1793 - 1863
Samuel Houston ( , HEW-stən; March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. He served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas and was one of the first two individuals to represent Texas in the United States Senate. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sam Houston has received more than 5,091,754 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Sam Houston is the 6,016th most popular politician (down from 5,297th in 2019), the 2,045th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,845th in 2019) and the 126th most popular American Politician.
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Among politicians, Sam Houston ranks 6,016 out of 15,577. Before him are Magnus II of Norway, Johannes Steinhoff, Radama II, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Gaius Duilius, and Wolfgang Kapp. After him are Charles I, Lord of Monaco, Gundemar, Miroslav Filipović, Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin, Christian Michelsen, and Aurelius of Asturias.
1048 - 1069
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 6,010
1913 - 1994
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 6,011
1829 - 1863
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 6,012
1516 - 1592
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 6,013
300 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 6,014
1858 - 1922
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 6,015
1793 - 1863
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 6,016
1300 - 1357
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 6,017
600 - 612
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 6,018
1915 - 1946
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 6,019
1673 - 1726
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 6,020
1857 - 1925
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 6,021
740 - 774
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 6,022
Among people born in 1793, Sam Houston ranks 15. Before him are Josef Ressel, Radama I, Michel Chasles, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Dost Mohammad Khan, and Charles Paul de Kock. After him are Thomas Addison, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, Princess Caroline of Denmark, Karl Lachmann, Philipp Veit, and Baldomero Espartero. Among people deceased in 1863, Sam Houston ranks 18. Before him are Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Natalia Pushkina, Dost Mohammad Khan, Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, and Radama II. After him are Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony, Mangas Coloradas, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Auguste Bravais, and Peter Andreas Munch.
1793 - 1857
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 9
1793 - 1828
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 10
1793 - 1880
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 11
1793 - 1865
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 12
1793 - 1863
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 13
1793 - 1871
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 14
1793 - 1863
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 15
1793 - 1860
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 16
1793 - 1853
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 17
1793 - 1881
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 18
1793 - 1851
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 19
1793 - 1877
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 20
1793 - 1879
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 21
1813 - 1863
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 12
1784 - 1863
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 13
1812 - 1863
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 14
1793 - 1863
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 15
1830 - 1863
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 16
1829 - 1863
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 17
1793 - 1863
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 18
1782 - 1863
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 19
1782 - 1863
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 20
1792 - 1863
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 21
1794 - 1863
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 22
1811 - 1863
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 23
1810 - 1863
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 24
Among people born in United States, Sam Houston ranks 2,045 out of 18,182. Before him are Joseph Greenberg (1915), Louise Brooks (1906), John Barrymore (1882), Grace Slick (1939), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), and Linda Gray (1940). After him are Christina Aguilera (1980), Bob Fosse (1927), Paul Ryan (1970), Gigi Hadid (1995), Jean Arthur (1900), and John Frankenheimer (1930).
1915 - 2001
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 2,039
1906 - 1985
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 2,040
1882 - 1942
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 2,041
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 2,042
1858 - 1922
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 2,043
1940 - Present
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 2,044
1793 - 1863
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 2,045
1980 - Present
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 2,046
1927 - 1987
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 2,047
1970 - Present
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 2,048
1995 - Present
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 2,049
1900 - 1991
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 2,050
1930 - 2002
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 2,051
Among politicians born in United States, Sam Houston ranks 126. Before him are Alben W. Barkley (1877), Hubert Humphrey (1911), Spiro Agnew (1918), Ben Carson (1951), Bob Dole (1923), and Wolfgang Kapp (1858). After him are Paul Ryan (1970), Jack Kemp (1935), Paul Wolfowitz (1943), Leland Stanford (1824), Curtis LeMay (1906), and Ron Paul (1935).
1877 - 1956
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 120
1911 - 1978
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 121
1918 - 1996
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 122
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 123
1923 - 2021
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 124
1858 - 1922
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 125
1793 - 1863
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 126
1970 - Present
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 127
1935 - 2009
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 128
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 129
1824 - 1893
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 130
1906 - 1990
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 131
1935 - Present
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 132