1760 - 1842
Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, (20 June 1760 – 26 September 1842) was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He was styled as Viscount Wellesley until 1781, when he succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Mornington. In 1799, he was granted the Irish peerage title of Marquess Wellesley of Norragh. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley has received more than 797,104 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley is the 9,465th most popular politician (up from 10,629th in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Ireland (up from 138th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Irish Politician.
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Among politicians, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 9,465 out of 15,577. Before him are Sofoklis Venizelos, Anne of Bohemia, Rana Sanga, Gaius Licinius Stolo, Beketaten, and Edzard II, Count of East Frisia. After him are Pablo Iglesias Posse, Adolf Hühnlein, Arshak II, Eddie Fenech Adami, Sewadjkare, and Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours.
1894 - 1964
HPI: 52.83
Rank: 9,459
1290 - 1313
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 9,460
1482 - 1528
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 9,461
400 BC - 400 BC
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 9,462
1400 BC - 1400 BC
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 9,463
1532 - 1599
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 9,464
1760 - 1842
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 9,465
1850 - 1925
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 9,466
1881 - 1942
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 9,467
400 - 360
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 9,468
1934 - Present
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 9,469
1750 BC - Present
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 9,470
1739 - 1817
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 9,471
Among people born in 1760, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 21. Before him are Jean-François Le Sueur, Akbar II, Johann Peter Hebel, William Beckford, Christian Kramp, and Constantine Ypsilantis. After him are Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Olof Swartz, Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth, Georg Franz Hoffmann, Charles de Bonchamps, and Mohammad Ali Khan Zand. Among people deceased in 1842, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 22. Before him are José de Espronceda, Wojciech Żywny, Francisco Morazán, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, and Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo. After him are Thomas Arnold, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Pierre Baillot, Shah Shujah Durrani, and Robert Smith.
1760 - 1837
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 15
1760 - 1837
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 16
1760 - 1826
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 17
1760 - 1844
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 18
1760 - 1826
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 19
1760 - 1816
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 20
1760 - 1842
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 21
1760 - 1828
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 22
1760 - 1818
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 23
1760 - 1829
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 24
1760 - 1826
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 25
1760 - 1793
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 26
1760 - 1779
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 27
1808 - 1842
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 16
1756 - 1842
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 17
1792 - 1842
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 18
1784 - 1842
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 19
1788 - 1842
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 20
1764 - 1842
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 21
1760 - 1842
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 22
1795 - 1842
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 23
1766 - 1842
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 24
1786 - 1842
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 25
1771 - 1842
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 26
1785 - 1842
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 27
1757 - 1842
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 28
Among people born in Ireland, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 101 out of 501. Before him are Edward Mulhare (1923), William Brown (1777), Saint Fiacre (607), Fiona Shaw (1958), Edward Bransfield (1785), and Dymphna (700). After him are Turlough O'Carolan (1670), Kevin of Glendalough (498), John Ellis (1710), Grace O'Malley (1530), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), and Edward Bruce (1275).
1923 - 1997
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 95
1777 - 1857
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 96
607 - 668
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 97
1958 - Present
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 98
1785 - 1852
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 99
700 - 700
HPI: 52.83
Rank: 100
1760 - 1842
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 101
1670 - 1738
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 102
498 - 618
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 103
1710 - 1776
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 104
1530 - 1603
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 105
1977 - Present
HPI: 52.45
Rank: 106
1275 - 1318
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 107
Among politicians born in Ireland, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 17. Before him are Brian Cowen (1960), Brian Boru (941), Mary Robinson (1944), Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769), Eliza Lynch (1833), and Constantine III of Scotland (971). After him are Edward Bruce (1275), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751), Charles Stewart Parnell (1846), Daniel O'Connell (1775), William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737), and Arthur Griffith (1871).
1960 - Present
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 11
941 - 1014
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 12
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 13
1769 - 1822
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 14
1833 - 1886
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 15
971 - 997
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 16
1760 - 1842
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 17
1275 - 1318
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 18
1751 - 1816
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 19
1846 - 1891
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 20
1775 - 1847
HPI: 52.08
Rank: 21
1737 - 1805
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 22
1871 - 1922
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 23