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Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook

1879 - 1964

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William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (25 May 1879 – 9 June 1964), generally known as Lord Beaverbrook ("Max" to his close circle), was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century. His base of power was the largest circulation newspaper in the world, the Daily Express, which appealed to the conservative working class with intensely patriotic news and editorials. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook has received more than 868,926 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook is the 14,334th most popular politician (down from 13,465th in 2019), the 430th most popular biography from Canada (up from 440th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Canadian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook ranks 14,334 out of 15,577. Before him are Georges Theunis, Óscar Osorio, Octa of Kent, Margaret Abbott, Ylli Bufi, and Vladimir Konstantinov. After him are Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, John Hunter, José María Pérez de Urdininea, Manfred Stolpe, and Eduardo Schaerer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook ranks 186. Before him are Agnes Arber, Birger Sörvik, Frederick Schule, Gabriel Miró, Arthur Johnson, and Vivian Woodward. After him are Otto Nilsson, Ferenc Móra, Royal Harwood Frost, Maurice Vignerot, Sara Allgood, and Rupert Julian. Among people deceased in 1964, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook ranks 160. Before him are Patrick Ryan, Sakari Tuomioja, Hedwig Kohn, Albina Osipowich, Johnny Burnette, and Lars Christensen. After him are Nella Larsen, Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek, Per Nilsson, Joe Gaetjens, Eugène Olivier, and Adolf Šimperský.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook ranks 430 out of 1,350. Before him are Maurice Prendergast (1858), Yvonne Brill (1924), Joshua Jackson (1978), Tamara Taylor (1970), August Ames (1994), and Kathleen Robertson (1973). After him are Marcel Dionne (1951), Rosa Salazar (1985), Louise Arbour (1947), Erica Durance (1978), David H. Levy (1948), and Corey Haim (1971).

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Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook ranks 35. Before him are Robert Borden (1854), Arthur Meighen (1874), Tommy Burns (1881), Jacques Parizeau (1930), François Legault (1957), and John Sparrow David Thompson (1845). After him are Scotty Bowman (1933), Ian Millar (1947), Ted Cruz (1970), Pauline Marois (1949), Nancy Greene Raine (1943), and George-Étienne Cartier (1814).

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