49 - 69
Sporus was a young slave boy whom the Roman Emperor Nero had castrated and married as his Empress during his tour of Greece in 66–67 CE, allegedly in order for him to play the role of his wife, Poppaea Sabina, who had died the previous year. Ancient historians generally portrayed the relationship between Nero and Sporus as an "abomination"; Suetonius places his account of the Nero-Sporus relationship in his "scandalous accounts of Nero's sexual aberrations," between his raping a Vestal Virgin and committing incest with his mother. Some think Nero used his marriage to Sporus to assuage the guilt he felt for allegedly kicking his pregnant wife Poppaea to death. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sporus has received more than 2,311,980 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Sporus is the 7,399th most popular politician.
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Among politicians, Sporus ranks 7,399 out of 15,577. Before him are Histiaeus, Dries van Agt, Oqil Oqilov, Zhu of Xia, Anna Komnene Angelina, and Claudius Silvanus. After him are Aman Andom, Idris II of Morocco, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Aristobulus III of Judea, and Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken.
550 BC - 493 BC
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 7,393
1931 - 2024
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 7,394
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 7,395
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 7,396
1176 - 1212
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 7,397
400 - 355
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 7,398
49 - 69
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 7,399
1924 - 1974
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 7,400
791 - 828
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 7,401
1703 - 1732
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 7,402
1938 - 1996
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 7,403
53 BC - 36 BC
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 7,404
1670 - 1731
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 7,405
Among people born in 49, Sporus ranks 1. Among people deceased in 69, Sporus ranks 6. Before him are Galba, Vitellius, Otho, James, brother of Jesus, and Tigellinus. After him are Cartimandua, Evodius, Epaphroditus, and Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi Licinianus.
3 BC - 69
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 1
15 - 69
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 2
32 - 69
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 3
20 BC - 69
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 4
10 - 69
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 5
49 - 69
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 6
50 - 69
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 7
50 - 69
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 8
100 - 69
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 9
38 - 69
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 10