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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 December 1972 to November 1975. To date the longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive government that ended with his controversial dismissal by the then-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 2,132,690 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Gough Whitlam is the 1,051st most popular politician (up from 12,472nd in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Australia (up from 138th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Politician.

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  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 22.78

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  • 1.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gough Whitlam ranks 1,051 out of 19,576. Before him are Frederick VII of Denmark, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Olaf II of Denmark, Lee Myung-bak, Abijah of Judah, and Feodor III of Russia. After him are Muhammad XII of Granada, Decebalus, Benjamin Disraeli, Louis IV of France, Trygve Lie, and Chongzhen Emperor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Gough Whitlam ranks 12. Before him are Roald Dahl, Gregory Peck, Francis Crick, Aldo Moro, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, and Hans-Ulrich Rudel. After him are Claude Shannon, João Havelange, Ahmed Ben Bella, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Handler, and Harold Wilson. Among people deceased in 2014, Gough Whitlam ranks 12. Before him are Eduard Shevardnadze, Claudio Abbado, Luis Aragonés, Joe Cocker, Wojciech Jaruzelski, and Eli Wallach. After him are Hiroo Onoda, Alexander Grothendieck, Nadine Gordimer, Maximilian Schell, Jacques Le Goff, and Paco de Lucía.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Gough Whitlam ranks 2 out of 1,143. Before him are Lawrence Bragg (1890). After him are Geoffrey Rush (1951), Rod Laver (1938), Sia (1975), Rupert Murdoch (1931), George Lazenby (1939), Truganini (1812), Cate Blanchett (1969), Elton Mayo (1880), Chris Hemsworth (1983), and Alexander Prokhorov (1916).

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Among POLITICIANS In Australia

Among politicians born in Australia, Gough Whitlam ranks 1. After him are David Hurley (1953), Harold Holt (1908), John Howard (1939), Anthony Albanese (1963), John Curtin (1885), Edmund Barton (1849), Bob Hawke (1929), Kevin Rudd (1957), Robert Menzies (1894), Bill Hayden (1933), and Peter Scully (1963).

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