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Madeleine Albright

1937 - 2022

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Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Körbelová, later Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. She was the first woman to hold the position. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Albright immigrated to the United States after the 1948 communist coup d'état when she was eleven years old. Her father, diplomat Josef Korbel, settled the family in Denver, Colorado, and she became a U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Madeleine Albright has received more than 8,410,793 page views. Her biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Madeleine Albright is the 13th most popular diplomat (down from 12th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 42nd in 2019) and the most popular Czech Diplomat.

Madeleine Albright is most famous for being the first female Secretary of State in the United States.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 82

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Madeleine Albright ranks 13 out of 90. Before her are Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Alexandra Kollontai, Ban Ki-moon, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Raoul Wallenberg, and Lucien Bonaparte. After her are Folke Bernadotte, John R. Bolton, Chaim Herzog, Mohamed ElBaradei, Alva Myrdal, and Antony Blinken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Madeleine Albright ranks 18. Before her are Queen Sonja of Norway, Martti Ahtisaari, Boris Spassky, Renzo Piano, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and Queen Paola of Belgium. After her are Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Vanessa Redgrave, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, Robert Coleman Richardson, and Egon Krenz. Among people deceased in 2022, Madeleine Albright ranks 16. Before her are Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Leonid Kravchuk, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Olivia Newton-John. After her are Monica Vitti, Ben Roy Mottelson, Vivienne Westwood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Robbie Coltrane, and José Eduardo dos Santos.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Madeleine Albright ranks 45 out of 1,200. Before her are Karl Kautsky (1854), Emil Zátopek (1922), Max Brod (1884), Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907), Bernard Bolzano (1781), and Adolf Loos (1870). After her are Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), Ludvík Svoboda (1895), Antonín Panenka (1948), Gerty Cori (1896), Josef Masopust (1931), and Adalbert of Prague (955).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Czechia

Among diplomats born in Czechia, Madeleine Albright ranks 1. 

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