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Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

1900 - 1979

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Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, 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 26,499,994 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma is the 1,037th most popular politician (down from 690th in 2019), the 234th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 183rd in 2019) and the 46th 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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ranks 1,037 out of 19,576. Before him are Sergey Kirov, Maximinus Thrax, Injo of Joseon, Ptolemy VIII Physcon, Ferdinand VI of Spain, and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. After him are Irma Grese, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Louis V of France, Gustáv Husák, and Liu Shaoqi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ranks 13. Before him are Wolfgang Pauli, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Heinrich Müller, and Adolf Dassler. After him are Vasily Chuikov, Margaret Mitchell, Spencer Tracy, Dennis Gabor, Sándor Márai, and Jacques Prévert. Among people deceased in 1979, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ranks 9. Before him are John Wayne, Giuseppe Meazza, Talcott Parsons, Herbert Marcuse, Nino Rota, and Jean Renoir. After him are Jean Monnet, Sándor Kocsis, Mika Waltari, Dennis Gabor, Ludvík Svoboda, and Jean Seberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ranks 234 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Glover Barkla (1877), Stan Laurel (1890), Clement Attlee (1883), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Harold Godwinson (1022), and Syd Barrett (1946). After him are Benjamin Disraeli (1804), William Wordsworth (1770), John Law (1671), Edward the Black Prince (1330), John Constable (1776), and Jeremy Irons (1948).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ranks 46. Before him are Arthur Henderson (1863), Charles II of England (1630), Henry I of England (1068), Edward the Elder (871), Clement Attlee (1883), and Harold Godwinson (1022). After him are Benjamin Disraeli (1804), James II of England (1633), David Lloyd George (1863), Æthelred I, King of Wessex (837), Ælfweard of Wessex (904), and Liz Truss (1975).

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