1916 - 2014
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, 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.
1936 - 2021
HPI: 48.57
Rank: 12,509
1880 - 1944
HPI: 48.57
Rank: 12,510
1653 - 1707
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 12,511
1869 - 1958
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 12,512
1941 - 2000
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 12,513
300 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 12,514
1916 - 2014
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 12,515
300 BC - 201 BC
HPI: 48.55
Rank: 12,516
400 BC - 279 BC
HPI: 48.55
Rank: 12,517
1789 - 1851
HPI: 48.55
Rank: 12,518
1973 - Present
HPI: 48.55
Rank: 12,519
1793 - 1837
HPI: 48.55
Rank: 12,520
1959 - Present
HPI: 48.55
Rank: 12,521
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.
1916 - 1980
HPI: 49.02
Rank: 162
1916 - 1997
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 163
1916 - 2000
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 164
1916 - 1966
HPI: 48.91
Rank: 165
1916 - 2002
HPI: 48.70
Rank: 166
1916 - 1974
HPI: 48.58
Rank: 167
1916 - 2014
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 168
1916 - 1995
HPI: 48.50
Rank: 169
1916 - 2001
HPI: 48.49
Rank: 170
1916 - 2002
HPI: 48.43
Rank: 171
1916 - 1983
HPI: 48.42
Rank: 172
1916 - 2009
HPI: 48.38
Rank: 173
1916 - 1941
HPI: 48.33
Rank: 174
1943 - 2014
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 226
1938 - 2014
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 227
1913 - 2014
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 228
1921 - 2014
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 229
1963 - 2014
HPI: 48.68
Rank: 230
1956 - 2014
HPI: 48.68
Rank: 231
1916 - 2014
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 232
1939 - 2014
HPI: 48.50
Rank: 233
1911 - 2014
HPI: 48.49
Rank: 234
1944 - 2014
HPI: 48.48
Rank: 235
1929 - 2014
HPI: 48.48
Rank: 236
1947 - 2014
HPI: 48.46
Rank: 237
1935 - 2014
HPI: 48.37
Rank: 238
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).
1973 - Present
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 132
1908 - 2001
HPI: 48.76
Rank: 133
1989 - Present
HPI: 48.69
Rank: 134
1904 - 1963
HPI: 48.67
Rank: 135
1962 - Present
HPI: 48.61
Rank: 136
1891 - 1946
HPI: 48.58
Rank: 137
1916 - 2014
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 138
1947 - Present
HPI: 48.55
Rank: 139
1983 - Present
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 140
1902 - 1959
HPI: 48.45
Rank: 141
1800 - 1833
HPI: 48.42
Rank: 142
1969 - Present
HPI: 48.36
Rank: 143
1933 - 2020
HPI: 48.29
Rank: 144
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).
1885 - 1945
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 5
1957 - Present
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 6
1954 - Present
HPI: 49.89
Rank: 7
1929 - 2019
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 8
1894 - 1978
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 9
1849 - 1920
HPI: 49.04
Rank: 10
1916 - 2014
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 11
1930 - 2015
HPI: 48.10
Rank: 12
1937 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 13
1931 - Present
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 14
1944 - Present
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 15
1856 - 1919
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 16
1908 - 1988
HPI: 46.34
Rank: 17