1755 - 1794
Georges Auguste Couthon (22 December 1755 – 28 July 1794) was a French politician and lawyer known for his service as a deputy in the Legislative Assembly during the French Revolution. Couthon was elected to the Committee of Public Safety on 30 May 1793 and served as a close associate of Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just until his arrest and execution in 1794 during the period of the Reign of Terror. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Couthon has received more than 116,709 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Georges Couthon is the 2,465th most popular politician (down from 2,376th in 2019), the 862nd most popular biography from France (down from 811th in 2019) and the 200th most popular French Politician.
Georges Couthon was a French lawyer and politician who was a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. He is most famous for his role in the trial and execution of King Louis XVI.
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Among politicians, Georges Couthon ranks 2,465 out of 15,710. Before him are György Dózsa, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Postumus, Hacı I Giray, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and Antiochus VII Sidetes. After him are Aşub Sultan, Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, and John, Duke of Berry.
1470 - 1514
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 2,459
1671 - 1737
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 2,460
250 - 269
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 2,461
1397 - 1466
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 2,462
1920 - 2016
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 2,463
159 BC - 129 BC
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 2,464
1755 - 1794
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 2,465
1627 - 1689
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 2,466
1174 - 1237
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 2,467
1943 - Present
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 2,468
1949 - Present
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 2,469
1776 - 1847
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 2,470
1340 - 1416
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 2,471
Among people born in 1755, Georges Couthon ranks 10. Before him are Samuel Hahnemann, Axel von Fersen the Younger, Paul Barras, James Parkinson, Alexander Hamilton, and Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. After him are François Joseph Lefebvre, Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Anthony of Saxony, and Natalia Alexeievna. Among people deceased in 1794, Georges Couthon ranks 12. Before him are Cesare Beccaria, Edward Gibbon, Camille Desmoulins, Jacques Hébert, Élisabeth of France, and André Chénier. After him are Alexandre de Beauharnais, Nicolas Chamfort, William Jones, Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Rudolf Erich Raspe, and Augustin Robespierre.
1755 - 1843
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 4
1755 - 1810
HPI: 75.52
Rank: 5
1755 - 1829
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 6
1755 - 1824
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 7
1755 - 1804
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 8
1755 - 1826
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 9
1755 - 1794
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 10
1755 - 1820
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 11
1755 - 1818
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 12
1755 - 1813
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 13
1755 - 1824
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 14
1755 - 1836
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 15
1755 - 1776
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 16
1738 - 1794
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 6
1737 - 1794
HPI: 76.25
Rank: 7
1760 - 1794
HPI: 75.71
Rank: 8
1757 - 1794
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 9
1764 - 1794
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 10
1762 - 1794
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 11
1755 - 1794
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 12
1760 - 1794
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 13
1741 - 1794
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 14
1746 - 1794
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 15
1711 - 1794
HPI: 70.29
Rank: 16
1736 - 1794
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 17
1763 - 1794
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 18
Among people born in France, Georges Couthon ranks 862 out of 5,234. Before him are Jean Nouvel (1945), Pierre Augereau (1757), Jules Grévy (1807), Antoine Galland (1646), René Lalique (1860), and Hubert de Givenchy (1927). After him are John, Duke of Berry (1340), Ivo of Kermartin (1253), Émile Borel (1871), Joan the Lame (1293), François Christophe de Kellermann (1735), and Lorin Maazel (1930).
1945 - Present
HPI: 71.88
Rank: 856
1757 - 1816
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 857
1807 - 1891
HPI: 71.86
Rank: 858
1646 - 1715
HPI: 71.85
Rank: 859
1860 - 1945
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 860
1927 - 2018
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 861
1755 - 1794
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 862
1340 - 1416
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 863
1253 - 1303
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 864
1871 - 1956
HPI: 71.79
Rank: 865
1293 - 1349
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 866
1735 - 1820
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 867
1930 - 2014
HPI: 71.76
Rank: 868
Among politicians born in France, Georges Couthon ranks 200. Before him are Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754), Ariovistus (-101), Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy (1143), Émile Loubet (1838), Louis the Blind (880), and Jules Grévy (1807). After him are John, Duke of Berry (1340), Dagobert II (650), Hans-Georg von Friedeburg (1895), Auguste Mariette (1821), Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry (1778), and Fulk, King of Jerusalem (1092).
1754 - 1793
HPI: 71.94
Rank: 194
101 BC - 54 BC
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 195
1143 - 1184
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 196
1838 - 1929
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 197
880 - 928
HPI: 71.88
Rank: 198
1807 - 1891
HPI: 71.86
Rank: 199
1755 - 1794
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 200
1340 - 1416
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 201
650 - 679
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 202
1895 - 1945
HPI: 71.69
Rank: 203
1821 - 1881
HPI: 71.67
Rank: 204
1778 - 1820
HPI: 71.67
Rank: 205
1092 - 1143
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 206