1759 - 1820
Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante, 1st Comte Fouché (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf fuʃe], 21 May 1759 – 25 December 1820) was a French statesman, revolutionary, and Minister of Police under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, who later became a subordinate of Emperor Napoleon. He was particularly known for the ferocity with which he suppressed the Lyon insurrection during the Revolution in 1793 and for being minister of police under the Directory, the Consulate, and the Empire. In 1815, he served as President of the Executive Commission, which was the provisional government of France installed after the abdication of Napoleon. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Fouché has received more than 589,853 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Joseph Fouché is the 4th most popular public worker, the 255th most popular biography from France (up from 280th in 2019) and the most popular French Public Worker.
Joseph Fouché was a French politician and police chief. He is most famous for being the head of the police during the reign of Napoleon.
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Among public workers, Joseph Fouché ranks 4 out of 15. Before him are Draco, Emperor Taishō, and Alois Hitler. After him are Mikhail Kalinin, Gaius Maecenas, Thomas Cromwell, Robert Walpole, Demetrius of Phalerum, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Markus Wolf, and John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute.
650 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 1
1879 - 1926
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 2
1837 - 1903
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 3
1759 - 1820
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 4
1875 - 1946
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 5
68 BC - 8 BC
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 6
1485 - 1540
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 7
1676 - 1745
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 8
350 BC - 282 BC
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 9
1941 - 2010
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 10
1923 - 2006
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 11
1713 - 1792
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1759, Joseph Fouché ranks 3. Before him are Friedrich Schiller and Georges Danton. After him are Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Feodorovna, Robert Burns, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, William Wilberforce, William Pitt the Younger, Clotilde of France, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, and Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1820, Joseph Fouché ranks 2. Before him is George III of the United Kingdom. After him are Jiaqing Emperor, Elisa Bonaparte, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, François Christophe de Kellermann, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, François Joseph Lefebvre, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Henri Christophe, Gia Long, and Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange.
1759 - 1805
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 1
1759 - 1794
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 2
1759 - 1820
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 3
1759 - 1797
HPI: 71.49
Rank: 4
1759 - 1828
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 5
1759 - 1796
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 6
1759 - 1824
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 7
1759 - 1833
HPI: 63.06
Rank: 8
1759 - 1806
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 9
1759 - 1802
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 10
1759 - 1818
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 11
1759 - 1838
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 12
1738 - 1820
HPI: 74.34
Rank: 1
1759 - 1820
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 2
1760 - 1820
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 3
1777 - 1820
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 4
1767 - 1820
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 5
1735 - 1820
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 6
1771 - 1820
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 7
1755 - 1820
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 8
1778 - 1820
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 9
1767 - 1820
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 10
1762 - 1820
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 11
1751 - 1820
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Joseph Fouché ranks 255 out of 6,011. Before him are Charles Gounod (1818), Pierre Corneille (1606), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), Charles I of Anjou (1226), Vincent de Paul (1581), and Charles the Simple (879). After him are Georges Cuvier (1769), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Olympe de Gouges (1748), Berthe Morisot (1841), and Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684).
1818 - 1893
HPI: 72.23
Rank: 249
1606 - 1684
HPI: 72.20
Rank: 250
1611 - 1673
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 251
1226 - 1285
HPI: 72.17
Rank: 252
1581 - 1660
HPI: 72.17
Rank: 253
879 - 929
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 254
1759 - 1820
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 255
1769 - 1832
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 256
1732 - 1806
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 257
1778 - 1850
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 258
1748 - 1793
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 259
1841 - 1895
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 260
1684 - 1721
HPI: 71.89
Rank: 261
Among public workers born in France, Joseph Fouché ranks 1. After him are Pascal Lamy (1947).