1893 - 1976
Mao Zedong (; Chinese: 毛泽东; December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, his theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism. Mao was the son of a prosperous peasant in Shaoshan, Hunan. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mao Zedong has received more than 14,224,612 page views. His biography is available in 160 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 156 in 2019). Mao Zedong is the 22nd most popular politician (up from 23rd 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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Among politicians, Mao Zedong ranks 22 out of 15,710. Before him are Attila, Suleiman the Magnificent, Hannibal, Benito Mussolini, Winston Churchill, and Otto von Bismarck. After him are Tutankhamun, Ulysses S. Grant, Cicero, Commodus, Umar, and Abraham Lincoln.
406 - 453
HPI: 90.29
Rank: 16
1494 - 1566
HPI: 90.22
Rank: 17
183 BC - 183 BC
HPI: 90.14
Rank: 18
1883 - 1945
HPI: 90.01
Rank: 19
1874 - 1965
HPI: 89.73
Rank: 20
1815 - 1898
HPI: 89.69
Rank: 21
1893 - 1976
HPI: 89.64
Rank: 22
1341 BC - 1323 BC
HPI: 89.49
Rank: 23
1822 - 1885
HPI: 89.27
Rank: 24
106 BC - 43 BC
HPI: 89.25
Rank: 25
161 - 192
HPI: 89.25
Rank: 26
585 - 644
HPI: 89.18
Rank: 27
1809 - 1865
HPI: 89.14
Rank: 28
Among people born in 1893, Mao Zedong ranks 1. After him are Hermann Göring, Joan Miró, Ip Man, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Walter Ulbricht, Carol II of Romania, Alexander of Greece, and Draža Mihailović. Among people deceased in 1976, Mao Zedong ranks 1. After him are Agatha Christie, Martin Heidegger, Howard Hughes, Werner Heisenberg, Alvar Aalto, Luchino Visconti, Max Ernst, Zhou Enlai, Bernard Montgomery, Fritz Lang, and Trofim Lysenko.
1893 - 1976
HPI: 89.64
Rank: 1
1893 - 1946
HPI: 84.33
Rank: 2
1893 - 1983
HPI: 83.17
Rank: 3
1893 - 1972
HPI: 82.24
Rank: 4
1893 - 1946
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 5
1893 - 1946
HPI: 80.00
Rank: 6
1893 - 1930
HPI: 78.93
Rank: 7
1893 - 1937
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 8
1893 - 1973
HPI: 77.44
Rank: 9
1893 - 1953
HPI: 76.70
Rank: 10
1893 - 1920
HPI: 75.60
Rank: 11
1893 - 1946
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 12
1893 - 1976
HPI: 89.64
Rank: 1
1890 - 1976
HPI: 87.74
Rank: 2
1889 - 1976
HPI: 86.01
Rank: 3
1905 - 1976
HPI: 85.21
Rank: 4
1901 - 1976
HPI: 84.24
Rank: 5
1898 - 1976
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 6
1906 - 1976
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 7
1891 - 1976
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 8
1898 - 1976
HPI: 79.16
Rank: 9
1887 - 1976
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 10
1890 - 1976
HPI: 77.93
Rank: 11
1898 - 1976
HPI: 77.26
Rank: 12
Among people born in China, Mao Zedong ranks 2 out of 1,186. Before him are Confucius (-551). After him are Huang Xianfan (1899), Qin Shi Huang (-258), Laozi (-604), Sun Tzu (-543), 14th Dalai Lama (1935), Zheng He (1387), Chiang Kai-shek (1887), Sima Qian (-145), Deng Xiaoping (1904), and Sun Yat-sen (1866).
551 BC - 479 BC
HPI: 93.64
Rank: 1
1893 - 1976
HPI: 89.64
Rank: 2
1899 - 1982
HPI: 88.19
Rank: 3
258 BC - 210 BC
HPI: 88.05
Rank: 4
604 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 5
543 BC - 495 BC
HPI: 85.45
Rank: 6
1935 - Present
HPI: 85.27
Rank: 7
1387 - 1433
HPI: 85.13
Rank: 8
1887 - 1975
HPI: 84.65
Rank: 9
145 BC - 86 BC
HPI: 84.26
Rank: 10
1904 - 1997
HPI: 84.13
Rank: 11
1866 - 1925
HPI: 84.12
Rank: 12
Among politicians born in China, Mao Zedong ranks 1. After him are Huang Xianfan (1899), Qin Shi Huang (-258), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Sun Yat-sen (1866), Kublai Khan (1215), Puyi (1906), Empress Dowager Cixi (1835), Wu Zetian (624), Xi Jinping (1953), Hu Jintao (1942), and Kangxi Emperor (1654).
1893 - 1976
HPI: 89.64
Rank: 1
1899 - 1982
HPI: 88.19
Rank: 2
258 BC - 210 BC
HPI: 88.05
Rank: 3
1904 - 1997
HPI: 84.13
Rank: 4
1866 - 1925
HPI: 84.12
Rank: 5
1215 - 1294
HPI: 84.04
Rank: 6
1906 - 1967
HPI: 83.15
Rank: 7
1835 - 1908
HPI: 82.70
Rank: 8
624 - 705
HPI: 81.81
Rank: 9
1953 - Present
HPI: 81.64
Rank: 10
1942 - Present
HPI: 81.41
Rank: 11
1654 - 1722
HPI: 81.25
Rank: 12