1911 - 1963
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (16 April 1911 – 30 August 1963) was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era. His defection in 1951 to the Soviet Union, with his fellow spy Donald Maclean, led to a serious breach in Anglo-United States intelligence co-operation, and caused long-lasting disruption and demoralisation in Britain's foreign and diplomatic services. Born into an upper middle class English family, Burgess was educated at Eton College, the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and Trinity College, Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guy Burgess has received more than 1,815,677 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Guy Burgess is the 158th most popular extremist, the 2,142nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,493rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Extremist.
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Among extremists, Guy Burgess ranks 158 out of 209. Before him are Robert Ford, Kōzō Okamoto, Mary Bell, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Yoo Young-chul, and John Wesley Hardin. After him are Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Jan-Carl Raspe, Ibn al-Khattab, Nancy Spungen, and John List.
1862 - 1892
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 152
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.36
Rank: 153
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 154
1962 - 2008
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 155
1970 - Present
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 156
1853 - 1895
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 157
1911 - 1963
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 158
1874 - 1943
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 159
1976 - 2022
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 160
1944 - 1977
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 161
1969 - 2002
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 162
1958 - 1978
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 163
1925 - 2008
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 164
Among people born in 1911, Guy Burgess ranks 130. Before him are Anatoly Rybakov, Grote Reber, Theodore Romzha, Barbara West, Prince Carl Bernadotte, and José María Arguedas. After him are Son Sann, John C. Woods, Hervé Bazin, Gabriel Almond, Leah Goldberg, and Mark Bernes. Among people deceased in 1963, Guy Burgess ranks 84. Before him are Ernst Marischka, Gustave Garrigou, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Luis Cernuda, Elmore James, and Adolphe Menjou. After him are Maria Tănase, Richard Kohn, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Ivan Bek, and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz.
1911 - 1998
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 124
1911 - 2002
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 125
1911 - 1947
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 126
1911 - 2007
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 127
1911 - 2003
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 128
1911 - 1969
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 129
1911 - 1963
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 130
1911 - 2000
HPI: 52.08
Rank: 131
1911 - 1950
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 132
1911 - 1996
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 133
1911 - 2002
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 134
1911 - 1970
HPI: 51.91
Rank: 135
1911 - 1969
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 136
1893 - 1963
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 78
1884 - 1963
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 79
1877 - 1963
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 80
1902 - 1963
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 81
1918 - 1963
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 82
1890 - 1963
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 83
1911 - 1963
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 84
1913 - 1963
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 85
1888 - 1963
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 86
1889 - 1963
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 87
1892 - 1963
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 88
1909 - 1963
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 89
1890 - 1963
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 90
Among people born in United Kingdom, Guy Burgess ranks 2,142 out of 7,765. Before him are John Bull (1562), Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1182), William of Malmesbury (1080), Damien Hirst (1965), Harold Abrahams (1899), and Herbert Chapman (1878). After him are Robert Brown (1921), Alan Price (1942), Paul Greengrass (1955), John Baskerville (1706), Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (1863), and Allan Holdsworth (1946).
1562 - 1628
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 2,136
1182 - 1241
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 2,137
1080 - 1140
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 2,138
1965 - Present
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 2,139
1899 - 1978
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 2,140
1878 - 1934
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 2,141
1911 - 1963
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 2,142
1921 - 2003
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 2,143
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 2,144
1955 - Present
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 2,145
1706 - 1775
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 2,146
1863 - 1935
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 2,147
1946 - 2017
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 2,148
Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Guy Burgess ranks 9. Before him are Harold Shipman (1946), Dennis Nilsen (1945), Peter Sutcliffe (1946), Mary Ann Cotton (1832), John Adams (1767), and Mary Bell (1957). After him are Fred West (1941), John Haigh (1909), John Christie (1899), John Bodkin Adams (1899), Jonathan Wild (1683), and Dick Turpin (1705).
1946 - 2004
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 3
1945 - 2018
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 4
1946 - 2020
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 5
1832 - 1873
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 6
1767 - 1829
HPI: 54.08
Rank: 7
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 8
1911 - 1963
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 9
1941 - 1995
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 10
1909 - 1949
HPI: 50.06
Rank: 11
1899 - 1953
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 12
1899 - 1983
HPI: 49.34
Rank: 13
1683 - 1725
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 14
1705 - 1739
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 15