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Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

1900 - 1979

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Admiral of the Fleet Albert Victor Nicholas Louis Francis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg family. He was a maternal uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and a second cousin of King George VI. He joined the Royal Navy during the First World War and was appointed Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command, in the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma has received more than 25,977,406 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma is the 691st most popular politician (up from 827th in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 217th in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Politician.

Mountbatten was a British naval officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II. He served as First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy from 1954 to 1959 and Chief of the Defence Staff from 1959 to 1965.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ranks 691 out of 15,577Before him are Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Louis the Stammerer, Albert I of Belgium, Yuan Shikai, Enver Pasha, and Edvard Beneš. After him are Enrico Dandolo, Childeric III, Henry I of England, Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Maximinus Thrax, and Ilse Koch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ranks 11Before him are Erich Fromm, Luis Buñuel, Wolfgang Pauli, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Hans Frank. After him are Spencer Tracy, Heinrich Müller, Vasily Chuikov, Margaret Mitchell, Adolf Dassler, and Jacques Prévert. Among people deceased in 1979, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ranks 6Before him are Josef Mengele, Park Chung-hee, John Wayne, Giuseppe Meazza, and Talcott Parsons. After him are Nino Rota, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Renoir, Hafizullah Amin, Jean Seberg, and Sándor Kocsis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ranks 183 out of 7,765Before him are Helen Mirren (1945), Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank (1935), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), Anna Wintour (1949), and Edward Smith (1850). After him are Humphry Davy (1778), Henry I of England (1068), Elizabeth Woodville (1437), Mary Boleyn (1499), Jeff Beck (1944), and Arnold J. Toynbee (1889).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ranks 39Before him are Anthony Eden (1897), John, King of England (1166), George IV of the United Kingdom (1762), Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665), Edward the Elder (871), and Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830). After him are Henry I of England (1068), Henry III of England (1207), Charles II of England (1630), Ecgberht, King of Wessex (800), Arthur Henderson (1863), and Harold Godwinson (1022).