1884 - 1968
Joseph Clovis Louis Marie Emmanuel Pholien (28 December 1884 – 4 January 1968) was a Belgian Catholic politician and member of the PSC-CVP. He was born in Liège, and volunteered to serve with the Belgian army during World War I, being commissioned as a first lieutenant. He was the minister of Justice under Paul-Henri Spaak from May 1938 to February 1939 and was the prime minister of Belgium from 16 August 1950 to 15 January 1952. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Pholien has received more than 27,834 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Joseph Pholien is the 13,874th most popular politician (down from 11,437th in 2019), the 588th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 482nd in 2019) and the 118th most popular Belgian Politician.
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Among politicians, Joseph Pholien ranks 13,874 out of 15,577. Before him are Emma Asson, José Rondeau, Ranasinghe Premadasa, José María Carreño, Tom Thabane, and Abdul Qadir al-Badri. After him are Franco Frattini, Els Borst, Gustavo Petro, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent, and Francesca Bonnemaison i Farriols.
1889 - 1965
HPI: 46.00
Rank: 13,868
1773 - 1844
HPI: 46.00
Rank: 13,869
1924 - 1993
HPI: 45.99
Rank: 13,870
1792 - 1849
HPI: 45.99
Rank: 13,871
1939 - Present
HPI: 45.99
Rank: 13,872
1921 - 2003
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 13,873
1884 - 1968
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 13,874
1957 - 2022
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 13,875
1932 - 2014
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 13,876
1960 - Present
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 13,877
1924 - 2011
HPI: 45.97
Rank: 13,878
1410 - Present
HPI: 45.97
Rank: 13,879
1872 - 1949
HPI: 45.97
Rank: 13,880
Among people born in 1884, Joseph Pholien ranks 166. Before him are Kostas Varnalis, Albert Londres, León Felipe, George Underwood, Axel Norling, and Mia May. After him are Giannino Castiglioni, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, Otto Froitzheim, Molla Mallory, Fumio Gotō, and Sergey Gorodetsky. Among people deceased in 1968, Joseph Pholien ranks 174. Before him are Alfredo Foglino, Branislav Sekulić, Verner Weckman, Enoch L. Johnson, Johann Horvath, and Giuseppe Enrici. After him are Antonio Pesenti, Franco Riccardi, Eivar Widlund, Leo Sexton, Luigi Cevenini, and Eben Dönges.
1884 - 1974
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 160
1884 - 1932
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 161
1884 - 1968
HPI: 46.50
Rank: 162
1884 - 1943
HPI: 46.32
Rank: 163
1884 - 1964
HPI: 46.30
Rank: 164
1884 - 1980
HPI: 46.14
Rank: 165
1884 - 1968
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 166
1884 - 1971
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 167
1884 - 1954
HPI: 45.94
Rank: 168
1884 - 1962
HPI: 45.87
Rank: 169
1884 - 1959
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 170
1884 - 1980
HPI: 45.70
Rank: 171
1884 - 1967
HPI: 45.58
Rank: 172
1892 - 1968
HPI: 46.40
Rank: 168
1906 - 1968
HPI: 46.35
Rank: 169
1882 - 1968
HPI: 46.32
Rank: 170
1883 - 1968
HPI: 46.19
Rank: 171
1903 - 1968
HPI: 46.18
Rank: 172
1896 - 1968
HPI: 46.18
Rank: 173
1884 - 1968
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 174
1908 - 1968
HPI: 45.92
Rank: 175
1905 - 1968
HPI: 45.91
Rank: 176
1905 - 1968
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 177
1909 - 1968
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 178
1895 - 1968
HPI: 45.67
Rank: 179
1898 - 1968
HPI: 45.57
Rank: 180
Among people born in Belgium, Joseph Pholien ranks 588 out of 1,019. Before him are Thomas Meunier (1991), Paul Deman (1889), Patrick Nève (1949), Johan De Muynck (1948), Yannick Carrasco (1993), and Arthur Legat (1898). After him are Jean Vallée (1941), Françoise Mallet-Joris (1930), Jules Renkin (1862), Aimé Haegeman (1861), Paul van Ostaijen (1896), and Jacob van Maerlant (1235).
1991 - Present
HPI: 46.10
Rank: 582
1889 - 1961
HPI: 46.09
Rank: 583
1949 - 2017
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 584
1948 - Present
HPI: 46.05
Rank: 585
1993 - Present
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 586
1898 - 1960
HPI: 46.02
Rank: 587
1884 - 1968
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 588
1941 - 2014
HPI: 45.97
Rank: 589
1930 - 2016
HPI: 45.96
Rank: 590
1862 - 1934
HPI: 45.93
Rank: 591
1861 - 1935
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 592
1896 - 1928
HPI: 45.89
Rank: 593
1235 - 1300
HPI: 45.89
Rank: 594
Among politicians born in Belgium, Joseph Pholien ranks 118. Before him are Edmond Leburton (1915), Charles de Broqueville (1860), Jean Van Houtte (1907), Hubert Pierlot (1883), Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (1790), and Felix de Muelenaere (1793). After him are Jules Renkin (1862), Théo Lefèvre (1914), Willy De Clercq (1927), Reginar IV, Count of Mons (null), Georges Theunis (1873), and Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (1794).
1915 - 1997
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 112
1860 - 1940
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 113
1907 - 1991
HPI: 46.74
Rank: 114
1883 - 1963
HPI: 46.72
Rank: 115
1790 - 1873
HPI: 46.62
Rank: 116
1793 - 1862
HPI: 46.30
Rank: 117
1884 - 1968
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 118
1862 - 1934
HPI: 45.93
Rank: 119
1914 - 1973
HPI: 45.72
Rank: 120
1927 - 2011
HPI: 45.09
Rank: 121
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 122
1873 - 1966
HPI: 44.88
Rank: 123
1794 - 1874
HPI: 44.79
Rank: 124