New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

POLITICIAN

Spiro Agnew

1918 - 1996

Photo of Spiro Agnew

Icon of person Spiro Agnew

Spiro Theodore Agnew (; November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second of two vice presidents to resign the position, the first being John C. Calhoun in 1832. Agnew was born in Baltimore to a Greek immigrant father and an American mother. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Spiro Agnew has received more than 8,269,013 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Spiro Agnew is the 5,795th most popular politician (down from 5,637th in 2019), the 1,980th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,954th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular American Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Spiro Agnews by language


Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Spiro Agnew ranks 5,795 out of 15,577Before him are Tokugawa Iesada, Yisrael Kristal, Noe Zhordania, Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, Emperor Konoe, and Princess Elisabeth of Savoy. After him are Tzitzak, Neferhotep I, Lucía Hiriart, Graça Machel, Américo Tomás, and Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Spiro Agnew ranks 78Before him are Gabriel Axel, Philip José Farmer, Kenichi Fukui, Humaira Begum, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, and Takashi Kasahara. After him are Choi Hong Hi, Fernando Peyroteo, Jerome Robbins, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Kevin A. Lynch, and Ben Johnson. Among people deceased in 1996, Spiro Agnew ranks 75Before him are Mieczysław Weinberg, Michel Debré, Obdulio Varela, Mary Leakey, Bob Paisley, and Greer Garson. After him are Hans Blumenberg, Zeki Müren, Saul Bass, Pavel Sudoplatov, Jack Churchill, and Ben Johnson.

Others Born in 1918

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1996

Go to all Rankings

In United States

Among people born in United States, Spiro Agnew ranks 1,980 out of 18,182Before him are Thomas Mitchell (1892), Neil Patrick Harris (1973), Susan Atkins (1948), Reinhold Niebuhr (1892), Abigail Adams (1744), and Téa Leoni (1966). After him are Roger B. Chaffee (1935), Beau Bridges (1941), Donald O'Connor (1925), Bettie Page (1923), Billy Preston (1946), and Wayne Dyer (1940).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Spiro Agnew ranks 122Before him are Bess Truman (1885), Kalākaua (1836), Pontiac (1714), John Hancock (1737), Alben W. Barkley (1877), and Hubert Humphrey (1911). After him are Ben Carson (1951), Bob Dole (1923), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), Sam Houston (1793), Paul Ryan (1970), and Jack Kemp (1935).