1824 - 1893
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 – June 21, 1893) was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from California. He served as the 8th Governor of California from 1862 to 1863 and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1885 until his death in 1893. He and his wife Jane founded Stanford University, named after their late son.Stanford was a successful merchant and wholesaler who migrated to California during the Gold Rush and built a business empire. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leland Stanford has received more than 1,704,333 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Leland Stanford is the 6,097th most popular politician (up from 6,306th in 2019), the 2,073rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,211th in 2019) and the 130th most popular American Politician.
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Among politicians, Leland Stanford ranks 6,097 out of 15,577. Before him are Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma, Henryk IV Probus, Rimush, 7th Dalai Lama, King Li of Zhou, and Rahmon Nabiyev. After him are Laurent Fabius, Emperor Go-Hanazono, Proclus of Constantinople, Frederick William, Duke of Courland, Max Koegel, and Sobekhotep IV.
1678 - 1727
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 6,091
1256 - 1290
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 6,092
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 6,093
1708 - 1757
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 6,094
850 BC - 828 BC
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 6,095
1930 - 1993
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 6,096
1824 - 1893
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 6,097
1946 - Present
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 6,098
1419 - 1471
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 6,099
310 - 446
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 6,100
1692 - 1711
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 6,101
1895 - 1946
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 6,102
1700 BC - 1720 BC
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 6,103
Among people born in 1824, Leland Stanford ranks 25. Before him are Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Tokugawa Iesada, Ludwig Büchner, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, and Nana Sahib. After him are Princess Francisca of Brazil, Pierre Janssen, Peter Cornelius, Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden, Jozef Israëls, and George MacDonald. Among people deceased in 1893, Leland Stanford ranks 21. Before him are George Tupou I, Baron Alexander von Bach, Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria, Alfredo Catalani, Heinrich Göbel, and P. G. T. Beauregard. After him are Abner Doubleday, Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Ferenc Erkel, Alexander Cunningham, and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle.
1824 - 1897
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 19
1824 - 1882
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 20
1824 - 1858
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 21
1824 - 1899
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 22
1824 - 1914
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 23
1824 - 1859
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 24
1824 - 1893
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 25
1824 - 1898
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 26
1824 - 1907
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 27
1824 - 1874
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 28
1824 - 1858
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 29
1824 - 1911
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 30
1824 - 1905
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 31
1797 - 1893
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 15
1813 - 1893
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 16
1849 - 1893
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 17
1854 - 1893
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 18
1818 - 1893
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 19
1818 - 1893
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 20
1824 - 1893
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 21
1819 - 1893
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 22
1847 - 1893
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 23
1831 - 1893
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 24
1810 - 1893
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 25
1814 - 1893
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 26
1806 - 1893
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 27
Among people born in United States, Leland Stanford ranks 2,073 out of 18,182. Before him are Eric Adams (1952), Johnny Winter (1944), Georgina Spelvin (1936), Walter Tevis (1928), Alan Menken (1949), and Madeleine Stowe (1958). After him are Perry Como (1912), Tommie Smith (1944), Teri Hatcher (1964), Candice Bergen (1946), Tanya Roberts (1955), and Harpo Marx (1888).
1952 - Present
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 2,067
1944 - 2014
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 2,068
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 2,069
1928 - 1984
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 2,070
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 2,071
1958 - Present
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 2,072
1824 - 1893
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 2,073
1912 - 2001
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 2,074
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 2,075
1964 - Present
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 2,076
1946 - Present
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 2,077
1955 - 2021
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 2,078
1888 - 1964
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 2,079
Among politicians born in United States, Leland Stanford ranks 130. Before him are Bob Dole (1923), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), Sam Houston (1793), Paul Ryan (1970), Jack Kemp (1935), and Paul Wolfowitz (1943). After him are Curtis LeMay (1906), Ron Paul (1935), Paul P. Harris (1868), Prescott Bush (1895), Henry A. Wallace (1888), and Oliver Winchester (1810).
1923 - 2021
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 124
1858 - 1922
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 125
1793 - 1863
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 126
1970 - Present
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 127
1935 - 2009
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 128
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 129
1824 - 1893
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 130
1906 - 1990
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 131
1935 - Present
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 132
1868 - 1947
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 133
1895 - 1972
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 134
1888 - 1965
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 135
1810 - 1880
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 136