1980 - Today
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wylie: jigs med ge sar rnam rgyal dbang phyug; born 21 February 1980) is the Druk Gyalpo (Dzongkha: Dragon King), the monarch of the Kingdom of Bhutan. After his father Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne, he became the monarch on 9 December 2006. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck has received more than 3,510,360 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck is the 8,962nd most popular politician (up from 9,117th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Nepal (down from 15th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Nepalese Politician.
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Among politicians, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck ranks 8,962 out of 15,577. Before him are Guru Hargobind, Koca Davud Pasha, Amykos, Holger Nielsen, Artúr Görgei, and Michel Le Tellier. After him are Giovanni Visconti, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, István Bethlen, Alexander Bortnikov, and Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld.
1595 - 1644
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 8,956
1401 - 1498
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 8,957
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 8,958
1866 - 1955
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 8,959
1818 - 1916
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 8,960
1603 - 1685
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 8,961
1980 - Present
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 8,962
1290 - 1354
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 8,963
1831 - 1917
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 8,964
1849 - 1918
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 8,965
1874 - 1946
HPI: 53.42
Rank: 8,966
1951 - Present
HPI: 53.42
Rank: 8,967
1753 - 1824
HPI: 53.42
Rank: 8,968
Among people born in 1980, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck ranks 16. Before him are Steven Gerrard, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Chris Pine, Channing Tatum, Martina Hingis, and Christina Ricci. After him are Jenson Button, Zaz, The Miz, Charlie Hunnam, Sibel Kekilli, and Gisele Bündchen.
1980 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 10
1980 - Present
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 11
1980 - Present
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 12
1980 - Present
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 13
1980 - Present
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 14
1980 - Present
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 15
1980 - Present
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 16
1980 - Present
HPI: 53.42
Rank: 17
1980 - Present
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 18
1980 - Present
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 19
1980 - Present
HPI: 52.74
Rank: 20
1980 - Present
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 21
1980 - Present
HPI: 52.45
Rank: 22
Among people born in Nepal, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck ranks 17 out of 55. Before him are Gyanendra of Nepal (1947), Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723), Birendra of Nepal (1945), Bidhya Devi Bhandari (1961), Ram Baran Yadav (1948), and Anuruddha (-450). After him are Bhanubhakta Acharya (1814), Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909), Sher Bahadur Deuba (1946), Mahendra of Nepal (1920), Suman Pokhrel (1967), and Tribhuvan of Nepal (1906).
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 11
1723 - 1775
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 12
1945 - 2001
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 13
1961 - Present
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 14
1948 - Present
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 15
450 BC - Present
HPI: 53.74
Rank: 16
1980 - Present
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 17
1814 - 1868
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 18
1909 - 1959
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 19
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 20
1920 - 1972
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 21
1967 - Present
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 22
1906 - 1955
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 23
Among politicians born in Nepal, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck ranks 8. Before him are Śuddhodana (-590), Gyanendra of Nepal (1947), Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723), Birendra of Nepal (1945), Bidhya Devi Bhandari (1961), and Ram Baran Yadav (1948). After him are Sher Bahadur Deuba (1946), Mahendra of Nepal (1920), Tribhuvan of Nepal (1906), Jung Bahadur Rana (1817), Pushpa Kamal Dahal (1954), and Bhimsen Thapa (1775).
590 BC - Present
HPI: 66.69
Rank: 2
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 3
1723 - 1775
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 4
1945 - 2001
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 5
1961 - Present
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 6
1948 - Present
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 7
1980 - Present
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 8
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 9
1920 - 1972
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 10
1906 - 1955
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 11
1817 - 1877
HPI: 48.37
Rank: 12
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.84
Rank: 13
1775 - 1839
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 14