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Leonidas I

540 BC - 480 BC

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His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonidas I is the 355th most popular politician (down from 241st in 2024), the 40th most popular biography from Greece (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Greek Politician.

Leonidas I is most famous for leading a small army of 300 Spartans to victory against the Persian Empire at the Battle of Thermopylae.

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Among Politicians

Among politicians, Leonidas I ranks 355 out of 19,576Before him are Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Empress Dowager Cixi, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Lycurgus of Sparta, Alexander I of Russia, and Zoë Porphyrogenita. After him are Edward Heath, Zog I of Albania, Clara Zetkin, François Hollande, Nerva, and Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 540 BC, Leonidas I ranks 1After him are Miltiades, Leotychidas, Amyntas I of Macedon, Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis, and Spurius Cassius Viscellinus. Among people deceased in 480 BC, Leonidas I ranks 1After him are Mahapajapati Gotami, Ephialtes of Trachis, Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis, Cleombrotus, Onomacritus, and Hamilcar I of Carthage.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Leonidas I ranks 40 out of NaNBefore him are Nurbanu Sultan (1525), Gorgias (-483), Themistocles (-524), Ptolemy I Soter (-367), Cleisthenes (-565), and Lycurgus of Sparta (-800). After him are Peisistratos (-600), Theophrastus (-371), Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha (1493), Miltiades (-540), Aristarchus of Samos (-311), and Pope Sixtus II (215).

Among Politicians In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Leonidas I ranks 11Before him are Philip II of Macedon (-382), Kösem Sultan (1590), Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769), Demosthenes (-384), Cleisthenes (-565), and Lycurgus of Sparta (-800). After him are Peisistratos (-600), Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha (1493), Alcibiades (-450), Irene of Athens (752), Xanthippe (-500), and Constantine II of Greece (1940).

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