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Hipparchus

600 BC - 514 BC

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Hipparchus (Ancient Greek: Ἵππαρχος, romanized: Hípparkhos; died 514 BC) was a member of the ruling class of Athens and one of the sons of Pisistratus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hipparchus has received more than 1,231,862 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Hipparchus is the 3,483rd most popular politician (up from 3,873rd in 2019), the 226th most popular biography from Greece (up from 253rd in 2019) and the 90th most popular Greek Politician.

Hipparchus is most famous for his discovery of precession, the wobble of the Earth's axis. He also discovered that the Earth was spherical and not flat.

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  • 27

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  • 8.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hipparchus ranks 3,483 out of 15,577. Before him are Violet Jessop, Andrzej Duda, Cleopatra Thea, Ana Pauker, Ermengarde of Hesbaye, and André Maginot. After him are Filippo Maria Visconti, Hisham II, Yakov Yurovsky, Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, Emperor Ku, and Henry I, Duke of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600 BC, Hipparchus ranks 34. Before him are Datis, Lars Porsena, Demaratus, Neriglissar, Horatius Cocles, and Artaphernes. After him are Hiero I of Syracuse, Aristagoras, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, Nahum, Gelon, and Agrippa Menenius Lanatus. Among people deceased in 514 BC, Hipparchus ranks 1. 

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Hipparchus ranks 226 out of 936. Before him are Cleobulus (-590), Antiphon (-480), Aristarchus of Samothrace (-217), Herodes Atticus (101), Georgios Papanikolaou (1883), and Memnon of Rhodes (-380). After him are Alexandra of Yugoslavia (1921), Phocion (-402), Berenice I of Egypt (-340), Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark (1905), Antiochus XI Epiphanes (-115), and Jean Moréas (1856).

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Among POLITICIANS In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Hipparchus ranks 90. Before him are Demaratus (-600), Konstantinos Stephanopoulos (1926), Alexander I of Epirus (-362), Thessalonike of Macedon (-352), Antiphon (-480), and Herodes Atticus (101). After him are Phocion (-402), Berenice I of Egypt (-340), Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark (1905), Antiochus XI Epiphanes (-115), Antiochus IX Cyzicenus (-135), and Cleisthenes of Sicyon (-701).

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