1854 - 1943
Elizabeth Ruth Naomi Belville (5 March 1854 – 7 December 1943), also known as the Greenwich Time Lady, was a businesswoman from London. She, her mother Maria Elizabeth, and her father John Henry, sold people the time. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruth Belville has received more than 230,765 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ruth Belville is the 10,124th most popular politician (down from 6,274th in 2019), the 2,170th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,359th in 2019) and the 336th most popular British Politician.
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Among politicians, Ruth Belville ranks 10,124 out of 15,577. Before her are John of Nikiû, Kokhir Rasulzoda, Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia, Mohammed bin Thani, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, and Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais. After her are Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, Margaret of Thuringia, Felix Lichnowsky, Rekhmire, Walid Muallem, and Garibald.
650 - Present
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 10,118
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 10,119
1877 - 1943
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 10,120
1788 - 1878
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 10,121
1751 - 1827
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 10,122
1960 - Present
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 10,123
1854 - 1943
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 10,124
100 BC - 100 BC
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 10,125
1449 - 1501
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 10,126
1814 - 1848
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 10,127
1500 BC - 1500 BC
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 10,128
1941 - 2020
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 10,129
665 - 671
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 10,130
Among people born in 1854, Ruth Belville ranks 63. Before her are Isidor Gunsberg, Charles Angrand, Adolf Erman, Franz Rohr von Denta, Ottmar Mergenthaler, and Konstantin Jireček. After her are Christiaan de Wet, Yehuda Pen, Benjamin Tucker, Vasil Radoslavov, José Canalejas, and Georges Vacher de Lapouge. Among people deceased in 1943, Ruth Belville ranks 103. Before her are Kostis Palamas, Doris Miller, Mihailo Petrović, Ricardo Viñes, Shaul Tchernichovsky, and Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia. After her are Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, Fats Waller, Bernhard Lichtenberg, Johann Niemann, and Alojs Andritzki.
1854 - 1930
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 57
1854 - 1926
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 58
1854 - 1937
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 59
1854 - 1927
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 60
1854 - 1899
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 61
1854 - 1918
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 62
1854 - 1943
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 63
1854 - 1922
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 64
1854 - 1937
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 65
1854 - 1939
HPI: 51.79
Rank: 66
1854 - 1929
HPI: 51.77
Rank: 67
1854 - 1912
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 68
1854 - 1936
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 69
1859 - 1943
HPI: 52.41
Rank: 97
1919 - 1943
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 98
1868 - 1943
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 99
1875 - 1943
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 100
1875 - 1943
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 101
1877 - 1943
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 102
1854 - 1943
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 103
1874 - 1943
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 104
1878 - 1943
HPI: 51.83
Rank: 105
1904 - 1943
HPI: 51.77
Rank: 106
1875 - 1943
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 107
1913 - 1943
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 108
1914 - 1943
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 109
Among people born in United Kingdom, Ruth Belville ranks 2,170 out of 7,765. Before her are Roger Bannister (1929), Roy Harrod (1900), Ken Annakin (1914), Jamie Dornan (1982), John Glen (1932), and Nevil Maskelyne (1732). After her are Shane MacGowan (1957), Christine McVie (1943), Reginald Doherty (1872), William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768), Joseph Larmor (1857), and Norman McLaren (1914).
1929 - 2018
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 2,164
1900 - 1978
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 2,165
1914 - 2009
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 2,166
1982 - Present
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 2,167
1932 - Present
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 2,168
1732 - 1811
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 2,169
1854 - 1943
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 2,170
1957 - 2023
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 2,171
1943 - 2022
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 2,172
1872 - 1910
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 2,173
1768 - 1854
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 2,174
1857 - 1942
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 2,175
1914 - 1987
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 2,176
Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Ruth Belville ranks 336. Before her are John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln (1462), Eadgifu of Wessex (null), Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1182), Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1517), Andrew Moray (1265), and F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782). After her are William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768), Ian Khama (1953), Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406), David Trimble (1944), John Owen (1616), and Phil Taylor (1960).
1462 - 1487
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 330
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 331
1182 - 1241
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 332
1517 - 1554
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 333
1265 - 1297
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 334
1782 - 1859
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 335
1854 - 1943
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 336
1768 - 1854
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 337
1953 - Present
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 338
1406 - 1455
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 339
1944 - 2022
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 340
1616 - 1683
HPI: 51.77
Rank: 341
1960 - Present
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 342