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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Straw has received more than 1,166,568 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Jack Straw is the 14,462nd most popular politician (down from 12,746th in 2019), the 4,048th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,538th in 2019) and the 502nd most popular British Politician.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jack Straw ranks 14,462 out of 15,577. Before him are Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, Raimundo Pereira, Billy Hughes, Alboin of Spoleto, Elizabeth Dole, and Philipp Rösler. After him are Dimitar Petkov, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Juan Manuel Frutos, Donald Ramotar, David Ige, and Jüri Ratas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Jack Straw ranks 511. Before him are Hiroshi Fushida, Lars-Emil Johansen, Gailard Sartain, Daniel Carnevali, Susan Lucci, and Dimitrij Rupel. After him are Brian Henton, Gilda Radner, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Andy Mackay, Leif Mortensen, and Noddy Holder.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jack Straw ranks 4,048 out of 7,765. Before him are Terry Cooper (1944), Peter Arundell (1933), Thomas Nuttall (1786), Billy McNeill (1940), Billy Hughes (1862), and Hereward the Wake (1035). After him are Ian McElhinney (1948), Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892), James D'Arcy (1975), Izaak Walton (1593), Celia Johnson (1908), and Nicholas Hooper (1952).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Jack Straw ranks 502. Before him are John Hunter (1737), Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1393), Alex Salmond (1954), Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (1880), Martin McGuinness (1950), and Billy Hughes (1862). After him are Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905), Andrew Fisher (1862), Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1674), William Warham (1450), Susie Wolff (1982), and Robert Morris (1734).

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