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Michael Howard

1941 - Today

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Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne (born Michael Hecht; 7 July 1941) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005. He previously held cabinet positions in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Employment, Secretary of State for the Environment and Home Secretary. Howard was born in Swansea to a Jewish family, his father from Romania and his mother from Wales. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Howard has received more than 1,525,673 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 30 in 2019). Michael Howard is the 14,942nd most popular politician (down from 12,408th in 2019), the 4,385th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,333rd in 2019) and the 535th most popular British Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Michael Howard ranks 14,942 out of 15,577. Before him are Alfred Raoul, Kristján Jónsson, Kono Yasui, Daniel Elena, Mary Arthur McElroy, and Carmen Calvo Poyato. After him are José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno, Ram Vilas Paswan, Neven Mimica, Charles Tupper, George J. Mitchell, and Jorge Quiroga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Michael Howard ranks 454. Before him are R. James Woolsey Jr., Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Kálmán Ihász, Dack Rambo, Wilfrid Napier, and Kaarlo Kangasniemi. After him are Wolfgang Blochwitz, Armand Forcherio, Jagjit Singh, Anton Pronk, David Darling, and Jean-Claude Magnan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Howard ranks 4,385 out of 7,765. Before him are Sarah Waters (1966), Thomas Hughes (1822), Prideaux John Selby (1788), Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860), William Beechey (1753), and Denis Lawson (1947). After him are Florence Pugh (1996), Richie Hawtin (1970), George E. P. Box (1919), Darren Shan (1972), Stephen Morris (1957), and Chris Thomas (1947).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Michael Howard ranks 535. Before him are Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536), John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811), Aneurin Bevan (1897), Joseph Cook (1860), Michael Foot (1913), and Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860). After him are Cherie Blair (1954), Margaret Beckett (1943), Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (1951), Owain Gwynedd (1100), Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (1705), and Hugh Gaitskell (1906).

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