NOBLEMAN

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

1921 - 2021

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021), was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. As such, he was the consort of the British monarch from his wife's accession on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal consort in history. Philip was born in Greece into the Greek and Danish royal families; his family was exiled from the country when he was eighteen months old. After being educated in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, he joined the Royal Navy in 1939, when he was 18 years old. In July 1939, Philip began corresponding with the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth, the elder daughter and heir presumptive of King George VI. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh has received more than 87,666,149 page views. His biography is available in 111 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 104 in 2019). Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the 9th most popular nobleman (down from 7th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Greece (down from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Greek Nobleman.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is most famous for being the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.

Memorability Metrics

  • 88M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 83.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 111

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ranks 9 out of 1,415. Before him are Catherine the Great, Ramesses II, Henry VIII of England, Ragnar Lodbrok, Margrethe II of Denmark, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. After him are Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Akihito, Lucrezia Borgia, William the Conqueror, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ranks 1. After him are Alexander Dubček, Andrei Sakharov, Michael I of Romania, Charles Bronson, Stanisław Lem, Suharto, Yves Montand, Astor Piazzolla, Giulietta Masina, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, and John Rawls. Among people deceased in 2021, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ranks 1. After him are Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michael Collins, Gerd Müller, Albert Bandura, Mikis Theodorakis, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, F. W. de Klerk, Chun Doo-hwan, Christopher Plummer, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Charlie Watts.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ranks 22 out of 1,024. Before him are Euripides (-480), Aristophanes (-448), Plutarch (46), Aeschylus (-525), Sappho (-630), and Philip II of Macedon (-382). After him are Protagoras (-486), Thucydides (-460), Bayezid II (1447), Spartacus (-109), Phidias (-490), and Hayreddin Barbarossa (1478).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Greece

Among noblemen born in Greece, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ranks 1. After him are Queen Sofía of Spain (1938), Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (1914), Memnon of Rhodes (-380), Arsinoe I (-305), Leotychidas (-540), and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (1906).

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