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Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

1870 - 1963

Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

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-practicing 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 252,709 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel is the 7,169th most popular politician (down from 6,683rd in 2019), the 1,562nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,398th in 2019) and the 261st most popular British Politician.

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Effective Languages (L*)
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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel ranks 7,169 out of 15,710. Before him are Iullus Antonius, Marina Ginestà, Fradique de Menezes, Pōmare IV, Ashurnasirpal I, and Hildeprand. After him are Henry A. Wallace, Valerian II, Washington Luís, Sabium, Giorgio Perlasca, and Sālote Tupou III.

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Iullus Antonius
43 BC - 2 BC
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 7,163
Marina Ginestà
1919 - 2014
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 7,164
Fradique de Menezes
1942 - Present
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 7,165
Pōmare IV
1813 - 1877
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 7,166
Ashurnasirpal I
1100 BC - 1060 BC
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 7,167
Hildeprand
800 - 744
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 7,168
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
1870 - 1963
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 7,169
Henry A. Wallace
1888 - 1965
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 7,170
Valerian II
250 - 257
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 7,171
Washington Luís
1869 - 1957
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 7,172
Sabium
1900 BC - 1831 BC
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 7,173
Giorgio Perlasca
1910 - 1992
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 7,174
Sālote Tupou III
1900 - 1965
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 7,175

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel ranks 60. Before him are Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Alexandre Benois, Géza Maróczy, Herbert Kilpin, Michael Rostovtzeff, and Vladimir Purishkevich. After him are Princess Henriette of Belgium, Marianne Weber, Leonid Krasin, Kitaro Nishida, Emil Orlík, and David Riazanov. Among people deceased in 1963, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel ranks 56. Before him are Sivananda Saraswati, Georg Lindemann, Ferenc Fricsay, Rikidōzan, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, and Alexander Marinesko. After him are Berthold, Margrave of Baden, Jacques Villon, Gustaf Gründgens, Fritz Reiner, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, and Ernesto Lecuona.

Others Born in 1870

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Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria
1870 - 1955
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 54
Alexandre Benois
1870 - 1960
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 55
Géza Maróczy
1870 - 1951
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 56
Herbert Kilpin
1870 - 1916
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 57
Michael Rostovtzeff
1870 - 1952
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 58
Vladimir Purishkevich
1870 - 1920
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 59
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
1870 - 1963
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 60
Princess Henriette of Belgium
1870 - 1948
HPI: 65.38
Rank: 61
Marianne Weber
1870 - 1954
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 62
Leonid Krasin
1870 - 1926
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 63
Kitaro Nishida
1870 - 1945
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 64
Emil Orlík
1870 - 1932
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 65
David Riazanov
1870 - 1938
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 66