Politician

Nikita Khrushchev

1950–1964 First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

1894 - 1971

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Nikita Khrushchev

His biography is available in 126 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 123 in 2024). Nikita Khrushchev is the 117th most popular politician (down from 69th in 2024), the 15th most popular biography from Russia (down from 11th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Politician.

Nikita Khrushchev was the Soviet Premier from 1953 to 1964. He is most famous for his speech at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, where he denounced the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.

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Among Politicians

Among politicians, Nikita Khrushchev ranks 117 out of 19,576. Before him are Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, Selim II, Frederick the Great, Francisco Franco, Justinian I, and Angela Merkel. After him are Muammar Gaddafi, Harald V, Leonid Brezhnev, Nebuchadnezzar II, Basil II, and Brutus the Younger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Nikita Khrushchev ranks 2. Before him is Edward VIII. After him are Rudolf Hess, Gavrilo Princip, Aldous Huxley, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Georges Lemaître, Boris III of Bulgaria, Jean Renoir, Maximilian Kolbe, and John Ford. Among people deceased in 1971, Nikita Khrushchev ranks 2. Before him is Igor Stravinsky. After him are Coco Chanel, Lawrence Bragg, Louis Armstrong, Jim Morrison, Paul Karrer, John Boyd Orr, György Lukács, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Audie Murphy, and Giorgos Seferis.

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Edward VIII
POLITICIAN
1894 - 1972
HPI: 89.23
Rank: 1
Nikita Khrushchev
POLITICIAN
1894 - 1971
HPI: 85.59
Rank: 2
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1894 - 1987
HPI: 81.45
Rank: 3
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HPI: 80.84
Rank: 4
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Rank: 5
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1894 - 1961
HPI: 77.61
Rank: 6
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
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1894 - 1972
HPI: 77.33
Rank: 7
Georges Lemaître
PHYSICIST
1894 - 1966
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 8
Boris III of Bulgaria
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1894 - 1943
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 9
Jean Renoir
ACTOR
1894 - 1979
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 10
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Rank: 11
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