1895 - 1979
John George Diefenbaker ( DEE-fən-bay-kər; September 18, 1895 – August 16, 1979) was the 13th prime minister of Canada, serving from 1957 to 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative party leader between 1930 and 1979 to lead the party to an election victory, doing so three times, although only once with a majority of the seats in the House of Commons. Diefenbaker was born in the small town of Neustadt in Southwestern Ontario. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Diefenbaker has received more than 1,314,207 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). John Diefenbaker is the 12,160th most popular politician (down from 11,215th in 2019), the 253rd most popular biography from Canada (down from 244th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Canadian Politician.
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Among politicians, John Diefenbaker ranks 12,160 out of 15,577. Before him are Jaan Teemant, Elias I, Count of Maine, Esau de' Buondelmonti, Ottokar II of Styria, Khin Nyunt, and Rosamund Clifford. After him are Recep Peker, Publius Ostorius Scapula, Balaji Baji Rao, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Domenico II Contarini, and Ariarathes X of Cappadocia.
1872 - 1940
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 12,154
1100 - 1110
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 12,155
1355 - 1411
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 12,156
1082 - 1122
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 12,157
1939 - Present
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 12,158
1150 - 1176
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 12,159
1895 - 1979
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 12,160
1889 - 1950
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 12,161
15 - 52
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 12,162
1720 - 1761
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 12,163
1930 - 2022
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 12,164
1585 - 1675
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 12,165
50 BC - 36 BC
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 12,166
Among people born in 1895, John Diefenbaker ranks 172. Before him are Nikolay Shchors, Christian Herter, Melville J. Herskovits, Walter Bedell Smith, Jerzy Kuryłowicz, and Plínio Salgado. After him are August Emil Fieldorf, Liane Haid, Jack Northrop, Georg Muche, Giovanni Brunero, and Gabriel Chevallier. Among people deceased in 1979, John Diefenbaker ranks 151. Before him are Walter Legge, Juana de Ibarbourou, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, John Cromwell, Mahmoud Taleghani, and Marcel Jouhandeau. After him are Amedeo Biavati, Louis Paul Boon, Donny Hathaway, Henri Saint Cyr, Joan Blondell, and Bruno Apitz.
1895 - 1919
HPI: 49.33
Rank: 166
1895 - 1966
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 167
1895 - 1963
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 168
1895 - 1961
HPI: 49.21
Rank: 169
1895 - 1978
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 170
1895 - 1975
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 171
1895 - 1979
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 172
1895 - 1953
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 173
1895 - 2000
HPI: 49.10
Rank: 174
1895 - 1981
HPI: 49.03
Rank: 175
1895 - 1987
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 176
1895 - 1934
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 177
1895 - 1969
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 178
1906 - 1979
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 145
1892 - 1979
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 146
1895 - 1979
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 147
1886 - 1979
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 148
1911 - 1979
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 149
1888 - 1979
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 150
1895 - 1979
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 151
1915 - 1979
HPI: 49.12
Rank: 152
1912 - 1979
HPI: 49.09
Rank: 153
1945 - 1979
HPI: 49.05
Rank: 154
1902 - 1979
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 155
1906 - 1979
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 156
1900 - 1979
HPI: 48.76
Rank: 157
Among people born in Canada, John Diefenbaker ranks 253 out of 1,350. Before him are Harry Saltzman (1915), Natasha Henstridge (1974), Harold Russell (1914), Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923), Elias Koteas (1961), and Lance Kinsey (1954). After him are Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879), Stephen McHattie (1946), Viola Desmond (1914), Stana Katic (1978), Michael Ontkean (1946), and James LaBrie (1963).
1915 - 1994
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 247
1974 - Present
HPI: 49.40
Rank: 248
1914 - 2002
HPI: 49.40
Rank: 249
1923 - 2002
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 250
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 251
1954 - Present
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 252
1895 - 1979
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 253
1879 - 1962
HPI: 49.12
Rank: 254
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.09
Rank: 255
1914 - 1965
HPI: 49.04
Rank: 256
1978 - Present
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 257
1946 - Present
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 258
1963 - Present
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 259
Among politicians born in Canada, John Diefenbaker ranks 20. Before him are Jean Béliveau (1931), David Johnston (1941), René Lévesque (1922), Mary Simon (1947), Kim Campbell (1947), and Louis St. Laurent (1882). After him are Michael Ignatieff (1947), John Abbott (1821), Joe Clark (1939), William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie (1847), Julie Payette (1963), and Brock Chisholm (1896).
1931 - 2014
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 14
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 15
1922 - 1987
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 16
1947 - Present
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 17
1947 - Present
HPI: 49.89
Rank: 18
1882 - 1973
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 19
1895 - 1979
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 20
1947 - Present
HPI: 48.80
Rank: 21
1821 - 1893
HPI: 48.78
Rank: 22
1939 - Present
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 23
1847 - 1924
HPI: 48.04
Rank: 24
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 25
1896 - 1971
HPI: 47.70
Rank: 26