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Gough Whitlam

1916 - 2014

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Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 1916 – 21 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), of which he was the longest-serving. He was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive administration that ended with his removal as prime minister after controversially being dismissed by the governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 constitutional crisis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gough Whitlam has received more than 1,987,163 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Gough Whitlam is the 12,515th most popular politician (down from 11,702nd in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Australia (up from 148th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Australian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gough Whitlam ranks 12,515 out of 15,577. Before him are Jan Sokol, Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, Muhammad Azam Shah, Marcel Cachin, Anatoli Firsov, and Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus. After him are Gaius Atilius Regulus Serranus, Publius Decius Mus, Manuel Gómez Pedraza, Roman Golovchenko, Diego Portales, and Marwan Barghouti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Gough Whitlam ranks 168. Before him are Rostislav Alexeyev, Adriana Caselotti, Hidetoki Takahashi, Robert Charpentier, Tinus Osendarp, and Edward Platt. After him are Robert Parrish, Budd Boetticher, George Sidney, Harry James, Anna Yegorova, and Yekaterina Zelenko. Among people deceased in 2014, Gough Whitlam ranks 232. Before him are Bobby Keys, Durdy Bayramov, René Llense, Pierre Bec, Dave Legeno, and Lilli Carati. After him are Ernie Terrell, Bel Kaufman, Abdul Qadir, James Shigeta, Małgorzata Braunek, and Victor J. Stenger.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Gough Whitlam ranks 138 out of 925. Before him are Radha Mitchell (1973), Don Bradman (1908), Phoebe Tonkin (1989), John Farrow (1904), Richard Roxburgh (1962), and Mae Busch (1891). After him are Jacki Weaver (1947), Miranda Kerr (1983), Albert Namatjira (1902), Yagan (1800), Ben Mendelsohn (1969), and James Wolfensohn (1933).

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Among POLITICIANS In Australia

Among politicians born in Australia, Gough Whitlam ranks 11. Before him are John Curtin (1885), Kevin Rudd (1957), Malcolm Turnbull (1954), Bob Hawke (1929), Robert Menzies (1894), and Edmund Barton (1849). After him are Malcolm Fraser (1930), Dawn Fraser (1937), William Deane (1931), Paul Keating (1944), Alfred Deakin (1856), and William McMahon (1908).

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