1732 - 1808
John Dickinson (November 13, [O.S. November 2] 1732 – February 14, 1808), a Founding Father of the United States, was an attorney and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware. Dickinson was known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his twelve Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, published individually in 1767 and 1768, and he also wrote "The Liberty Song" in 1768. As a member of the First Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association, Dickinson drafted most of the 1774 Petition to the King, and then, as a member of the Second Continental Congress, he wrote the 1775 Olive Branch Petition. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Dickinson has received more than 1,006,688 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). John Dickinson is the 4,360th most popular politician (up from 5,114th in 2019), the 1,460th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,772nd in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Politician.
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Among politicians, John Dickinson ranks 4,360 out of 15,577. Before him are Drusus Caesar, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen, Isabella, Queen of Armenia, John George II, Elector of Saxony, and Anastasia of Kiev. After him are Yelü Chucai, Paolo Gentiloni, Ibn Tumart, Shintaro Ishihara, Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, and Igor Ivanov.
7 - 33
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 4,354
1925 - 2010
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 4,355
1671 - 1747
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 4,356
1216 - 1252
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 4,357
1613 - 1680
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 4,358
1023 - 1074
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 4,359
1732 - 1808
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 4,360
1189 - 1243
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 4,361
1954 - Present
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 4,362
1097 - 1130
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 4,363
1932 - 2022
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 4,364
1604 - 1675
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 4,365
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 4,366
Among people born in 1732, John Dickinson ranks 14. Before him are Richard Arkwright, Jérôme Lalande, Abbas III, Adélaïde of France, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, and Johann Christoph Adelung. After him are Warren Hastings, Carl Gotthard Langhans, Peter Forsskål, Joseph Gaertner, Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, and Hieronymus von Colloredo. Among people deceased in 1808, John Dickinson ranks 6. Before him are Selim III, Christian VII of Denmark, Mustafa IV, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, and Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov. After him are Hubert Robert, Johan Christian Fabricius, Carl Gotthard Langhans, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, and Paul Wranitzky.
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
1732 - 1806
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 13
1732 - 1808
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 14
1732 - 1818
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 15
1732 - 1808
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 16
1732 - 1763
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 17
1732 - 1791
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 18
1732 - 1776
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 19
1732 - 1812
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 20
1761 - 1808
HPI: 74.72
Rank: 1
1749 - 1808
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 2
1779 - 1808
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 3
1743 - 1808
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 4
1737 - 1808
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 5
1732 - 1808
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 6
1733 - 1808
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 7
1745 - 1808
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 8
1732 - 1808
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 9
1757 - 1808
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 10
1736 - 1808
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 11
1756 - 1808
HPI: 53.89
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, John Dickinson ranks 1,460 out of 18,182. Before him are George Smoot (1945), Mamie Eisenhower (1896), Robert J. Flaherty (1884), Spike Lee (1957), Dale T. Mortensen (1939), and Eugene Fama (1939). After him are Gus Van Sant (1952), Gene Sharp (1928), Carl Reiner (1922), William Miller (1782), Edie Sedgwick (1943), and David Caruso (1956).
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 1,454
1896 - 1979
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 1,455
1884 - 1951
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 1,456
1957 - Present
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 1,457
1939 - 2014
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 1,458
1939 - Present
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 1,459
1732 - 1808
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 1,460
1952 - Present
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 1,461
1928 - 2018
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 1,462
1922 - 2020
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 1,463
1782 - 1849
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 1,464
1943 - 1971
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 1,465
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 1,466
Among politicians born in United States, John Dickinson ranks 99. Before him are Aaron Burr (1756), John Foster Dulles (1888), Mike Pence (1959), Red Cloud (1822), Charles G. Dawes (1865), and Allen Dulles (1893). After him are George Papandreou (1952), Conrad Hilton (1887), Janet Yellen (1946), Chief Seattle (1786), William Walker (1824), and Samuel Adams (1722).
1756 - 1836
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 93
1888 - 1959
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 94
1959 - Present
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 95
1822 - 1909
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 96
1865 - 1951
HPI: 59.76
Rank: 97
1893 - 1969
HPI: 59.68
Rank: 98
1732 - 1808
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 99
1952 - Present
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 100
1887 - 1979
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 101
1946 - Present
HPI: 59.26
Rank: 102
1786 - 1866
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 103
1824 - 1860
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 104
1722 - 1803
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 105