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Ted Cruz

1970 - Today

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Rafael Edward Cruz (; born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz was the solicitor general of Texas from 2003 to 2008. After graduating from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Cruz pursued a career in politics, eventually serving as a policy advisor in the George W. Bush administration. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ted Cruz has received more than 23,614,257 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Ted Cruz is the 14,954th most popular politician (down from 14,387th in 2019), the 393rd most popular biography from Canada (up from 442nd in 2019) and the 31st most popular Canadian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 24M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ted Cruz ranks 14,954 out of 19,576Before him are Rainer von Fieandt, Ichikawa Fusae, Al-Musta'in I, Edward Babiuch, Theo Heemskerk, and Gavriil Golovkin. After him are Ignacio Andrade, Pomponius Secundus, Þorsteinn Pálsson, Nadia Calviño, Manuel Merino, and Thoros III, King of Armenia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Ted Cruz ranks 158Before him are Naomi Klein, Craig Parker, Noureddine Morceli, Saulius Skvernelis, Marie-Josée Croze, and Jonathan Stroud. After him are Winston Bogarde, Bjarni Benediktsson, Pedro Diniz, Skeet Ulrich, Nicola Sturgeon, and Sam Lake.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Ted Cruz ranks 393 out of 1,622Before him are Marie-Josée Croze (1970), Alannah Myles (1958), Grimes (1988), Harold Russell (1914), Jacques Parizeau (1930), and Shawn Levy (1968). After him are Shirley Douglas (1934), John Qualen (1899), Owen Hargreaves (1981), Grant Allen (1848), Alex Lifeson (1953), and Alex Trebek (1940).

Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, Ted Cruz ranks 31Before him are John Abbott (1821), Arthur Meighen (1874), Tommy Burns (1881), R. B. Bennett (1870), Julie Payette (1963), and Jacques Parizeau (1930). After him are Patricia Jones (1930), Brock Chisholm (1896), Nancy Greene Raine (1943), Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879), François Legault (1957), and Pauline Marois (1949).