POLITICIAN

Mao Zedong

1893 - 1976

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Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976) was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976, while also serving as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party during that time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mao Zedong has received more than 24,220,600 page views. His biography is available in 172 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 163 in 2019). Mao Zedong is the 27th most popular politician (up from 28th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from China and the most popular Chinese Politician.

Mao Zedong was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China. He is most famous for being the leader of the People's Republic of China.

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  • 24M

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  • 85.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 172

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mao Zedongs by language

Over the past year Mao Zedong has had the most page views in the with 3,132,427 views, followed by Chinese (2,275,200), and Spanish (491,275). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are (789.57%), (215.33%), and Hausa (210.68%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mao Zedong ranks 27 out of 19,576Before him are Andrew Jackson, Elizabeth I of England, Vladimir Putin, Louis XVI of France, Benito Mussolini, and Hammurabi. After him are Cicero, Huang Xianfan, Constantine the Great, Winston Churchill, Attila, and Osman I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Mao Zedong ranks 1After him are Hermann Göring, Joan Miró, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ip Man, Alfred Rosenberg, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Walter Ulbricht, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Carol II of Romania, Alexander of Greece, and Soong Ching-ling. Among people deceased in 1976, Mao Zedong ranks 1After him are Agatha Christie, Martin Heidegger, Werner Heisenberg, Howard Hughes, Alvar Aalto, Luchino Visconti, Zhou Enlai, Fritz Lang, Max Ernst, Jean Gabin, and Bernard Montgomery.

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In China

Among people born in China, Mao Zedong ranks 2 out of 1,610Before him are Confucius (-551). After him are Huang Xianfan (1899), Qin Shi Huang (-258), Sun Tzu (-544), Laozi (-604), Zheng He (1387), Sun Yat-sen (1866), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Li Bai (701), Sima Qian (-145), and 14th Dalai Lama (1935).

Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Mao Zedong ranks 1After him are Huang Xianfan (1899), Qin Shi Huang (-258), Sun Yat-sen (1866), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Xi Jinping (1953), Kublai Khan (1215), Empress Dowager Cixi (1835), Wu Zetian (624), Hu Jintao (1942), Qianlong Emperor (1711), and Liu Bei (161).