1745 - 1829
John Jay (December 23 [O.S. December 12], 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, patriot, diplomat, abolitionist, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served as the second governor of New York and the first chief justice of the United States. He directed U.S. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Jay has received more than 3,422,018 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). John Jay is the 7th most popular diplomat (up from 9th in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from United States (up from 219th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Diplomat.
John Jay was the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He is most famous for writing the Federalist Papers with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
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Among diplomats, John Jay ranks 7 out of 52. Before him are Pocahontas, Kofi Annan, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Gaius Marius, Dag Hammarskjöld, and Ban Ki-moon. After him are Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Alexandra Kollontai, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Raoul Wallenberg, Madeleine Albright, and Lucien Bonaparte.
1595 - 1617
HPI: 81.18
Rank: 1
1938 - 2018
HPI: 77.02
Rank: 2
1754 - 1838
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 3
157 BC - 86 BC
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 4
1905 - 1961
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 5
1944 - Present
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 6
1745 - 1829
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 7
1922 - 2016
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 8
1872 - 1952
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 9
1805 - 1894
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 10
1912 - 1947
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 11
1937 - 2022
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 12
1775 - 1840
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 13
Among people born in 1745, John Jay ranks 3. Before him are Alessandro Volta and Mikhail Kutuzov. After him are Philippe Pinel, Maria Luisa of Spain, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Carl Stamitz, Levin August von Bennigsen, Andrianampoinimerina, Fyodor Ushakov, Valentin Haüy, and Johan Christian Fabricius. Among people deceased in 1829, John Jay ranks 5. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Pope Leo XII, Thomas Young, and Niels Henrik Abel. After him are Humphry Davy, Maria Anna Mozart, Friedrich Schlegel, Paul Barras, Alexander Griboyedov, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, and François-Joseph Gossec.
1745 - 1827
HPI: 83.08
Rank: 1
1745 - 1813
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 2
1745 - 1829
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 3
1745 - 1826
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 4
1745 - 1792
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 5
1745 - 1761
HPI: 63.11
Rank: 6
1745 - 1801
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 7
1745 - 1826
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 8
1745 - 1810
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 9
1745 - 1817
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 10
1745 - 1822
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 11
1745 - 1808
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 12
1744 - 1829
HPI: 77.79
Rank: 1
1760 - 1829
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 2
1773 - 1829
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 3
1802 - 1829
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 4
1745 - 1829
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 5
1778 - 1829
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 6
1751 - 1829
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 7
1772 - 1829
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 8
1755 - 1829
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 9
1795 - 1829
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 10
1763 - 1829
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 11
1734 - 1829
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, John Jay ranks 194 out of 18,182. Before him are Talcott Parsons (1902), James Madison (1751), Scatman John (1942), Gary Cooper (1901), John Rawls (1921), and Whitney Houston (1963). After him are George Lucas (1944), Alec Baldwin (1958), Samuel P. Huntington (1927), Gene Cernan (1934), Ben Affleck (1972), and B. F. Skinner (1904).
1902 - 1979
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 188
1751 - 1836
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 189
1942 - 1999
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 190
1901 - 1961
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 191
1921 - 2002
HPI: 71.69
Rank: 192
1963 - 2012
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 193
1745 - 1829
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 194
1944 - Present
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 195
1958 - Present
HPI: 71.61
Rank: 196
1927 - 2008
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 197
1934 - 2017
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 198
1972 - Present
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 199
1904 - 1990
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 200
Among diplomats born in United States, John Jay ranks 2. Before him are Pocahontas (1595). After him are John R. Bolton (1948), George F. Kennan (1904), Antony Blinken (1962), Dean Acheson (1893), Jean Kennedy Smith (1928), Ralph Bunche (1904), Richard Holbrooke (1941), J. Christopher Stevens (1960), Victoria Nuland (1961), and William J. Burns (1956).
1595 - 1617
HPI: 81.18
Rank: 1
1745 - 1829
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 2
1948 - Present
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 3
1904 - 2005
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 4
1962 - Present
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 5
1893 - 1971
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 6
1928 - 2020
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 7
1904 - 1971
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 8
1941 - 2010
HPI: 53.56
Rank: 9
1960 - 2012
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 10
1961 - Present
HPI: 51.69
Rank: 11
1956 - Present
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 12