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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

1921 - Today

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021), was a member of the British royal family as the husband of Elizabeth II. Philip was born in Greece, into the Greek and Danish royal families, but his family was exiled from the country when he was eighteen months old. After being educated in France, Germany and the UK, he joined the Royal Navy in 1939, aged 18. From July 1939, he began corresponding with the thirteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth, whom he had first met in 1934. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh has received more than 66,007,703 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the 7th most popular nobleman (up from 8th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Greece (up from 22nd in 2019) and the most popular Greek Nobleman.

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

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  • 85.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 72

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ranks 7 out of 843. Before him are Elizabeth II, Ragnar Lodbrok, Marie Antoinette, Ramesses II, Henry VIII of England, and Catherine the Great. After him are Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Margrethe II of Denmark, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Lucrezia Borgia, Akihito, and Rollo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ranks 1. After him are Charles Bronson, Alexander Dubček, Andrei Sakharov, John Rawls, Stanisław Lem, Astor Piazzolla, Suharto, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Michael I of Romania, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, and Yves Montand.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ranks 13 out of 855. Before him are Pythagoras (-570), Spartacus (-109), Sophocles (-497), Epicurus (-341), Pericles (-494), and Democritus (-460). After him are El Greco (1541), Philip II of Macedon (-382), Aristophanes (-448), Plutarch (46), Euripides (-480), and Kösem Sultan (1590).

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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), Memnon of Rhodes (-380), Leotychidas (-540), Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (1914), Arsinoe I (-305), and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (1906).

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