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Joseph Lyons

1879 - 1939

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Joseph Aloysius Lyons (15 September 1879 – 7 April 1939) was an Australian politician who was the tenth prime minister of Australia, in office from 1932 until his death in 1939. He began his career in the Australian Labor Party (ALP), but became the founding leader of the United Australia Party (UAP) after the Australian Labor Party split of 1931. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Lyons has received more than 476,937 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Joseph Lyons is the 16,140th most popular politician (down from 15,427th in 2019), the 290th most popular biography from Australia (up from 294th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Australian Politician.

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  • 4.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joseph Lyons ranks 16,140 out of 19,576. Before him are Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah, Aristides Royo, Herman Gref, Bärbel Bas, Xiang Jingyu, and Jean-Louis Borloo. After him are Osred I of Northumbria, José Sánchez-Guerra y Martínez, Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur, Amit Shah, Fred M. Vinson, and James Goldsmith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Joseph Lyons ranks 231. Before him are Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok, Otto Nilsson, Francesco Severi, Marion Jones Farquhar, Annie Kenney, and Søren Marinus Jensen. After him are Clyde Cessna, Alice Greene, Otto Fickeisen, Øistein Schirmer, Waldemar Tietgens, and Frank Odberg. Among people deceased in 1939, Joseph Lyons ranks 152. Before him are Alvah Meyer, James Parrott, Walter Gordon, Louis Eugène Roy, Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová, and Boris Shchukin. After him are Robert Farnan, Siegfried Flesch, Chick Webb, Aurelio Mosquera, Eliodoro Villazón, and Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Joseph Lyons ranks 290 out of 1,143. Before him are Cathy Freeman (1973), Lenka (1978), Andrew Lesnie (1956), John Devitt (1937), Simone Young (1961), and Ben Chifley (1885). After him are Mary MacKillop (1842), Michael Jeffery (1937), Edgar Moon (1904), Helen Gourlay (1946), Arthur Fadden (1894), and Daphne Akhurst (1903).

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Among POLITICIANS In Australia

Among politicians born in Australia, Joseph Lyons ranks 29. Before him are Gregory Mathews (1876), Peter Garrett (1953), Stanley Bruce (1883), Earle Page (1880), Andrew Lesnie (1956), and Ben Chifley (1885). After him are Michael Jeffery (1937), Arthur Fadden (1894), James Scullin (1876), John McEwen (1900), Frank Forde (1890), and Joan Hartigan (1912).

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