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Jack Lynch

1917 - 1999

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John Mary Lynch (15 August 1917 – 20 October 1999) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach from 1966 to 1973 and 1977 to 1979. He was Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1966 to 1979, Leader of the Opposition from 1973 to 1977, Minister for Finance from 1965 to 1966, Minister for Industry and Commerce from 1959 to 1965, Minister for Education 1957 to 1959, Minister for the Gaeltacht from March 1957 to June 1957, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Lands and Parliamentary Secretary to the Government from 1951 to 1954. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Lynch has received more than 385,888 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Jack Lynch is the 15,798th most popular politician (down from 15,743rd in 2019), the 265th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 328th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Irish Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jack Lynch ranks 15,798 out of 19,576. Before him are Frances Perkins, Nikolai Golitsyn, Khalid Skah, Pavel Grudinin, Said Seyam, and João de Deus Pinheiro. After him are Kunio Hatoyama, Aram Sargsyan, Julio Acosta García, Isamu Sonoda, Harmodio Arias Madrid, and Bruno Le Maire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Jack Lynch ranks 283. Before him are Francis Parker Yockey, Barbro Kollberg, Gonzalo Rojas, Tetsuo Hamuro, Amelia Piccinini, and Wenche Foss. After him are Władysław Rubin, Eugen Walaschek, Gwendolyn Brooks, Melville Shavelson, Jo Stafford, and Steve Cochran. Among people deceased in 1999, Jack Lynch ranks 244. Before him are Yuriy Istomin, Nathan Jacobson, Mohammad Mohammadullah, Boris Kuznetsov, Gorilla Monsoon, and Masaji Kiyokawa. After him are Guillermo Arellano, Necil Kazım Akses, Anthony Newley, Paul-Émile de Souza, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, and Ester Boserup.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Jack Lynch ranks 265 out of 549. Before him are Derek Daly (1953), Liam Brady (1956), Victor Herbert (1859), Michael Scott (1959), Paddy Moloney (1938), and Eoin Colfer (1965). After him are Matt McGrath (1875), Robert O'Hara Burke (1821), Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865), Sydney, Lady Morgan (1776), Harry Clarke (1889), and Evanna Lynch (1991).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Jack Lynch ranks 43. Before him are W. T. Cosgrave (1880), Leo Varadkar (1979), Garret FitzGerald (1926), Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822), Charles Haughey (1925), and Cathal Brugha (1874). After him are John A. Costello (1891), Peter Sutherland (1946), Richard Mulcahy (1886), Albert Reynolds (1932), Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (1715), and Joseph Plunkett (1887).

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