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Sigismund II Augustus

1520 - 1572

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Sigismund II Augustus (Polish: Zygmunt II August, Lithuanian: Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the last male monarch from the Jagiellonian dynasty. Sigismund was elder of two sons of Italian-born Bona Sforza and Sigismund the Old, and the only one to survived infancy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sigismund II Augustus has received more than 749,298 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Sigismund II Augustus is the 719th most popular politician (up from 815th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 43rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Politician.

Sigismund II Augustus was the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania. He was also the last Jagiellonian monarch. Sigismund was a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece.

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  • 750k

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  • 75.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sigismund II Augustus ranks 719 out of 19,576. Before him are Leo III the Isaurian, John Zápolya, Stefan Dušan, Yitzhak Shamir, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just. After him are Pedro I of Brazil, Peter I of Serbia, Ion Antonescu, Jair Bolsonaro, Justin Trudeau, and Edvard Beneš.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1520, Sigismund II Augustus ranks 3. Before him are Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and Pope Sixtus V. After him are Vincenzo Galilei, Barbara Radziwiłł, Koca Sinan Pasha, Christophe Plantin, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Matthias Flacius, Alessandro Farnese, Thoinot Arbeau, and Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine. Among people deceased in 1572, Sigismund II Augustus ranks 2. Before him is Pope Pius V. After him are Bronzino, Jeanne d'Albret, Túpac Amaru, Şah Sultan, Gaspard II de Coligny, John Knox, Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Isaac Luria, Longqing Emperor, and Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Sigismund II Augustus ranks 33 out of 1,694. Before him are Eric of Pomerania (1381), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), and Yitzhak Shamir (1915). After him are Günther von Kluge (1882), Andrzej Wajda (1926), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Kurt Lewin (1890), and Christian Wolff (1679).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Sigismund II Augustus ranks 7. Before him are David Ben-Gurion (1886), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), Lech Kaczyński (1949), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), and Yitzhak Shamir (1915). After him are Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Casimir III the Great (1310), Donald Tusk (1957), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Sigismund I the Old (1467), and Bolesław I the Brave (967).

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