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Louis Riel

1844 - 1885

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Louis Riel (; French: [lwi ʁjɛl]; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people. He led two resistance movements against the Government of Canada and its first prime minister John A. Macdonald. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Riel has received more than 2,442,358 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Riel is the 7,274th most popular politician (up from 8,011th in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Canada (up from 138th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

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  • 2.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Louis Riel ranks 7,274 out of 15,577. Before him are Adam Wilhelm Moltke, Yizhixie, Kirill Kondrashin, Munjamyeong of Goguryeo, Alcetas I of Epirus, and Barbara Jagiellon. After him are Michail Stasinopoulos, Rafael Casanova, Hifikepunye Pohamba, Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Prince Alexandre of Belgium.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Louis Riel ranks 37. Before him are Saitō Hajime, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, Henry J. Heinz, Adolf Engler, Mihály Munkácsy, and Eduard Strasburger. After him are Minna Canth, Thomas Eakins, Joshua Slocum, Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Victorine Meurent, and Vasily Polenov. Among people deceased in 1885, Louis Riel ranks 24. Before him are Ferdinand Hiller, Zuo Zongtang, Edmond François Valentin About, Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, and Gustav Nachtigal. After him are Henri Tresca, George B. McClellan, Nikolay Danilevsky, Narcís Monturiol, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, and Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Louis Riel ranks 110 out of 1,350. Before him are Louis Slotin (1910), Norman Jewison (1926), Loreena McKennitt (1957), Joseph Wiseman (1918), David Foster (1949), and Margot Kidder (1948). After him are Fay Wray (1907), Marc Ouellet (1944), Peter Cullen (1941), Joshua Slocum (1844), Martin Short (1950), and Catherine O'Hara (1954).

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Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, Louis Riel ranks 6. Before him are Justin Trudeau (1971), Pierre Trudeau (1919), Marie-Louise Meilleur (1880), Lester B. Pearson (1897), and William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874). After him are Jean Chrétien (1934), Bonar Law (1858), Wilfrid Laurier (1841), Paul Martin (1938), Brian Mulroney (1939), and Terry Sawchuk (1929).

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