1888 - 1959
John Foster Dulles ( DUL-iss; February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. A member of the Republican Party, Dulles served as United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959 (due to his colon cancer diagnosis) and was briefly a Senator from New York in 1949. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Foster Dulles has received more than 2,011,184 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). John Foster Dulles is the 3,854th most popular politician (down from 3,128th in 2019), the 1,274th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,029th in 2019) and the 94th most popular American Politician.
John Foster Dulles is most famous for being the Secretary of State for the Eisenhower administration. He was the architect of the Cold War policy of containment.
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Among politicians, John Foster Dulles ranks 3,854 out of 15,577. Before him are Kunigunde of Austria, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Vojislav Šešelj, Carolina Herrera, and Vukašin of Serbia. After him are Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise, Askar Akayev, Albert VI, Archduke of Austria, Princess Alexandrine of Baden, Teispes, and Empress Jingū.
1465 - 1520
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 3,848
1874 - 1940
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 3,849
1696 - 1762
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 3,850
1954 - Present
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 3,851
1939 - Present
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 3,852
1320 - 1371
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 3,853
1888 - 1959
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 3,854
1768 - 1835
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 3,855
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 3,856
1418 - 1463
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 3,857
1820 - 1904
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 3,858
675 BC - 640 BC
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 3,859
169 - 269
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 3,860
Among people born in 1888, John Foster Dulles ranks 49. Before him are Katherine Mansfield, Ernst Heinkel, Irving Berlin, Fritz Klein, Max Steiner, and W. O. Bentley. After him are Vladimir K. Zworykin, Abul Kalam Azad, August Kubizek, Inayatullah Khan, Thea von Harbou, and Heinrich Neuhaus. Among people deceased in 1959, John Foster Dulles ranks 27. Before him are Ritchie Valens, Edward C. Tolman, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Ettore Majorana, Raphael Lemkin, and Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal. After him are Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Cecil B. DeMille, Enrico De Nicola, Alfred Kubin, Mario Lanza, and Wanda Landowska.
1888 - 1923
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 43
1888 - 1958
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 44
1888 - 1989
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 45
1888 - 1945
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 46
1888 - 1971
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 47
1888 - 1971
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 48
1888 - 1959
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 49
1888 - 1982
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 50
1888 - 1958
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 51
1888 - 1956
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 52
1888 - 1946
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 53
1888 - 1954
HPI: 59.84
Rank: 54
1888 - 1964
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 55
1941 - 1959
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 21
1886 - 1959
HPI: 62.74
Rank: 22
1877 - 1959
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 23
1906 - 1959
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 24
1900 - 1959
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 25
1862 - 1959
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 26
1888 - 1959
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 27
1881 - 1959
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 28
1881 - 1959
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 29
1877 - 1959
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 30
1877 - 1959
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 31
1921 - 1959
HPI: 59.72
Rank: 32
1879 - 1959
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 33
Among people born in United States, John Foster Dulles ranks 1,274 out of 18,182. Before him are Joseph Erlanger (1874), Irwin Shaw (1913), Anthony Mann (1906), Cormac McCarthy (1933), Joseph Kosuth (1945), and John Brown (1800). After him are J. J. Cale (1938), Sam Cooke (1931), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Chevy Chase (1943), Walter Bradford Cannon (1871), and John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874).
1874 - 1965
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 1,268
1913 - 1984
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 1,269
1906 - 1967
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 1,270
1933 - 2023
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 1,271
1945 - Present
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 1,272
1800 - 1859
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 1,273
1888 - 1959
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 1,274
1938 - 2013
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 1,275
1931 - 1964
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 1,276
1914 - 2006
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 1,277
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 1,278
1871 - 1945
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 1,279
1874 - 1960
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 1,280
Among politicians born in United States, John Foster Dulles ranks 94. Before him are Jill Biden (1951), Dred Scott (1795), Avery Brundage (1887), Condoleezza Rice (1954), Andrew Dickson White (1832), and Aaron Burr (1756). After him are Mike Pence (1959), Red Cloud (1822), Charles G. Dawes (1865), Allen Dulles (1893), John Dickinson (1732), and George Papandreou (1952).
1951 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 88
1795 - 1858
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 89
1887 - 1975
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 90
1954 - Present
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 91
1832 - 1918
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 92
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