1732 - 1804
Jacques Necker (IPA: [ʒak nɛkɛʁ]; 30 September 1732 – 9 April 1804) was a Genevan banker and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent. Necker was a constitutional monarchist, a political economist, and a moralist, who wrote a severe critique of the new principle of equality before the law.Necker held the finance post between July 1777 and 1781, when in the latter year, he earned widespread recognition for his unprecedented decision to publish the Compte rendu – thus making the country's budget public – "a novelty in an absolute monarchy where the state of finances had always been kept a secret." Necker was dismissed within a few months. By 1788, the inexorable compounding of interest on the national debt brought France to a fiscal crisis. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Necker has received more than 768,170 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Necker is the 1,299th most popular politician (down from 973rd in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 26th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Politician.
Jacques Necker was a french banker and statesman. He was most famous for being the finance minister of France during the French Revolution.
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Among politicians, Jacques Necker ranks 1,299 out of 15,577. Before him are Amenemhat III, Reuven Rivlin, Briseis, Maria Anna of Savoy, Itō Hirobumi, and Gregor Strasser. After him are Vladimir II Monomakh, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Neoptolemus, Imad ad-Din Zengi, Norodom Sihamoni, and William McKinley.
1860 BC - 1814 BC
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 1,293
1939 - Present
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 1,294
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 1,295
1803 - 1884
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 1,296
1841 - 1909
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 1,297
1892 - 1934
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 1,298
1732 - 1804
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 1,299
1053 - 1125
HPI: 67.91
Rank: 1,300
1777 - 1830
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 1,301
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 1,302
1087 - 1146
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 1,303
1953 - Present
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 1,304
1843 - 1901
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 1,305
Among people born in 1732, Jacques Necker ranks 6. Before him are Joseph Haydn, George Washington, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Stanisław August Poniatowski, and Pierre Beaumarchais. After him are Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Richard Arkwright, Jérôme Lalande, Abbas III, Adélaïde of France, and Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1804, Jacques Necker ranks 4. Before him are Immanuel Kant, Joseph Priestley, and Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. After him are Alexander Hamilton, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Pierre Méchain, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Princess Carolina of Parma, Jean-Charles Pichegru, and Jazzar Pasha.
1732 - 1809
HPI: 85.57
Rank: 1
1732 - 1799
HPI: 81.88
Rank: 2
1732 - 1806
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 3
1732 - 1798
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 4
1732 - 1799
HPI: 69.13
Rank: 5
1732 - 1804
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 6
1732 - 1795
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 7
1732 - 1792
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 8
1732 - 1807
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 9
1732 - 1740
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 10
1732 - 1800
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 11
1732 - 1797
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 12
1724 - 1804
HPI: 90.76
Rank: 1
1733 - 1804
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 2
1725 - 1804
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 3
1732 - 1804
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 4
1755 - 1804
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 5
1746 - 1804
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 6
1744 - 1804
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 7
1734 - 1804
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 8
1772 - 1804
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 9
1770 - 1804
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 10
1761 - 1804
HPI: 59.70
Rank: 11
1722 - 1804
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 12
Among people born in Switzerland, Jacques Necker ranks 32 out of 876. Before him are Jacob Burckhardt (1818), Conrad Gessner (1516), Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Erich von Däniken (1935), and Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921). After him are Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Adelaide of Italy (931), Karl Barth (1886), Johannes Itten (1888), Eugen Bleuler (1857), and Emil Theodor Kocher (1841).
1818 - 1897
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 26
1516 - 1565
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 27
1861 - 1938
HPI: 68.46
Rank: 28
1926 - 2004
HPI: 68.45
Rank: 29
1935 - Present
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 30
1921 - 1990
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 31
1732 - 1804
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 32
1654 - 1705
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 33
931 - 999
HPI: 67.71
Rank: 34
1886 - 1968
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 35
1888 - 1967
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 36
1857 - 1939
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 37
1841 - 1917
HPI: 66.80
Rank: 38
Among politicians born in Switzerland, Jacques Necker ranks 2. Before him are Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1945). After him are Albert II, Duke of Austria (1298), Humbert I, Count of Savoy (980), Louis, Duke of Savoy (1413), Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (1270), Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867), Judith of Habsburg (1271), Guy Parmelin (1959), Margareta of Romania (1949), Jaime, Duke of Madrid (1870), and Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (1938).
1945 - Present
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 1
1732 - 1804
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 2
1298 - 1358
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 3
980 - 1047
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 4
1413 - 1465
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 5
1270 - 1290
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 6
1867 - 1909
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 7
1271 - 1297
HPI: 59.66
Rank: 8
1959 - Present
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 9
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 10
1870 - 1931
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 11
1938 - 2015
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 12