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Mao Zedong

1893 - 1976

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Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, political theorist, poet, and communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he led as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from the establishment of the PRC 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 21,843,979 page views. His biography is available in 163 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 160 in 2019). Mao Zedong is the 29th most popular politician (down from 22nd 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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  • 85.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 163

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mao Zedong ranks 29 out of 15,577. Before him are Otto von Bismarck, Hammurabi, Cicero, Mikhail Gorbachev, Attila, and Hurrem Sultan. After him are Queen Victoria, Commodus, Osman I, Abraham Lincoln, Qin Shi Huang, and Louis XVI of France.

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Contemporaries

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

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In China

Among people born in China, Mao Zedong ranks 2 out of 1,392. Before him are Confucius (-551). After him are Qin Shi Huang (-258), Huang Xianfan (1899), Laozi (-604), Sun Tzu (-544), Zheng He (1387), 14th Dalai Lama (1935), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Sun Yat-sen (1866), Kublai Khan (1215), and Sima Qian (-145).

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Mao Zedong ranks 1. After him are Qin Shi Huang (-258), Huang Xianfan (1899), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Sun Yat-sen (1866), Kublai Khan (1215), Xi Jinping (1953), Puyi (1906), Hu Jintao (1942), Empress Dowager Cixi (1835), Wu Zetian (624), and Qianlong Emperor (1711).

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