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Tony Blair

1953 - Today

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Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held various shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994. Blair was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007, and was special envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East from 2007 to 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tony Blair has received more than 19,228,544 page views. His biography is available in 120 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 116 in 2019). Tony Blair is the 794th most popular politician (up from 1,835th in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 430th in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Politician.

Tony Blair was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. He is most famous for leading the UK into the Iraq War in 2003.

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  • 19M

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  • 75.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 120

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tony Blair ranks 794 out of 19,576. Before him are Zewditu, William III of the Netherlands, Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, İsmet İnönü, Enrico Dandolo, and Robert the Bruce. After him are Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Eduard Bernstein, Walter Ulbricht, Tamar of Georgia, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and Hideki Tojo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Tony Blair ranks 5. Before him are Xi Jinping, Zico, Jeffrey Epstein, and Moon Jae-in. After him are Pierce Brosnan, Brigitte Macron, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Herta Müller, Isabelle Huppert, Kim Basinger, and Richard Clayderman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tony Blair ranks 187 out of 8,785. Before him are Charlotte Rampling (1946), Elizabeth of York (1466), Henry III of England (1207), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Peter O'Toole (1932), and Robert the Bruce (1274). After him are Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), Saint Ursula (400), Jason Statham (1967), Arthur Henderson (1863), Ken Loach (1936), and Pete Townshend (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Tony Blair ranks 39. Before him are James VI and I (1566), Edward V of England (1470), Anthony Eden (1897), Boudica (33), Henry III of England (1207), and Robert the Bruce (1274). After him are Arthur Henderson (1863), Charles II of England (1630), Henry I of England (1068), Edward the Elder (871), Clement Attlee (1883), and Harold Godwinson (1022).

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