1925 - 2023
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (French pronunciation: [ʒak lysjɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ dəlɔʁ]; 20 July 1925 – 27 December 2023) was a French politician who served as the eighth president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995. Delors played a key role in the creation of the single market, the euro and the modern European Union. As president of the European Commission (EC), Delors was the most visible and influential leader in European affairs. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Delors has received more than 647,879 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Jacques Delors is the 67th most popular economist (down from 57th in 2019), the 902nd most popular biography from France (down from 815th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Economist.
Jacques Delors is most famous for being the president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995. He is credited with leading the effort to create the euro, and is often called the "Father of the Euro."
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Among economists, Jacques Delors ranks 67 out of 315. Before him are Theodore Schultz, William Stanley Jevons, Oliver E. Williamson, Henry Mintzberg, Robert Lucas Jr., and Eugen Böhm von Bawerk. After him are James Mill, Wang Anshi, James Tobin, Reinhard Selten, Tansu Çiller, and Trygve Haavelmo.
1902 - 1998
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 61
1835 - 1882
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 62
1932 - 2020
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 63
1939 - Present
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 64
1937 - 2023
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 65
1851 - 1914
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 66
1925 - 2023
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 67
1773 - 1836
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 68
1021 - 1086
HPI: 62.85
Rank: 69
1918 - 2002
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 70
1930 - 2016
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 71
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 72
1911 - 1999
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 73
Among people born in 1925, Jacques Delors ranks 50. Before him are Sam Peckinpah, Oona O'Neill, Luciano Berio, Gerald Durrell, Robert Venturi, and Sibghatullah Mojaddedi. After him are George Kennedy, Roy J. Glauber, Barbara Bush, Simon van der Meer, Bülent Ecevit, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Among people deceased in 2023, Jacques Delors ranks 33. Before him are Harry Belafonte, Robert Solow, Alan Arkin, Robert Lucas Jr., Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and Ferid Murad. After him are K. Alex Müller, Tony Bennett, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Miroslav Blažević, Wolfgang Schäuble, and Paul Berg.
1925 - 1984
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 44
1925 - 1991
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 45
1925 - 2003
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 46
1925 - 1995
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 47
1925 - 2018
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 48
1925 - 2019
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 49
1925 - 2023
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 50
1925 - 2016
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 51
1925 - 2018
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 52
1925 - 2018
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 53
1925 - 2011
HPI: 62.27
Rank: 54
1925 - 2006
HPI: 62.20
Rank: 55
1925 - 2012
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 56
1927 - 2023
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 27
1924 - 2023
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 28
1934 - 2023
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 29
1937 - 2023
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 30
1937 - 2023
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 31
1936 - 2023
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 32
1925 - 2023
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 33
1927 - 2023
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 34
1926 - 2023
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 35
1929 - 2023
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 36
1935 - 2023
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 37
1942 - 2023
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 38
1926 - 2023
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 39
Among people born in France, Jacques Delors ranks 902 out of 6,011. Before him are Bruno Latour (1947), Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy (1143), Auguste Mariette (1821), Arnaut Daniel (1150), Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), and Marie de France (1101). After him are George Steiner (1929), Fredegund (545), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011), and Claude Chappe (1763).
1947 - 2022
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 896
1143 - 1184
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 897
1821 - 1881
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 898
1150 - 1210
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 899
1700 - 1771
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 900
1101 - 1300
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 901
1925 - 2023
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 902
1929 - 2020
HPI: 62.92
Rank: 903
545 - 597
HPI: 62.92
Rank: 904
1939 - Present
HPI: 62.92
Rank: 905
1748 - 1836
HPI: 62.91
Rank: 906
1011 - 1076
HPI: 62.91
Rank: 907
1763 - 1805
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 908
Among economists born in France, Jacques Delors ranks 10. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Léon Walras (1834), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Frédéric Bastiat (1801), and Maurice Allais (1911). After him are Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), Gérard Debreu (1921), Jean Tirole (1953), Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (1806), Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), and Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715).
1767 - 1832
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 4
1727 - 1781
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 5
1834 - 1910
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 6
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 7
1801 - 1850
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 8
1911 - 2010
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 9
1925 - 2023
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 10
1942 - Present
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 11
1921 - 2004
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 12
1953 - Present
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 13
1806 - 1882
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 14
1712 - 1759
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 15
1715 - 1789
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 16