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Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

1563 - 1612

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Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, (1 June 1563 – 24 May 1612) was an English statesman noted for his direction of the government during the Union of the Crowns, as Tudor England gave way to Stuart rule (1603). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury has received more than 1,400,004 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury is the 9,939th most popular politician (up from 10,415th in 2019), the 2,030th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,242nd in 2019) and the 312th most popular British Politician.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury ranks 9,939 out of 19,576. Before him are Alof de Wignacourt, Walter V, Count of Brienne, Margrethe Vestager, Álvaro Noboa, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, and Eddie Fenech Adami. After him are Kujō Yoritsugu, Nicolaes Witsen, Nasser Al-Sabah, Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti, and Carl, Duke of Württemberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1563, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury ranks 16. Before him are Hosokawa Gracia, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst, Hosokawa Tadaoki, Katō Yoshiaki, and Franciscus Gomarus. After him are Enno III, Count of East Frisia, Heo Nanseolheon, and Michael Drayton. Among people deceased in 1612, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury ranks 21. Before him are Ernest of Bavaria, False Dmitry III, Piotr Skarga, Leonardo Donato, Giovanni de' Bardi, and John Smyth. After him are Arima Harunobu, Konoe Sakihisa, Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow, Nicholas Rémy, Giulio Cesare Polerio, and Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury ranks 2,030 out of 8,785. Before him are Lesley Manville (1956), Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1310), Sadiq Khan (1970), Perry Anderson (1938), John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886), and John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836). After him are Robert Torrens (1780), Tony Judt (1948), John Burgoyne (1722), Claude Auchinleck (1884), Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots (1404), and Robert Donat (1905).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury ranks 312. Before him are Cynewulf of Wessex (750), Randolph Churchill (1911), Joe Davis (1901), Æthelbald of Mercia (700), Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847), and Sadiq Khan (1970). After him are Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots (1404), Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355), John Profumo (1915), Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883), Edward Balliol (1283), and Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1182).

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