1902 - 2003
James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003. Before his 48 years as a senator, he served as the 103rd governor of South Carolina from 1947 to 1951. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Strom Thurmond has received more than 7,026,322 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Strom Thurmond is the 11,694th most popular politician (up from 12,069th in 2019), the 4,753rd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,876th in 2019) and the 302nd most popular American Politician.
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Among politicians, Strom Thurmond ranks 11,694 out of 15,577. Before him are Mariamne, Francesco Erizzo, Alexander Protopopov, Ariarathes III of Cappadocia, Mohamed Sherif Pasha, and Alexander Lebedev. After him are Dawit II, José López Rega, Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, Lucius Caecilius Metellus, Giovanni Lanza, and Mohamed Bazoum.
100 BC - 60 BC
HPI: 49.86
Rank: 11,688
1566 - 1646
HPI: 49.86
Rank: 11,689
1866 - 1918
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 11,690
300 BC - 220 BC
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 11,691
1826 - 1887
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 11,692
1959 - Present
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 11,693
1902 - 2003
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 11,694
1496 - 1540
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 11,695
1916 - 1989
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 11,696
1672 - 1723
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 11,697
290 BC - 221 BC
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 11,698
1810 - 1882
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 11,699
1960 - Present
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 11,700
Among people born in 1902, Strom Thurmond ranks 176. Before him are Herma Szabo, Vissarion Shebalin, Sergei Khudyakov, Vasil Mzhavanadze, Juan Evaristo, and Bobby Jones. After him are Andrés Mazali, George Kingsley Zipf, Son House, Ilmari Salminen, André Patry, and Georgette Heyer. Among people deceased in 2003, Strom Thurmond ranks 173. Before him are Gregory Hines, Garrett Hardin, Bigode, Henryk Jabłoński, Françoise Giroud, and Isao Iwabuchi. After him are Alexander Kemurdzhian, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Art Carney, Timothy Treadwell, Aleksandar Tišma, and Veikko Hakulinen.
1902 - 1986
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 170
1902 - 1963
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 171
1902 - 1950
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 172
1902 - 1988
HPI: 50.11
Rank: 173
1902 - 1978
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 174
1902 - 1971
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 175
1902 - 2003
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 176
1902 - 1975
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 177
1902 - 1950
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 178
1902 - 1988
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 179
1902 - 1986
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 180
1902 - 1960
HPI: 49.66
Rank: 181
1902 - 1974
HPI: 49.61
Rank: 182
1946 - 2003
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 167
1915 - 2003
HPI: 50.00
Rank: 168
1922 - 2003
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 169
1909 - 2003
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 170
1916 - 2003
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 171
1933 - 2003
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 172
1902 - 2003
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 173
1921 - 2003
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 174
1907 - 2003
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 175
1918 - 2003
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 176
1957 - 2003
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 177
1924 - 2003
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 178
1925 - 2003
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 179
Among people born in United States, Strom Thurmond ranks 4,753 out of 18,182. Before him are David Chase (1945), Richard Montague (1930), Art Farmer (1928), Stephen Collins (1947), Joe Haldeman (1943), and Octavia E. Butler (1947). After him are Broderick Crawford (1911), Martin Donovan (1957), Ram Dass (1931), Kevin Schwantz (1964), Fred Gwynne (1926), and Gene Wolfe (1931).
1945 - Present
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 4,747
1930 - 1971
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 4,748
1928 - 1999
HPI: 49.86
Rank: 4,749
1947 - Present
HPI: 49.86
Rank: 4,750
1943 - Present
HPI: 49.86
Rank: 4,751
1947 - 2006
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 4,752
1902 - 2003
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 4,753
1911 - 1986
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 4,754
1957 - Present
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 4,755
1931 - 2019
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 4,756
1964 - Present
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 4,757
1926 - 1993
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 4,758
1931 - 2019
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 4,759
Among politicians born in United States, Strom Thurmond ranks 302. Before him are Winfield Scott Hancock (1824), George Andrew Reisner (1867), Janet Jagan (1920), Grace Coolidge (1879), Edmund Muskie (1914), and W. Averell Harriman (1891). After him are Edmund Randolph (1753), John Hay (1838), Dianne Feinstein (1933), Patrick Leahy (1940), Angelica Singleton Van Buren (1818), and Vince Lombardi (1913).
1824 - 1886
HPI: 49.99
Rank: 296
1867 - 1942
HPI: 49.96
Rank: 297
1920 - 2009
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 298
1879 - 1957
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 299
1914 - 1996
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 300
1891 - 1986
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 301
1902 - 2003
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 302
1753 - 1813
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 303
1838 - 1905
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 304
1933 - 2023
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 305
1940 - Present
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 306
1818 - 1877
HPI: 49.72
Rank: 307
1913 - 1970
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 308