POLITICIAN

Gideon

1140 BC - 1080 BC

Gideon

Gideon (; Hebrew: גִּדְעוֹן, Modern: Gīdʿōn, Tiberian: Gīḏəʿōn) also named Jerubbaal and Jerubbesheth, was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites are recounted in Judges 6–8 of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. Gideon was the son of Joash, from the Abiezrite clan in the tribe of Manasseh and lived in Ephra (Ophrah). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gideon has received more than 2,682,025 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Gideon is the 695th most popular politician (down from 538th in 2019).

Gideon is most famous for his victory in the case of Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the requirement for indigent criminal defendants to be provided with attorneys.

Memorability Metrics

2.7M
Page Views (PV)
71.68
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
38
Languages Editions (L)
8.83
Effective Languages (L*)
2.74
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gideons by language

Over the past year Gideon has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 341,344 views, followed by Spanish (112,076), and Portuguese (59,133). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Estonian (88.18%), Korean (87.40%), and Malagasy (41.24%)