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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 1,320,327 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury is the 10,443rd most popular politician (down from 9,105th in 2019), the 2,248th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,019th in 2019) and the 348th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury ranks 10,443 out of 15,577Before him are Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe, Walter de Silva, Jaime Lerner, Harri Holkeri, Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, and Andranik Margaryan. After him are Kiran Bedi, King Lie of Zhou, Gebhard, Duke of Lorraine, Albert III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg, Odo I, Count of Orléans, and Isaac Komnenos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1563, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury ranks 16Before him are Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Hosokawa Gracia, Hosokawa Tadaoki, Franciscus Gomarus, and Heo Nanseolheon. After him are Katō Yoshiaki and Michael Drayton. Among people deceased in 1612, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury ranks 23Before him are False Dmitry III, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Leonardo Donato, Charles, Count of Soissons, Giovanni de' Bardi, and Ernest of Bavaria. After him are Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow, Konoe Sakihisa, Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, Giulio Cesare Polerio, Juan de la Cueva, and John Gerard.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury ranks 2,248 out of 7,765Before him are Anthony Quayle (1913), Llywelyn the Great (1173), George Mary Searle (1839), Claude Rains (1889), Dionysios Kasdaglis (1872), and Anthony Horowitz (1955). After him are Michael Carrick (1981), Æthelbald of Mercia (null), Frank Bridge (1879), Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903), Rio Ferdinand (1978), and Asma al-Assad (1975).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury ranks 348Before him are Phil Taylor (1960), Prasutagus (50), Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730), Prince William of Gloucester (1941), Llywelyn the Great (1173), and Dionysios Kasdaglis (1872). After him are Æthelbald of Mercia (null), Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903), Asma al-Assad (1975), Cuthred of Wessex (750), Cædwalla of Wessex (659), and Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757).