POLITICIAN

Harold Holt

1908 - 1967

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Harold Edward Holt (5 August 1908 – 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 17th prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance and presumed death in 1967. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. Holt was born in Sydney and moved to Melbourne in childhood, studying law at the University of Melbourne. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold Holt has received more than 2,895,821 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Harold Holt is the 8,036th most popular politician (down from 7,235th in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Australia (down from 58th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Australian Politician.

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  • 55.80

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  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Harold Holt ranks 8,036 out of 19,576. Before him are Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah, Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, Ishpuini of Urartu, and George II of Bulgaria. After him are Lew Wallace, Tung Chee-hwa, Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga, Kaykhusraw III, Sen Katayama, and Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Harold Holt ranks 110. Before him are Edgar Faure, Van Heflin, Lew Ayres, Sergei Sobolev, Arturo Frondizi, and Vazgen I. After him are Sarit Thanarat, Jean Delannoy, Nicholas Kaldor, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Alejandro Scopelli, and Yevgeny Vuchetich. Among people deceased in 1967, Harold Holt ranks 93. Before him are Henry Morgenthau Jr., Walter Weiß, Luis Somoza Debayle, Jane Darwell, Ivan Isakov, and George Kelly. After him are Osvaldo Moles, Juliusz Rómmel, Oskar Fischinger, Miklós Kállay, Pierre Jeanneret, and Eddie Eagan.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Harold Holt ranks 66 out of 1,143. Before him are Cassandra Harris (1948), Michael Hutchence (1960), Ken Rosewall (1934), Annette Kellermann (1887), Nellie Melba (1861), and David Hurley (1953). After him are Colin Burgess (1946), Raymond Dart (1893), John Howard (1939), Peter Sculthorpe (1929), Bryan Brown (1947), and Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark (1972).

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Among POLITICIANS In Australia

Among politicians born in Australia, Harold Holt ranks 3. Before him are Gough Whitlam (1916), and David Hurley (1953). After him are 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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