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Jack Straw

1946 - Today

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John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a British politician who served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001, and Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 under Blair. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackburn from 1979 to 2015. Straw was born in Essex and privately educated both at Oaklands School, where his mother worked as a teacher, and later at Brentwood School. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Straw has received more than 1,324,147 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Jack Straw is the 14,531st most popular politician (down from 14,413th in 2019), the 3,586th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,040th in 2019) and the 478th most popular British Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jack Straw ranks 14,531 out of 19,576. Before him are Serge Telle, Dmitry Tolstoy, Tlepolemus, Masha Bruskina, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, and Albert Gallatin. After him are Andriy Yermak, Scott Morrison, Viktor Khristenko, Érik Orsenna, Joseph von Radowitz, and Robin Cook.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Jack Straw ranks 500. Before him are Georges Bereta, Joe Spano, Beth Carvalho, Ba Mamadou Mbaré, Hiroshi Fushida, and Roy Wood. After him are Rhoma Irama, Robin Cook, Mary Beth Hurt, Erich Beer, Cornel Penu, and Jean Thissen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jack Straw ranks 3,586 out of 8,785. Before him are John Anderson (1833), Callum Keith Rennie (1960), William Stukeley (1687), John Moore (1761), Roy Wood (1946), and Richard Bentley (1662). After him are Colin Groves (1942), Robin Cook (1946), Sam Houser (1972), Ian Livingstone (1949), Shirley Manson (1966), and Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Jack Straw ranks 478. Before him are Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858), Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), Hywel Dda (880), William Huskisson (1770), Roy Jenkins (1920), and Stafford Cripps (1889). After him are Robin Cook (1946), John Taylor (1808), John Smith (1938), William Davies Evans (1790), Tony Benn (1925), and Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain (1741).

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