1784 - 1865
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. Palmerston dominated British foreign policy during the period 1830 to 1865, when Britain stood at the height of its imperial power. He held office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston has received more than 2,610,636 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston is the 20th most popular diplomat, the 531st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 624th in 2019) and the most popular British Diplomat.
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, is most famous for his role as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834 and again from 1835 to 1841.
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Among diplomats, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 20 out of 52. Before him are Folke Bernadotte, Mohamed ElBaradei, John R. Bolton, Alva Myrdal, Hasekura Tsunenaga, and Chiune Sugihara. After him are Chaim Herzog, George F. Kennan, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Megasthenes, Thomas Klestil, and George Blake.
1895 - 1948
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 14
1942 - Present
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 15
1948 - Present
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 16
1902 - 1986
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 17
1571 - 1622
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 18
1900 - 1986
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 19
1784 - 1865
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 20
1918 - 1997
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 21
1904 - 2005
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 22
1938 - 2010
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 23
350 BC - 290 BC
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 24
1932 - 2004
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 25
1922 - 2020
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 26
Among people born in 1784, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 8. Before him are Jérôme Bonaparte, Zachary Taylor, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Friedrich Bessel, Karl Thomas Mozart, and Marie-Antoine Carême. After him are Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Louis Spohr, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Leo von Klenze, François Rude, and Rafael del Riego. Among people deceased in 1865, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 9. Before him are Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Leopold I of Belgium, Ignaz Semmelweis, Emil Lenz, William Rowan Hamilton, and Anna Pavlovna of Russia. After him are Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Heinrich Barth, Robert FitzRoy, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Shoqan Walikhanov.
1784 - 1860
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 2
1784 - 1850
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 3
1784 - 1844
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 4
1784 - 1846
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 5
1784 - 1858
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 6
1784 - 1833
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 7
1784 - 1865
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 8
1784 - 1817
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 9
1784 - 1859
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 10
1784 - 1803
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 11
1784 - 1864
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 12
1784 - 1855
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 13
1784 - 1823
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 14
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 3
1790 - 1865
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 4
1818 - 1865
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 5
1804 - 1865
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 6
1805 - 1865
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 7
1795 - 1865
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 8
1784 - 1865
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 9
1843 - 1865
HPI: 62.87
Rank: 10
1788 - 1865
HPI: 62.05
Rank: 11
1821 - 1865
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 12
1805 - 1865
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 13
1810 - 1865
HPI: 60.21
Rank: 14
1835 - 1865
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 15
Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 531 out of 7,765. Before him are Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848), G. H. Hardy (1877), Diana Rigg (1938), Desmond Llewelyn (1914), Walter Raleigh (1554), and Norman Haworth (1883). After him are Richard Griffiths (1947), Raymond Cattell (1905), J. Bruce Ismay (1862), James III of Scotland (1451), Æthelberht, King of Wessex (836), and Chaim Herzog (1918).
1848 - 1939
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 525
1877 - 1947
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 526
1938 - 2020
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 527
1914 - 1999
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 528
1554 - 1618
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 529
1883 - 1950
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 530
1784 - 1865
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 531
1947 - 2013
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 532
1905 - 1998
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 533
1862 - 1937
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 534
1451 - 1488
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 535
836 - 865
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 536
1918 - 1997
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 537
Among diplomats born in United Kingdom, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ranks 1. After him are Chaim Herzog (1918), Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864), Ernest Mason Satow (1843), and Seán Lester (1888).
1784 - 1865
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 1
1918 - 1997
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 2
1864 - 1958
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 3
1843 - 1929
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 4
1888 - 1959
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 5