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Owen Smith

1970 - Today

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Owen Smith (born 2 May 1970) is a British lobbyist and former Labour Party politician who has been the UK government relations director for pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb since 2020. Smith was Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontypridd from 2010 to 2019.Before being elected to Parliament, Smith worked as a radio and television producer for the BBC, as a special adviser for Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy, and as a political lobbyist for Pfizer. Smith went on to serve as Shadow Welsh Secretary under Ed Miliband from 2012 until 2015, and then as Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary under Jeremy Corbyn from 2015 until he resigned in June 2016. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Owen Smith has received more than 649,721 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Owen Smith is the 19,493rd most popular politician (down from 17,740th in 2019), the 8,279th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 7,363rd in 2019) and the 770th most popular British Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 650k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 20.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Owen Smiths by language

Over the past year Owen Smith has had the most page views in the with 55,317 views, followed by Chinese (1,081), and Simple English (738). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (119.64%), Russian (33.02%), and Indonesian (18.05%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Owen Smith ranks 19,493 out of 19,576. Before him are Alyn Smith, Matt Blunt, Eric Swalwell, Martha Roby, Nicole Malliotakis, and Jason Chaffetz. After him are Erin Densham, Renan Contar, Amanda Milling, Lisa Nandy, Marti Malloy, and Rani Rampal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Owen Smith ranks 1,087. Before him are Gladys Berejiklian, Bimbo Akintola, Eoin Jess, Kunal Kohli, Brody Stevens, and Matt Blunt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Owen Smith ranks 8,279 out of 8,785. Before him are Matthew Lowton (1989), Scott Arfield (1988), MNEK (1994), Matthew Hudson-Smith (1994), Matt Langridge (1983), and Nellie McKay (1982). After him are Joe Root (1990), Ella Toone (1999), Hayden Mullins (1979), Rico Henry (1997), Matt Walls (1998), and Katie Archibald (1994).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Owen Smith ranks 770. Before him are Rebecca Long-Bailey (1979), Graham Brady (1967), Jim Murphy (1967), Nicky Morgan (1972), Stephen Crabb (1973), and Alyn Smith (1973). After him are Amanda Milling (1975), Lisa Nandy (1979), Ruth Davidson (1978), Danny Alexander (1972), Chelsie Giles (1997), and Eve Muirhead (1990).

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