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Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

1870 - 1963

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Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (6 November 1870 – 5 February 1963) was a British Liberal politician who was the party leader from 1931 to 1935. He was the first nominally-practising Jew to serve as a Cabinet minister and to become the leader of a major British political party. Samuel had promoted Zionism within the British Cabinet, beginning with his 1915 memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel has received more than 415,819 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel is the 6,669th most popular politician (up from 6,822nd in 2019), the 1,317th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,433rd in 2019) and the 218th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel ranks 6,669 out of 19,576. Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, Michael II Asen, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Anne of Cyprus, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, and Marien Ngouabi. After him are Mike Pompeo, Rajendra Chola I, Saleh al-Arouri, Magnus II of Norway, Brian Boru, and Bjarni Benediktsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel ranks 52. Before him are Bernard Baruch, Gustav Landauer, Archduchess Louise of Austria, Kitaro Nishida, Michael Rostovtzeff, and Ignacio Zuloaga. After him are Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Vítězslav Novák, Alexandre Benois, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Oscar Straus, and Florent Schmitt. Among people deceased in 1963, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel ranks 47. Before him are Sylvanus Olympio, Gustave Garrigou, Alois Hudal, Remedios Varo, William Beveridge, and Karl von Terzaghi. After him are Ferenc Fricsay, William Carlos Williams, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Fritz Reiner, Alexander Marinesko, and Camille Chautemps.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel ranks 1,317 out of 8,785. Before him are Lucinda Riley (1965), Jack Charlton (1935), Roddy McDowall (1928), Seal (1963), C. Northcote Parkinson (1909), and Elizabeth Hurley (1965). After him are Fletcher Christian (1764), Alice Keppel (1868), Edward Bach (1886), Arthur Machen (1863), Adrian Smith (1957), and Tom Simpson (1937).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel ranks 218. Before him are Ceawlin of Wessex (600), John Hawkwood (1320), Thomas Gresham (1519), Alexander I of Scotland (1078), Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773), and Joan of Kent (1328). After him are Fletcher Christian (1764), Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence (1451), Anne Lister (1791), Blanche of Lancaster (1345), Horace Walpole (1717), and George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784).

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