POLITICIAN

Jia Xu

147 - 223

Jia Xu

Jia Xu (147 – 11 August 223), courtesy name Wenhe, was an official of the state of Cao Wei during the early Three Kingdoms period of China. He started his career in the late Eastern Han dynasty as a minor official. In 189, when the warlord Dong Zhuo took control of the Han central government, he assigned Jia Xu to the unit led by Niu Fu, his son-in-law. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jia Xu has received more than 185,916 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jia Xu is the 3,838th most popular politician (up from 4,339th in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from China (up from 329th in 2019) and the 183rd most popular Chinese Politician.

Jia Xu was a strategist and advisor to Cao Cao, a powerful warlord in the late Eastern Han dynasty. He is most famous for his advice to Cao Cao to abandon his long-time ally Liu Bei and to instead ally with the other warlord Sun Quan in order to defeat Liu Bei.

Memorability Metrics

190k
Page Views (PV)
61.35
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
17
Languages Editions (L)
4.93
Effective Languages (L*)
1.75
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jia Xu ranks 3,838 out of 19,576. Before him are Tuman bay II, Barquq, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Emperor Yuan of Jin, Francis IV, Duke of Modena, and King Cheng of Zhou. After him are Edigu, Emil Constantinescu, Ramiro II of Aragon, Procopius, Juan Negrín, and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York.

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HPI: 61.37
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1339 - 1399
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1884 - 1955
HPI: 61.36
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1779 - 1846
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King Cheng of Zhou
1100 BC - 1021 BC
HPI: 61.36
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Jia Xu
147 - 223
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 3,838
Edigu
1352 - 1419
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 3,839
Emil Constantinescu
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 3,840
Ramiro II of Aragon
1086 - 1157
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 3,841
Procopius
325 - 366
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 3,842
Juan Negrín
1892 - 1956
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 3,843
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York
1473 - 1483
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 3,844

Contemporaries

Among people born in 147, Jia Xu ranks 1. After him is Lokaksema. Among people deceased in 223, Jia Xu ranks 5. Before him are Liu Bei, Pope Callixtus I, Athenaeus, and Cao Ren. After him are Zhou Tai, and Cao Zhang.