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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 2,186,593 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Ian Paisley is the 12,032nd most popular politician (down from 10,350th in 2019), the 2,755th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,381st in 2019) and the 417th most popular British Politician.

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  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.27

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ian Paisley ranks 12,032 out of 15,577. Before him are Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg, Sisavath Keobounphanh, Hendrikus Colijn, Mizengo Pinda, Gerrard Winstanley, and Amythaon. After him are Fernando Tambroni, Clodovil Hernandes, Karl Staaff, Anton Yugov, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, and Nigmatilla Yuldashev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Ian Paisley ranks 240. Before him are Tadeusz Konwicki, Theo Adam, Lev Dyomin, Edgar Hilsenrath, Alfred Körner, and James Krüss. After him are Veikko Karvonen, Salvador Jorge Blanco, George C. Williams, Stanley Cavell, Shinichi Hoshi, and Alfred Pfaff. Among people deceased in 2014, Ian Paisley ranks 207. Before him are Andrew V. McLaglen, Kumba Ialá, Dezső Novák, Vaçe Zela, Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, and Said Akl. After him are Ichirō Nagai, Joel Camargo, Ruby Dee, Julio Abbadie, Mango, and Wubbo Ockels.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ian Paisley ranks 2,755 out of 7,765. Before him are Edgar Wright (1974), Arthur Waley (1889), William Edward Ayrton (1847), Jean Shrimpton (1942), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), and Gerrard Winstanley (1609). After him are Nicol Williamson (1936), Carole Pateman (1940), Lennie James (1965), John Bodkin Adams (1899), Tony Martin (1957), and Paul Kennedy (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Ian Paisley ranks 417. Before him are Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge (1868), James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838), Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443), Gary Hocking (1937), Konstantinos Paspatis (1878), and Gerrard Winstanley (1609). After him are Cosmo Duff-Gordon (1862), Lambert Simnel (1477), Nevile Henderson (1882), Enoch Powell (1912), Tony Abbott (1957), and Geoffrey Howe (1926).

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