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Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor

1879 - 1964

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Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945. Astor was born in Danville, Virginia and raised in Greenwood, Virginia. Her first marriage, to socialite Robert Gould Shaw II, was unhappy and ended in divorce. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor has received more than 1,640,927 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor is the 12,958th most popular politician (down from 11,508th in 2019), the 5,251st most popular biography from United States (down from 4,617th in 2019) and the 338th most popular American Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor has had the most page views in the with 171,064 views, followed by Russian (8,251), and German (7,212). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Chinese (182.26%), Indonesian (174.77%), and Galician (116.59%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor ranks 12,958 out of 19,576. Before her are Ayna Sultanova, Nikolay Girs, Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe, Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, Józef Bilczewski, and Cosmo Duff-Gordon. After her are Rudolf Augstein, Júlio Prestes, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Józef Oleksy, Jaafar Al-Askari, and Ruslan Khomchak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor ranks 146. Before her are Martin Mutschmann, Hamilton Harty, Urban Gad, Jin Shuren, Walery Sławek, and Otto Wahle. After her are René Pottier, Benjamin Christensen, Osman Aqçoqraqlı, Petros Persakis, Adolf Wiklund, and Wladimir Aïtoff. Among people deceased in 1964, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor ranks 118. Before her are Brendan Behan, Amrit Kaur, Jean-Baptiste Janssens, Eugen Varga, Maurice Farman, and Moa Martinson. After her are Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, Ronald Fairbairn, Ólafur Thors, Anita Malfatti, Alfred Blalock, and Jim Reeves.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor ranks 5,251 out of 20,380. Before her are Lloyd Alexander (1924), Louis Jordan (1908), Wes Unseld (1946), Rosalind E. Krauss (1941), Jack Kramer (1921), and Mark Rolston (1956). After her are Ann Dowd (1956), Gordon Douglas (1907), Pat McCormick (1930), Syd Field (1935), Zachary Quinto (1977), and Elbert Hubbard (1856).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor ranks 338. Before her are Brent Scowcroft (1925), Andrew Mellon (1855), Pat Buchanan (1938), Stephen Allen Benson (1816), Harry Cohn (1891), and Stephen A. Douglas (1813). After her are Lyndon LaRouche (1922), Jay Garner (1938), John Warner (1927), Spotted Elk (1826), Alger Hiss (1904), and Ed Koch (1924).

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