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Roy Jenkins

1920 - 2003

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Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, (11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003) was a British politician and writer who served as the sixth President of the European Commission from 1977 to 1981. At various times a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and a peer for the Liberal Democrats, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary under the Wilson and Callaghan Governments. The son of Arthur Jenkins, a coal-miner and Labour MP, Jenkins was educated at the University of Oxford and served as an intelligence officer during the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roy Jenkins has received more than 1,162,524 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Roy Jenkins is the 14,440th most popular politician (down from 13,635th in 2019), the 3,552nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,524th in 2019) and the 476th most popular British Politician.

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  • 47.93

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Roy Jenkins ranks 14,440 out of 19,576. Before him are Samuel Dexter, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Tommy Burns, Lothar Metz, Giuseppe Lepori, and Ernst Wetter. After him are Yacouba Isaac Zida, Yousaf Raza Gillani, Jean-Jacques Willmar, Abdelmalek Benhabyles, Oscar Torp, and Daniel Scioli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Roy Jenkins ranks 307. Before him are William Tenn, Maxi Herber, Ruth Maier, Richard Bong, George Herbig, and Bai Yang. After him are Mary Boyce, Irving Kristol, Raisa Aronova, William Colby, Ted Fujita, and Vincentas Sladkevičius. Among people deceased in 2003, Roy Jenkins ranks 237. Before him are Buddy Ebsen, Lana Clarkson, Charles P. Kindleberger, Naftali Temu, Alfred Aston, and Gunnar Johansson. After him are Béla Kárpáti, José Juncosa, Stu Hart, Ignacio Velasco, Horace W. Babcock, and Mike Larrabee.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roy Jenkins ranks 3,552 out of 8,785. Before him are David Morrissey (1964), Peter Withe (1951), David Wilkie (1785), William Huskisson (1770), John Richardson (1787), and Marmaduke Tunstall (1743). After him are Catherine McCormack (1972), Gary Numan (1958), Thomas Morley (1557), Jonny Greenwood (1971), Hilda of Whitby (614), and Thomas Walker Arnold (1864).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Roy Jenkins ranks 476. Before him are John Julius Norwich (1929), Ken Livingstone (1945), Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858), Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), Hywel Dda (880), and William Huskisson (1770). After him are Stafford Cripps (1889), Jack Straw (1946), Robin Cook (1946), John Taylor (1808), John Smith (1938), and William Davies Evans (1790).

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