - 1368
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 199
1287 - 1330
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 200
1884 - 1966
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 201
1328 - 1385
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 202