POLITICIAN

Hai Rui

1514 - 1587

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Hai Rui (January 23, 1514 – November 13, 1587), courtesy name Ru Xian (汝賢), art name Gang Feng (剛峰), was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Ming dynasty, remembered as a model of honesty and integrity in office. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hai Rui has received more than 101,383 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Hai Rui is the 9,869th most popular politician (down from 9,356th in 2019), the 683rd most popular biography from China (down from 632nd in 2019) and the 373rd most popular Chinese Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hai Rui ranks 9,869 out of 19,576. Before him are Constantine III of Scotland, Leo IV, King of Armenia, Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Zeng Qinghong, Maria Dobroniega of Kiev, and Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar. After him are Al-Adil Kitbugha, Æthelbald of Mercia, Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Józef Wybicki, Israel Katz, and Constantin Ion Parhon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1514, Hai Rui ranks 10. Before him are Georg Joachim Rheticus, Philibert de l'Orme, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Claude Goudimel, and Thomas Culpeper. After him are Baba Nobuharu, and Virgil Solis. Among people deceased in 1587, Hai Rui ranks 10. Before him are Gotthard Kettler, Bianca Cappello, Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Felix of Cantalice, Ōtomo Sōrin, and Ōmura Sumitada. After him are John Foxe, Francisco Hernández de Toledo, Caspar Olevian, Juraj Drašković, and Frederick II, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp.

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In China

Among people born in China, Hai Rui ranks 683 out of 1,610. Before him are Wu Zhen (1280), Yi-Fu Tuan (1930), Tan Sitong (1865), Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei (510), Rabban Bar Sauma (1220), and Zeng Qinghong (1939). After him are Lau Kar-leung (1934), Zhang Guotao (1897), Xin Qiji (1140), Xu Wei (1521), Lu Ji (261), and Sogyal Rinpoche (1947).

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Hai Rui ranks 373. Before him are Salchak Toka (1901), Liu Zhiyuan (895), Cai E (1882), Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa (1924), Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei (510), and Zeng Qinghong (1939). After him are Xin Qiji (1140), Qu Qiubai (1899), Lien Chan (1936), Nie Rongzhen (1899), Chen Boda (1904), and Deng Sui (81).

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