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Ian Paisley

1926 - 2014

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Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014) was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008. Paisley became a Protestant evangelical minister in 1946 and remained one for the rest of his life. In 1951 he co-founded the Reformed fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and was its leader until 2008. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ian Paisley has received more than 2,335,500 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Ian Paisley is the 12,871st most popular politician (down from 11,991st in 2019), the 2,852nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,748th in 2019) and the 409th most popular British Politician.

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  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ian Paisley ranks 12,871 out of 19,576. Before him are Tibor Szamuely, Sankhenre Sewadjtu, Demetrios Petrokokkinos, Jules Malou, Cem Özdemir, and Ling Liong Sik. After him are Carlo I Tocco, José Miró Cardona, Carl Christian Hall, Juraj Dobrila, Eduard Kokoity, and Vitale Candiano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Ian Paisley ranks 262. Before him are Robert Ballaman, Alina Szapocznikow, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Pascual Pérez, Lino Aldani, and Shinichi Hoshi. After him are Carl Adam Petri, Maneca, William Porter, Ri Kun-mo, Ljubiša Spajić, and Ludvík Vaculík. Among people deceased in 2014, Ian Paisley ranks 222. Before him are Jadwiga Piłsudska, Marco Cé, Halet Çambel, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Małgorzata Braunek, and Daniel Boulanger. After him are Igor Rodionov, Licia Albanese, Marian Seldes, Jimi Jamison, Knut Nystedt, and Carlos Borges.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ian Paisley ranks 2,852 out of 8,785. Before him are Angus Ogilvy (1928), James Allen (1864), Patsy Kensit (1968), Joan Aiken (1924), Demetrios Petrokokkinos (1878), and John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647). After him are R. M. Hare (1919), Charli XCX (1992), Cenwalh of Wessex (601), Nicky Hopkins (1944), Edwin of Northumbria (586), and Jackie Burroughs (1939).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Ian Paisley ranks 409. Before him are George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758), Edward Fortunatus (1565), Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth (1876), Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (877), Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough (1681), and Demetrios Petrokokkinos (1878). After him are Cenwalh of Wessex (601), Edwin of Northumbria (586), Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400), Cosmo Duff-Gordon (1862), Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney (1075), and Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593).

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