1841 - 1919
Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier, ( LORR-ee-ay; French: [wilfʁid loʁje]; November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was a Canadian lawyer, statesman, and politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minister, his 15-year tenure remains the longest uninterrupted term of office among Canadian prime ministers and his nearly 45 years of service in the House of Commons is a record for the House. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilfrid Laurier has received more than 1,428,013 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Wilfrid Laurier is the 7,757th most popular politician (up from 7,816th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Canada (up from 129th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Canadian Politician.
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Among politicians, Wilfrid Laurier ranks 7,757 out of 15,577. Before him are Lotf Ali Khan, Heonjong of Goryeo, Huang Xing, Ismail Haniyeh, Efim Geller, and Lord Guildford Dudley. After him are Viacheslav I of Kiev, Jiro Taniguchi, Azem Galica, Fyodor Okhlopkov, Archduke Anton Victor of Austria, and Konrad von Jungingen.
1769 - 1794
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 7,751
1084 - 1097
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 7,752
1874 - 1916
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 7,753
1962 - Present
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 7,754
1925 - 1998
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 7,755
1536 - 1553
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 7,756
1841 - 1919
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 7,757
1083 - 1154
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 7,758
1947 - 2017
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 7,759
1889 - 1924
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 7,760
1908 - 1968
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 7,761
1779 - 1835
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 7,762
1355 - 1407
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 7,763
Among people born in 1841, Wilfrid Laurier ranks 33. Before him are Annie Chapman, Sam Loyd, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Hermann Carl Vogel, Ybyrai Altynsarin, and Otto von Gierke. After him are Joseph Henry Blackburne, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Prudente de Morais, Philipp Mainländer, Princess Marie of the Netherlands, and Felip Pedrell. Among people deceased in 1919, Wilfrid Laurier ranks 63. Before him are Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Raymonde de Laroche, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Daniel Peter, and William Osler. After him are Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, Adelina Patti, Mark Sykes, Hugo Haase, Louis Botha, and Karl Brugmann.
1841 - 1888
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 27
1841 - 1911
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 28
1841 - 1910
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 29
1841 - 1907
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 30
1841 - 1889
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 31
1841 - 1921
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 32
1841 - 1919
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 33
1841 - 1924
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 34
1841 - 1910
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 35
1841 - 1902
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 36
1841 - 1876
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 37
1841 - 1910
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 38
1841 - 1922
HPI: 54.09
Rank: 39
1839 - 1919
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 57
1882 - 1919
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 58
1862 - 1919
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 59
1848 - 1919
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 60
1836 - 1919
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 61
1849 - 1919
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 62
1841 - 1919
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 63
1853 - 1919
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 64
1843 - 1919
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 65
1879 - 1919
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 66
1863 - 1919
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 67
1862 - 1919
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 68
1849 - 1919
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 69
Among people born in Canada, Wilfrid Laurier ranks 124 out of 1,350. Before him are Jean Chrétien (1934), David Morrell (1943), Bonar Law (1858), William Osler (1849), Brian Kernighan (1942), and Gerald Bull (1928). After him are Paul Martin (1938), Gil Evans (1912), Shania Twain (1965), Evangeline Lilly (1979), Paul Watson (1950), and John Tuzo Wilson (1908).
1934 - Present
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 118
1943 - Present
HPI: 55.04
Rank: 119
1858 - 1923
HPI: 55.02
Rank: 120
1849 - 1919
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 121
1942 - Present
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 122
1928 - 1990
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 123
1841 - 1919
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 124
1938 - Present
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 125
1912 - 1988
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 126
1965 - Present
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 127
1979 - Present
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 128
1950 - Present
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 129
1908 - 1993
HPI: 54.61
Rank: 130
Among politicians born in Canada, Wilfrid Laurier ranks 9. Before him are Marie-Louise Meilleur (1880), Lester B. Pearson (1897), William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874), Louis Riel (1844), Jean Chrétien (1934), and Bonar Law (1858). After him are Paul Martin (1938), Brian Mulroney (1939), Terry Sawchuk (1929), Stephen Harper (1959), Jean Béliveau (1931), and David Johnston (1941).
1880 - 1998
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 3
1897 - 1972
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 4
1874 - 1950
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 5
1844 - 1885
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 6
1934 - Present
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 7
1858 - 1923
HPI: 55.02
Rank: 8
1841 - 1919
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 9
1938 - Present
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 10
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 11
1929 - 1970
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 12
1959 - Present
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 13
1931 - 2014
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 14
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 15