1819 - 1901
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (17 September 1819 – 19 May 1901) was a South African political leader. An Afrikaner (or "Boer"), he helped establish the South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek or ZAR; also referred to as Transvaal), was the first president of the ZAR, and also compiled its constitution.He was born in Cape Colony, then accompanied his father, the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius in the migration to the interior. After the death of his father in 1853, he was appointed to succeed him as Commandant-General of the Boer settlers around the city of Potchefstroom and moved from his farm, Kalkheuwel, near Broederstroom, to Potchefstroom. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marthinus Wessel Pretorius has received more than 189,106 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Marthinus Wessel Pretorius is the 11,428th most popular politician (down from 9,210th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 45th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular South African Politician.
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Among politicians, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius ranks 11,428 out of 15,577. Before him are Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Frits Bolkestein, Mohammed Waheed Hassan, Fazıl Küçük, Sergius Paulus, and Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster. After him are Adlai Stevenson I, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, Henry Paulson, José Miguel Gómez, Raúl Leoni, and Leopold II, Prince of Lippe.
1926 - 2009
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 11,422
1933 - Present
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 11,423
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 11,424
1906 - 1984
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 11,425
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 11,426
1281 - 1345
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 11,427
1819 - 1901
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 11,428
1835 - 1914
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 11,429
1405 - 1469
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 11,430
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 11,431
1858 - 1921
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 11,432
1905 - 1972
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 11,433
1796 - 1851
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 11,434
Among people born in 1819, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius ranks 65. Before him are Charles Kingsley, James Russell Lowell, Vatroslav Lisinski, Edwin Drake, Théodore Gouvy, and Nicolae Bălcescu. After him are Abe Masahiro, Butrus al-Bustani, Pieter Bleeker, Martin Johnson Heade, Ernst Falkbeer, and Samuel Brannan. Among people deceased in 1901, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius ranks 50. Before him are Cornelius Gurlitt, Carlo Alfredo Piatti, Arvid Posse, Aleksander Gierymski, Alfred Tysoe, and Wojciech Gerson. After him are Jacob Georg Agardh, Alexander Kovalevsky, Peter Benoit, Jules Barbier, Edward John Eyre, and Frederic W. H. Myers.
1819 - 1875
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 59
1819 - 1891
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 60
1819 - 1854
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 61
1819 - 1880
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 62
1819 - 1898
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 63
1819 - 1852
HPI: 50.65
Rank: 64
1819 - 1901
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 65
1819 - 1857
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 66
1819 - 1883
HPI: 50.08
Rank: 67
1819 - 1870
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 68
1819 - 1904
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 69
1819 - 1885
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 70
1819 - 1889
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 71
1820 - 1901
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 44
1822 - 1901
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 45
1820 - 1901
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 46
1850 - 1901
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 47
1874 - 1901
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 48
1831 - 1901
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 49
1819 - 1901
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 50
1813 - 1901
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 51
1840 - 1901
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 52
1834 - 1901
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 53
1825 - 1901
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 54
1815 - 1901
HPI: 49.59
Rank: 55
1843 - 1901
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 56
Among people born in South Africa, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius ranks 67 out of 374. Before him are David Cooper (1931), Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), Abdullah Ibrahim (1934), Reggie Walker (1889), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), and Navi Pillay (1941). After him are J. G. Strijdom (1893), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Steve Nash (1974), Nico Diederichs (1903), Ronald Harwood (1934), and Piet Retief (1780).
1931 - 1986
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 61
1907 - 2004
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 62
1934 - Present
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 63
1889 - 1951
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 64
1939 - Present
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 65
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 66
1819 - 1901
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 67
1893 - 1958
HPI: 50.18
Rank: 68
1829 - 1888
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 69
1974 - Present
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 70
1903 - 1978
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 71
1934 - 2020
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 72
1780 - 1838
HPI: 49.63
Rank: 73
Among politicians born in South Africa, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius ranks 23. Before him are Marais Viljoen (1915), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), Christiaan de Wet (1854), C. R. Swart (1894), Piet Joubert (1834), and J. B. M. Hertzog (1866). After him are J. G. Strijdom (1893), Nico Diederichs (1903), Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), Oliver Tambo (1917), Walter Sisulu (1912), and Chris Hani (1942).
1915 - 2007
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 17
1795 - 1840
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 18
1854 - 1922
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 19
1894 - 1982
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 20
1834 - 1900
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 21
1866 - 1942
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 22
1819 - 1901
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 23
1893 - 1958
HPI: 50.18
Rank: 24
1903 - 1978
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 25
1868 - 1913
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 26
1917 - 1993
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 27
1912 - 2003
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 28
1942 - 1993
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 29