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Gerry Adams

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Gerard Adams (Irish: Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; born 6 October 1948) is a retired Irish republican politician who was the president of Sinn Féin between 13 November 1983 and 10 February 2018, and served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth from 2011–2020. From 1983–1992 and from 1997–2011, he won election as a Member of Parliament (MP) of the UK Parliament for the Belfast West constituency, but followed the Sinn Féin policy of abstentionism. Adams first became involved in Irish republicanism in the late 1960s, and was an established figure in Irish activism for more than a decade before his 1983 election to Parliament. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerry Adams has received more than 4,985,232 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Gerry Adams is the 10,767th most popular politician (up from 10,916th in 2019), the 2,230th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,392nd in 2019) and the 335th most popular British Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gerry Adams ranks 10,767 out of 19,576. Before him are Pierre Basile, Ahmad Qavam, Vasily Golitsyn, Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia, Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux, and John Curtin. After him are Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg, Juho Vennola, Alvise Pisani, Alcetas, Theodora Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem, and Hồ Quý Ly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Gerry Adams ranks 257. Before him are Gérard Darmon, Tony Ramos, Michael Berryman, Avi Arad, Theo Jörgensmann, and Susan Blakely. After him are José José, Davíð Oddsson, Bernard Thévenet, Muse Watson, Clarence Thomas, and Carol Potter.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gerry Adams ranks 2,230 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Wilson (1714), Joseph Fiennes (1970), Mark Williams (1959), William Robert Grove (1811), Rufus Sewell (1967), and Richard Chancellor (1521). After him are Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455), Dionysios Kasdaglis (1872), Michelle Fairley (1964), Bridget Riley (1931), George S. Robertson (1872), and Phil Jones (1992).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Gerry Adams ranks 335. Before him are Henry Percy (1364), Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874), Joseph Lancaster (1778), Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924), and William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773). After him are Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455), Dionysios Kasdaglis (1872), Andrew Moray (1265), James Harrington (1611), Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889), and Margaret of England (1240).

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