1927 - 2017
Simone Veil (French: [simɔn vɛj] (listen); née Jacob; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate and stateswoman who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. As health minister, she is best remembered for advancing women’s legal rights in France, in particular for the 1975 law that legalized abortion, today known as Loi Veil. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simone Veil has received more than 714,085 page views. Her biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Simone Veil is the 2,356th most popular politician (down from 1,849th in 2019), the 815th most popular biography from France (down from 682nd in 2019) and the 184th most popular French Politician.
Simone Veil was a French politician and lawyer. She was the first woman to serve as Minister of Health in France. She is most famous for the 1975 law legalizing abortion in France.
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Among politicians, Simone Veil ranks 2,356 out of 15,710. Before her are Kim Koo, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Afonso VI of Portugal, Fumimaro Konoe, Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, and Benazir Bhutto. After her are Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Berengar II of Italy, Robert I, Duke of Parma, Birger Jarl, and Louis I, Duke of Anjou.
1876 - 1949
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 2,350
1718 - 1744
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 2,351
1643 - 1683
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 2,352
1891 - 1945
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 2,353
1872 - 1925
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 2,354
1953 - 2007
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 2,355
1927 - 2017
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 2,356
1856 - 1921
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 2,357
1771 - 1843
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 2,358
900 - 966
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 2,359
1848 - 1907
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 2,360
1210 - 1266
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 2,361
1339 - 1384
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 2,362
Among people born in 1927, Simone Veil ranks 34. Before her are Martin Lewis Perl, Don Shirley, Juliette Gréco, Emmanuelle Riva, Angelo Sodano, and Marshall Warren Nirenberg. After her are K. Alex Müller, Hubert de Givenchy, Jerry Stiller, Hugo Pratt, Gilbert Bécaud, and Daniel Keyes. Among people deceased in 2017, Simone Veil ranks 34. Before her are Mário Soares, Kenneth Arrow, Roman Herzog, Emmanuelle Riva, Malcolm Young, and Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov. After her are Hans Georg Dehmelt, Slobodan Praljak, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, Peter L. Berger, Lotfi A. Zadeh, and Liliane Bettencourt.
1927 - 2014
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 28
1927 - 2013
HPI: 72.49
Rank: 29
1927 - 2020
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 30
1927 - 2017
HPI: 72.33
Rank: 31
1927 - Present
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 32
1927 - 2010
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 33
1927 - 2017
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 34
1927 - Present
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 35
1927 - 2018
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 36
1927 - 2020
HPI: 71.72
Rank: 37
1927 - 1995
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 38
1927 - 2001
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 39
1927 - 2014
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 40
1924 - 2017
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 28
1921 - 2017
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 29
1934 - 2017
HPI: 72.56
Rank: 30
1927 - 2017
HPI: 72.33
Rank: 31
1953 - 2017
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 32
1928 - 2017
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 33
1927 - 2017
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 34
1922 - 2017
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 35
1945 - 2017
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 36
1930 - 2017
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 37
1929 - 2017
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 38
1921 - 2017
HPI: 71.50
Rank: 39
1922 - 2017
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 40
Among people born in France, Simone Veil ranks 815 out of 5,234. Before her are Georges Dumézil (1898), Louis Barthou (1862), Bertrada of Laon (720), Jacques Charles (1763), Edmond James de Rothschild (1845), and Nadia Boulanger (1887). After her are Max Jacob (1876), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), Jacques Delors (1925), Sebastian Brant (1458), Bertrand du Guesclin (1320), and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1974).
1898 - 1986
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 809
1862 - 1934
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 810
720 - 783
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 811
1763 - 1823
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 812
1845 - 1934
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 813
1887 - 1979
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 814
1927 - 2017
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 815
1876 - 1944
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 816
1947 - Present
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 817
1925 - Present
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 818
1458 - 1521
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 819
1320 - 1380
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 820
1974 - Present
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 821
Among politicians born in France, Simone Veil ranks 184. Before her are Inessa Armand (1874), Louis, Duke of Orléans (1703), Vincent Auriol (1884), Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736), Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279), and Louis Barthou (1862). After her are Louis I, Duke of Anjou (1339), Germaine of Foix (1488), Léon Bourgeois (1851), Joseph Babinski (1857), Theobald I of Navarre (1201), and Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (1627).
1874 - 1920
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 178
1703 - 1752
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 179
1884 - 1966
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 180
1736 - 1793
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 181
1279 - 1341
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 182
1862 - 1934
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 183
1927 - 2017
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 184
1339 - 1384
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 185
1488 - 1536
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 186
1851 - 1925
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 187
1857 - 1932
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 188
1201 - 1253
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 189
1627 - 1693
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 190