1905 - 1919
Prince John (John Charles Francis; 12 July 1905 – 18 January 1919) was the fifth son and youngest of the six children of King George V and Queen Mary. At the time of his birth, his father was heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, King Edward VII. In 1910, the Prince of Wales succeeded to the throne upon Edward VII's death and Prince John became fifth in the line of succession to the British throne. In 1909, John was discovered to have epilepsy. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prince John of the United Kingdom has received more than 4,012,590 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Prince John of the United Kingdom is the 216th most popular nobleman (up from 224th in 2019), the 806th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 899th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Nobleman.
Prince John is most famous for being the youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary and for being the youngest brother of King Edward VIII and King George VI.
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Among noblemen, Prince John of the United Kingdom ranks 216 out of 842. Before him are Tupou VI, Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, Archduke John of Austria, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, William, Duke of Austria, and Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. After him are Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden.
1959 - Present
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 210
1824 - 1890
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 211
1782 - 1859
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 212
1719 - 1772
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 213
1370 - 1406
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 214
1533 - 1597
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 215
1905 - 1919
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 216
1854 - 1920
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 217
1759 - 1818
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 218
1781 - 1860
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 219
1968 - Present
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 220
1982 - Present
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 221
1977 - Present
HPI: 60.65
Rank: 222
Among people born in 1905, Prince John of the United Kingdom ranks 40. Before him are Nevill Francis Mott, Ulf von Euler, George H. Hitchings, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Ivan Serov, and Fred Trump. After him are Harry Harlow, Otto Preminger, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Albert Pierrepoint, Takashi Shimura, and Carl Gustav Hempel. Among people deceased in 1919, Prince John of the United Kingdom ranks 26. Before him are Habibullah Khan, Ismail Qemali, L. Frank Baum, Madam C. J. Walker, Kurt Eisner, and Johannes Rydberg. After him are Leonid Andreyev, Henry Gantt, Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans, Guido von List, and Georg von Hertling.
1905 - 1996
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 34
1905 - 1983
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 35
1905 - 1998
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 36
1905 - 1981
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 37
1905 - 1990
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 38
1905 - 1999
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 39
1905 - 1919
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 40
1905 - 1981
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 41
1905 - 1986
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 42
1905 - 1993
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 43
1905 - 1992
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 44
1905 - 1982
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 45
1905 - 1997
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 46
1872 - 1919
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 20
1844 - 1919
HPI: 62.37
Rank: 21
1856 - 1919
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 22
1867 - 1919
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 23
1867 - 1919
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 24
1854 - 1919
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 25
1905 - 1919
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 26
1871 - 1919
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 27
1861 - 1919
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 28
1880 - 1919
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 29
1848 - 1919
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 30
1848 - 1919
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 31
1843 - 1919
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 32
Among people born in United Kingdom, Prince John of the United Kingdom ranks 806 out of 7,765. Before him are Wentworth Miller (1972), Edgar F. Codd (1923), Rob Roy MacGregor (1671), Francis Hutcheson (1694), David McCallum (1933), and Oliver Smithies (1925). After him are Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Edward Burne-Jones (1833), Robert FitzRoy (1805), William Bateson (1861), George Porter (1920), and James Hadley Chase (1906).
1972 - Present
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 800
1923 - 2003
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 801
1671 - 1734
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 802
1694 - 1746
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 803
1933 - Present
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 804
1925 - 2017
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 805
1905 - 1919
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 806
1917 - 1985
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 807
1833 - 1898
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 808
1805 - 1865
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 809
1861 - 1926
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 810
1920 - 2002
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 811
1906 - 1985
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 812
Among noblemen born in United Kingdom, Prince John of the United Kingdom ranks 25. Before him are Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1960), Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882), Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (1751), Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (1964), Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864), and Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (1473). After him are Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (1982), Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime (1849), Isabella of England (1214), Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (1480), Prince Michael of Kent (1942), and John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389).
1960 - Present
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 19
1882 - 1920
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 20
1751 - 1775
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 21
1964 - Present
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 22
1864 - 1892
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 23
1473 - 1484
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 24
1905 - 1919
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 25
1982 - Present
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 26
1849 - 1936
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 27
1214 - 1241
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 28
1480 - 1538
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 29
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.26
Rank: 30
1389 - 1435
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 31