Politician

John A. Macdonald

1st Prime Minister of Canada

1815 - 1891

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His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2024). John A. Macdonald is the 892nd most popular politician (up from 9,497th in 2024), the 251st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,925th in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Politician.

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John A. Macdonald climbed 27,264 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #30,160 to #2,896.

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John A. Macdonald ranks #251 among 9,870 people in Pantheon born in United Kingdom, inside the top 3% of that group.

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John A. Macdonald's biography appears in 56 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 92% of all Politicians.

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Among Politicians

Among politicians, John A. Macdonald ranks 892 out of 20,022. Before him are Charles IV of Spain, Yulia Tymoshenko, Karl Liebknecht, Gallienus, Horace Walpole, and Vidkun Quisling. After him are Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Robert II of France, Imad ad-Din Zengi, Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor, Ptolemy IV Philopator, and Lee Myung-bak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, John A. Macdonald ranks 5. Before him are Otto von Bismarck, Ada Lovelace, John Bosco, and Otto of Greece. After him are George Boole, Karl Weierstrass, Adolph Menzel, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Thomas Couture, Louis-Jules Trochu, and Ildefons Cerdà. Among people deceased in 1891, John A. Macdonald ranks 6. Before him are Arthur Rimbaud, Nikolaus Otto, Helena Blavatsky, Georges Seurat, and Pedro II of Brazil. After him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, P. T. Barnum, Herman Melville, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, and Sofia Kovalevskaya.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John A. Macdonald ranks 251 out of 9,870. Before him are Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), C. F. Powell (1903), Charlotte Rampling (1946), Henry III of England (1207), Arthur Harden (1865), and Horace Walpole (1717). After him are Archer Martin (1910), Roger Moore (1927), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), James Hunt (1947), John Snow (1813), and Cary Grant (1904).

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Among Politicians In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, John A. Macdonald ranks 60. Before him are Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935), Æthelstan (895), Clementine Churchill (1885), Boudica (33), Henry III of England (1207), and Horace Walpole (1717). After him are Randal Cremer (1828), Æthelberht, King of Wessex (836), Robert the Bruce (1274), Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (1477), Owain Glyndŵr (1359), and Gladwyn Jebb (1900).

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