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John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon

1873 - 1954

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John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, (28 February 1873 – 11 January 1954) was a British politician who held senior Cabinet posts from the beginning of the First World War to the end of the Second World War. He is one of three people to have served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, the others being Rab Butler and James Callaghan. He also served as Lord Chancellor, the most senior position in the British legal system. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon has received more than 406,825 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon is the 16,835th most popular politician (down from 15,421st in 2019), the 5,196th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,778th in 2019) and the 595th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon ranks 16,835 out of 19,576. Before him are Ludwik Dorn, Buta Singh, Michael D. Griffin, Elena Salgado, Yuli Tamir, and Mirja Lehtonen. After him are John C. Stennis, Susan Rice, Diarmait Mac Murchada, Nathaniel P. Banks, Cory Booker, and Denis Bećirović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon ranks 194. Before him are Halvdan Koht, Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, Charles Schlee, James Jones, Herbert Roper Barrett, and Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen. After him are Charles Avery, Leonid Leonidov, Dmitry Ushakov, Dorothy Richardson, Louisa Garrett Anderson, and Lady Ottoline Morrell. Among people deceased in 1954, John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon ranks 160. Before him are Zhang Shichuan, Eugene Pallette, Charles Perrin, Vera Gaze, Cayetano Saporiti, and Alain LeRoy Locke. After him are Gavino Matta, Johnny Ace, Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, Frederick Humphreys, Ellen Roosevelt, and Moroni Olsen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon ranks 5,196 out of 8,785. Before him are Andy McNab (1959), John Claudius Loudon (1783), Dennis Wise (1966), Paul Oakenfold (1963), Brian Bennett (1940), and Jeffrey Goldstone (1933). After him are Janet Simpson (1944), Brian Jacques (1939), Harry Mallin (1892), Duffy (1984), Joan Greenwood (1921), and Thomas Allen (1944).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon ranks 595. Before him are Titus Oates (1649), William Lyon Mackenzie (1795), Nellie Sengupta (1886), William Paterson (1745), Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (1705), and Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch (1748). After him are Denis Healey (1917), James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612), Jeremy Hunt (1966), Donald Dewar (1937), Jo Cox (1974), and Harriet Harman (1950).

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