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Robert Menzies

1894 - 1978

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Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (20 December 1894 – 15 May 1978) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th prime minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. He held office as the leader of the United Australia Party (UAP) in his first term, and subsequently as the inaugural leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, which he was responsible for establishing and defining in policy and political outreach. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Menzies has received more than 1,734,216 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Robert Menzies is the 12,091st most popular politician (up from 12,096th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Australia (up from 124th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Australian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert Menzies ranks 12,091 out of 19,576. Before him are Galindo Garcés, Sophie Wilmès, George XI of Kartli, Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, and Tahir Yahya. After him are Fulgencio Yegros, Yossi Beilin, Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, Óscar Berger, Aníbal Pinto, and Juan Bautista Sacasa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Robert Menzies ranks 153. Before him are Christian Schad, Mirza Davud Huseynov, Giuseppe Tucci, Magda Julin, Ivan Papanin, and Olive Thomas. After him are Jean Rostand, Tibor Déry, Berdi Kerbabayev, Walter Piston, Alfred Berger, and José Bustamante y Rivero. Among people deceased in 1978, Robert Menzies ranks 129. Before him are Juan Evaristo, Carlos Riolfo, Franz Bäke, Jerzy Kuryłowicz, Bob Crane, and Artem Alikhanian. After him are Liane Augustin, Charles Best, Claude Dauphin, Gene Tunney, Jean Nicolas, and Alexander Gerschenkron.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Robert Menzies ranks 120 out of 1,143. Before him are Peter C. Doherty (1940), Ron Mueck (1958), Kevin Rudd (1957), Bill Mollison (1928), Ken McGregor (1929), and Tony Roche (1945). After him are Daevid Allen (1938), Don Bradman (1908), Mark Webber (1976), John Flanagan (1944), John Farrow (1904), and Evonne Goolagong Cawley (1951).

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Among POLITICIANS In Australia

Among politicians born in Australia, Robert Menzies ranks 10. Before him are John Howard (1939), Anthony Albanese (1963), John Curtin (1885), Edmund Barton (1849), Bob Hawke (1929), and Kevin Rudd (1957). After him are Bill Hayden (1933), Peter Scully (1963), Dawn Fraser (1937), Alfred Deakin (1856), Malcolm Fraser (1930), and Malcolm Turnbull (1954).

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