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Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

1888 - 1969

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Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. He is known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children and was a patriarch of the Kennedy family, which included President John F. Kennedy, attorney general and senator Robert F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. has received more than 10,620,319 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. is the 2,835th most popular politician (down from 2,542nd in 2019), the 893rd most popular biography from United States (down from 833rd in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Politician.

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was a businessman, investor, and politician who served as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1940. He was the father of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime Senator Ted Kennedy.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. ranks 2,835 out of 19,576. Before him are Emperor Go-Daigo, Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain, Narseh, Gevherhan Sultan, Wei Yan, and Ḫattušili I. After him are Tiridates III of Armenia, Ptolemy Keraunos, Servilia, Qazi Muhammad, 3rd Dalai Lama, and Nicola Amati.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. ranks 39. Before him are Andrei Tupolev, Anton Makarenko, Inge Lehmann, Abul Kalam Azad, Katherine Mansfield, and Georges Bernanos. After him are Vladimir K. Zworykin, Ossip Zadkine, Frances Marion, Josef Albers, Ernst Heinkel, and Ernst Kretschmer. Among people deceased in 1969, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. ranks 27. Before him are Jack Kerouac, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Princess Alice of Battenberg, Dominique Pire, Witold Gombrowicz, and Arthur Friedenreich. After him are Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Moïse Tshombe, Josef von Sternberg, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Alexandra David-Néel, and B. Traven.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. ranks 893 out of 20,380. Before him are Dizzy Gillespie (1917), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), Carole Lombard (1908), John Holmes (1944), Courteney Cox (1964), and Leon Uris (1924). After him are William Hanna (1910), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), Irving Fisher (1867), Magic Johnson (1959), Maya Angelou (1928), and George A. Romero (1940).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. ranks 80. Before him are James E. Webb (1906), Ted Kennedy (1932), Michael Bloomberg (1942), Rudy Giuliani (1944), John Sherman (1823), and Michelle Obama (1964). After him are Lewis Strauss (1896), Jill Biden (1951), Barbara Bush (1925), Condoleezza Rice (1954), Éamon de Valera (1882), and Frank B. Kellogg (1856).

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