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Sun Yat-sen

1866 - 1925

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Sun Yat-sen (; traditional Chinese: 孫逸仙; simplified Chinese: 孙逸仙; pinyin: Sūn Yìxiān; 12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925) was a Chinese physician, revolutionary, statesman, and political philosopher who founded the Republic of China (ROC) and its first political party, the Kuomintang (KMT). As the paramount leader of the 1911 Revolution, Sun is credited with overthrowing the Qing imperial dynasty and served as the first president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China (1912) and as the inaugural Chairman of the Kuomintang. Born to a peasant family in Guangdong, Sun was educated overseas in Hawaii and returned to China to graduate from medical school in Hong Kong. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sun Yat-sen has received more than 7,056,381 page views. His biography is available in 122 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 117 in 2019). Sun Yat-sen is the 143rd most popular politician (down from 137th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from China (up from 10th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Chinese Politician.

Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese revolutionary who led the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and became the first president of the Republic of China.

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  • 7.1M

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  • 82.68

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  • 122

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  • 8.97

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  • 4.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sun Yat-sen ranks 143 out of 19,576. Before him are Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, David Ben-Gurion, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bernie Sanders, Skanderbeg, and Bayezid II. After him are Simón Bolívar, Al Gore, Augusto Pinochet, Hatshepsut, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and Pol Pot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Sun Yat-sen ranks 2. Before him is Wassily Kandinsky. After him are Romain Rolland, George Gurdjieff, Erik Satie, H. G. Wells, Antoine Meillet, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Alfred Werner, Benedetto Croce, Giovanni Agnelli, and Aby Warburg. Among people deceased in 1925, Sun Yat-sen ranks 1. After him are Rudolf Steiner, Erik Satie, Friedrich Ebert, Alexandra of Denmark, Gottlob Frege, William Jennings Bryan, Georgy Lvov, Sergei Yesenin, Henri Fayol, Josef Breuer, and Felix Klein.

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In China

Among people born in China, Sun Yat-sen ranks 9 out of 1,610. Before him are Huang Xianfan (1899), Qin Shi Huang (-258), Karma (null), Sun Tzu (-544), Laozi (-604), and Zheng He (1387). After him are Deng Xiaoping (1904), Li Bai (701), Sima Qian (-145), 14th Dalai Lama (1935), Xi Jinping (1953), and Kublai Khan (1215).

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    Huang Xianfan

    POLITICIAN

    1899 - 1982

    HPI: 87.92

    Rank: 3

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    Qin Shi Huang

    POLITICIAN

    258 BC - 210 BC

    HPI: 87.21

    Rank: 4

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    Karma

    ATHLETE

    HPI: 85.66

    Rank: 5

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    Sun Tzu

    PHILOSOPHER

    544 BC - 496 BC

    HPI: 83.39

    Rank: 6

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    Laozi

    PHILOSOPHER

    604 BC - 600 BC

    HPI: 83.17

    Rank: 7

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    Zheng He

    EXPLORER

    1387 - 1433

    HPI: 82.94

    Rank: 8

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    Sun Yat-sen

    POLITICIAN

    1866 - 1925

    HPI: 82.68

    Rank: 9

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    Deng Xiaoping

    POLITICIAN

    1904 - 1997

    HPI: 82.31

    Rank: 10

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    Li Bai

    WRITER

    701 - 762

    HPI: 82.18

    Rank: 11

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    Sima Qian

    HISTORIAN

    145 BC - 86 BC

    HPI: 81.89

    Rank: 12

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    14th Dalai Lama

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    1935 - Present

    HPI: 81.54

    Rank: 13

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    Xi Jinping

    POLITICIAN

    1953 - Present

    HPI: 81.17

    Rank: 14

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    Kublai Khan

    POLITICIAN

    1215 - 1294

    HPI: 81.16

    Rank: 15

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Sun Yat-sen ranks 4. Before him are Mao Zedong (1893), Huang Xianfan (1899), and Qin Shi Huang (-258). After him are Deng Xiaoping (1904), Xi Jinping (1953), Kublai Khan (1215), Empress Dowager Cixi (1835), Wu Zetian (624), Hu Jintao (1942), Qianlong Emperor (1711), and Liu Bei (161).

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