1574 - 1640
Wilhelm Kettler (20 June 1574 – 7 April 1640) was the Duke of Courland, a Baltic German region in today's Latvia. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Kettler has received more than 39,732 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Wilhelm Kettler is the 6,486th most popular politician (down from 6,433rd in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Latvian Politician.
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Among politicians, Wilhelm Kettler ranks 6,486 out of 15,577. Before him are Mithridates II of Parthia, Duqaq, 10th Dalai Lama, Alois Eliáš, Agostino Chigi, and Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes. After him are Berthold, Margrave of Baden, Zoltán of Hungary, Gallus Anonymus, Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Mateusz Morawiecki, and Fujiwara no Kamatari.
150 BC - 88 BC
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 6,480
1100 - 1104
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 6,481
1816 - 1837
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 6,482
1890 - 1942
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 6,483
1465 - 1520
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 6,484
1721 - 1794
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 6,485
1574 - 1640
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 6,486
1906 - 1963
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 6,487
896 - 949
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 6,488
1010 - 1145
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 6,489
1818 - 1881
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 6,490
1968 - Present
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 6,491
614 - 669
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 6,492
Among people born in 1574, Wilhelm Kettler ranks 9. Before him are Anne of Denmark, Maria Anna of Bavaria, William Oughtred, Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania, Robert Fludd, and Frederick IV, Elector Palatine. After him are Feng Menglong, Elisabeth of Lorraine, Dorothea Maria of Anhalt, İbrahim Peçevi, John Wilbye, and Thomas Heywood. Among people deceased in 1640, Wilhelm Kettler ranks 10. Before him are Francesca Caccini, Uriel da Costa, Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, Giuseppe Cesari, and Charles, Duke of Guise. After him are Vittoria Aleotti, Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Robert Burton, John Francis Regis, Paul Fleming, and Alessandro Salvio.
1574 - 1619
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 3
1574 - 1616
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 4
1574 - 1660
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 5
1574 - 1621
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 6
1574 - 1637
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 7
1574 - 1610
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 8
1574 - 1640
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 9
1574 - 1645
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 10
1574 - 1635
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 11
1574 - 1617
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 12
1574 - 1650
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 13
1574 - 1638
HPI: 42.94
Rank: 14
1574 - 1641
HPI: 40.03
Rank: 15
1587 - 1640
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 4
1585 - 1640
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 5
1609 - 1640
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 6
1567 - 1640
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 7
1568 - 1640
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 8
1571 - 1640
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 9
1574 - 1640
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 10
1575 - 1640
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 11
1595 - 1640
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 12
1577 - 1640
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 13
1597 - 1640
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 14
1609 - 1640
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 15
1570 - 1640
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 16
Among people born in Latvia, Wilhelm Kettler ranks 35 out of 284. Before him are Philippe Halsman (1906), Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650), Jānis Lūsis (1939), Jānis Čakste (1859), Rainis (1865), and Raimonds Pauls (1936). After him are Abraham Isaac Kook (1865), Jukums Vācietis (1873), Friedrich Kettler (1569), Solomon Mikhoels (1890), Laimdota Straujuma (1951), and Valdis Zatlers (1955).
1906 - 1979
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 29
1650 - 1698
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 30
1939 - 2020
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 31
1859 - 1927
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 32
1865 - 1929
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 33
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 34
1574 - 1640
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 35
1865 - 1935
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 36
1873 - 1938
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 37
1569 - 1642
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 38
1890 - 1948
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 39
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 40
1955 - Present
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 41
Among politicians born in Latvia, Wilhelm Kettler ranks 15. Before him are Andris Bērziņš (1944), Pauline Therese of Württemberg (1800), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Frederick William, Duke of Courland (1692), Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650), and Jānis Čakste (1859). After him are Laimdota Straujuma (1951), Valdis Zatlers (1955), Ferdinand Kettler (1655), Jānis K. Bērziņš (1889), Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (1884), and Pēteris Stučka (1865).
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 9
1800 - 1873
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 10
1804 - 1881
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 11
1692 - 1711
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 12
1650 - 1698
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 13
1859 - 1927
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 14
1574 - 1640
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 15
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 16
1955 - Present
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 17
1655 - 1737
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 18
1889 - 1938
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 19
1884 - 1923
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 20
1865 - 1932
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 21