1781 - 1826
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British colonial official who served as the governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieutenant-governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824. Raffles was involved in the capture of the Indonesian island of Java from the Dutch during the Napoleonic Wars. It was returned under the Anglo–Dutch Treaty of 1814. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stamford Raffles has received more than 1,452,275 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Stamford Raffles is the 2,095th most popular politician (down from 1,913th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Jamaica and the most popular Jamaican Politician.
Stamford Raffles was a British colonial administrator who founded the city of Singapore and was a major figure in the early history of the British Empire in Southeast Asia.
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Among politicians, Stamford Raffles ranks 2,095 out of 15,577. Before him are King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Arthur Balfour, Vasily II of Moscow, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Eric V of Denmark, and Nogai Khan. After him are Gabriel Bethlen, Tiberius II Constantine, Manfred, King of Sicily, Eumenes II, Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and Cleomenes I.
325 BC - 251 BC
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 2,089
1848 - 1930
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 2,090
1415 - 1462
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 2,091
1819 - 1901
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 2,092
1249 - 1286
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 2,093
1300 - 1300
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 2,094
1781 - 1826
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 2,095
1580 - 1629
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 2,096
520 - 582
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 2,097
1232 - 1266
HPI: 64.78
Rank: 2,098
221 BC - 159 BC
HPI: 64.78
Rank: 2,099
1929 - 2020
HPI: 64.78
Rank: 2,100
600 BC - 489 BC
HPI: 64.77
Rank: 2,101
Among people born in 1781, Stamford Raffles ranks 9. Before him are Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, René Laennec, Bernard Bolzano, Siméon Denis Poisson, and Adelbert von Chamisso. After him are Anton Diabelli, Frederica of Baden, David Brewster, Achim von Arnim, William I of Württemberg, and Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Among people deceased in 1826, Stamford Raffles ranks 11. Before him are Giuseppe Piazzi, Philippe Pinel, René Laennec, John VI of Portugal, Joseph Proust, and Elizabeth Alexeievna. After him are Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Frederica of Baden, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Nikolay Karamzin, and Levin August von Bennigsen.
1781 - 1789
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 3
1781 - 1841
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 4
1781 - 1826
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 5
1781 - 1848
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 6
1781 - 1840
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 7
1781 - 1838
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 8
1781 - 1826
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 9
1781 - 1858
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 10
1781 - 1826
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 11
1781 - 1868
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 12
1781 - 1831
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 13
1781 - 1864
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 14
1781 - 1860
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 15
1746 - 1826
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 5
1745 - 1826
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 6
1781 - 1826
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 7
1767 - 1826
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 8
1754 - 1826
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 9
1779 - 1826
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 10
1781 - 1826
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 11
1755 - 1826
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 12
1797 - 1826
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 13
1781 - 1826
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 14
1770 - 1826
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 15
1766 - 1826
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 16
1745 - 1826
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 17
Among people born in Jamaica, Stamford Raffles ranks 2 out of 168. Before him are Bob Marley (1945). After him are Grace Jones (1948), Usain Bolt (1986), Peter Tosh (1944), Stuart Hall (1932), Jimmy Cliff (1948), Marcus Garvey (1887), Lee "Scratch" Perry (1936), Ben Johnson (1961), Liz Mitchell (1952), and Trevor Berbick (1954).
1945 - 1981
HPI: 84.72
Rank: 1
1781 - 1826
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 2
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 3
1986 - Present
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 4
1944 - 1987
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 5
1932 - 2014
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 6
1948 - Present
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 7
1887 - 1940
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 8
1936 - 2021
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 9
1961 - Present
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 10
1952 - Present
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 11
1954 - 2006
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 12
Among politicians born in Jamaica, Stamford Raffles ranks 1. After him are Portia Simpson-Miller (1945), Michael Manley (1924), Kenneth O. Hall (1941), Alexander Bustamante (1884), Bruce Golding (1947), Andrew Holness (1972), P. J. Patterson (1935), Hugh Shearer (1923), Howard Cooke (1915), and Norman Manley (1893).
1781 - 1826
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 1
1945 - Present
HPI: 46.36
Rank: 2
1924 - 1997
HPI: 42.67
Rank: 3
1941 - Present
HPI: 41.17
Rank: 4
1884 - 1977
HPI: 39.72
Rank: 5
1947 - Present
HPI: 39.28
Rank: 6
1972 - Present
HPI: 39.06
Rank: 7
1935 - Present
HPI: 38.97
Rank: 8
1923 - 2004
HPI: 35.31
Rank: 9
1915 - 2014
HPI: 34.50
Rank: 10
1893 - 1969
HPI: 33.85
Rank: 11