1866 - 1942
General James Barry Munnik Hertzog (3 April 1866 – 21 November 1942), better known as Barry Hertzog or J. B. M. Hertzog, was a South African politician and soldier. He was a Boer general during the Second Boer War who served as the third prime minister of the Union of South Africa from 1924 to 1939. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. B. M. Hertzog has received more than 427,016 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). J. B. M. Hertzog is the 11,057th most popular politician (down from 10,035th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 56th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular South African Politician.
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Among politicians, J. B. M. Hertzog ranks 11,057 out of 15,577. Before him are Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Johann Georg Hiedler, Victoria Kent, Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen, and Florence Harding. After him are Alla Kushnir, Rafael Núñez, August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Ioannis Rallis, Gaston Eyskens, and Ekaterina Maximova.
1915 - 2006
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 11,051
1720 - 1788
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 11,052
1792 - 1857
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 11,053
1891 - 1987
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 11,054
1710 - 1767
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 11,055
1860 - 1924
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 11,056
1866 - 1942
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 11,057
1941 - 2013
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 11,058
1825 - 1894
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 11,059
1612 - 1675
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 11,060
1878 - 1946
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 11,061
1905 - 1988
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 11,062
1939 - 2009
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 11,063
Among people born in 1866, J. B. M. Hertzog ranks 81. Before him are Tristan Bernard, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Janis Rozentāls, Pyotr Lebedev, Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Lizzie Magie. After him are Paul Lincke, Mario García Menocal, James J. Corbett, Prince Aribert of Anhalt, Andrey Lyapchev, and Ignacy Daszyński. Among people deceased in 1942, J. B. M. Hertzog ranks 122. Before him are Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, Olha Kobylianska, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Roberto Arlt, and Vladislav Vančura. After him are Guglielmo Ferrero, Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Wojciech Kossak, Mohammad Ali Foroughi, Roberto María Ortiz, and Emanuel Feuermann.
1866 - 1947
HPI: 51.09
Rank: 75
1866 - 1910
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 76
1866 - 1916
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 77
1866 - 1912
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 78
1866 - 1952
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 79
1866 - 1948
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 80
1866 - 1942
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 81
1866 - 1946
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 82
1866 - 1941
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 83
1866 - 1933
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 84
1866 - 1933
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 85
1866 - 1933
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 86
1866 - 1936
HPI: 50.48
Rank: 87
1856 - 1942
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 116
1863 - 1942
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 117
1867 - 1942
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 118
1868 - 1942
HPI: 50.88
Rank: 119
1900 - 1942
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 120
1891 - 1942
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 121
1866 - 1942
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 122
1871 - 1942
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 123
1870 - 1942
HPI: 50.73
Rank: 124
1856 - 1942
HPI: 50.73
Rank: 125
1877 - 1942
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 126
1886 - 1942
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 127
1902 - 1942
HPI: 50.57
Rank: 128
Among people born in South Africa, J. B. M. Hertzog ranks 59 out of 374. Before him are Alice Krige (1954), C. R. Swart (1894), Esther Brand (1922), Cyril Cusack (1910), Trevor Jones (1949), and Piet Joubert (1834). After him are Koos de la Rey (1847), David Cooper (1931), Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), Abdullah Ibrahim (1934), Reggie Walker (1889), and Breyten Breytenbach (1939).
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 53
1894 - 1982
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 54
1922 - 2015
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 55
1910 - 1993
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 56
1949 - Present
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 57
1834 - 1900
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 58
1866 - 1942
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 59
1847 - 1914
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 60
1931 - 1986
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 61
1907 - 2004
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 62
1934 - Present
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 63
1889 - 1951
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 64
1939 - Present
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 65
Among politicians born in South Africa, J. B. M. Hertzog ranks 22. Before him are John Vorster (1915), Marais Viljoen (1915), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), Christiaan de Wet (1854), C. R. Swart (1894), and Piet Joubert (1834). After him are Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), J. G. Strijdom (1893), Nico Diederichs (1903), Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), Oliver Tambo (1917), and Walter Sisulu (1912).
1915 - 1983
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 16
1915 - 2007
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 17
1795 - 1840
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 18
1854 - 1922
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 19
1894 - 1982
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 20
1834 - 1900
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 21
1866 - 1942
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 22
1819 - 1901
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 23
1893 - 1958
HPI: 50.18
Rank: 24
1903 - 1978
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 25
1868 - 1913
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 26
1917 - 1993
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 27
1912 - 2003
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 28