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Willem Drees

1886 - 1988

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Willem Drees Sr. (; 5 July 1886 – 14 May 1988) was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 to 22 December 1958. Drees was elected to the House of Representatives for the SDAP in the 1933 general election and served as a frontbencher and spokesperson for social affairs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willem Drees has received more than 275,276 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Willem Drees is the 4,908th most popular politician (up from 5,267th in 2019), the 201st most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 215th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Dutch Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Willem Drees ranks 4,908 out of 19,576. Before him are Yolande of Valois, Stefan Vladislav, Tokugawa Iemochi, Ali Rıza Efendi, Ferenc Deák, and Ram Khamhaeng. After him are Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, Muqan Qaghan, François Louis, Prince of Conti, Norodom Suramarit, Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, and Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Willem Drees ranks 50. Before him are Dong Biwu, Edward C. Tolman, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Alain-Fournier, Gottfried Benn, and Erich Fellgiebel. After him are Tsuguharu Foujita, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Jisaburō Ozawa, Raymond A. Spruance, Georg Stumme, and Rex Stout. Among people deceased in 1988, Willem Drees ranks 40. Before him are Franz Josef Strauss, Hermann Graf, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Henryk Szeryng, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Ana Aslan. After him are Chico Mendes, Muzafer Sherif, Trường Chinh, Khalil al-Wazir, Paul Grice, and Luis Walter Alvarez.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem Drees ranks 201 out of 1,646. Before him are Wesley Sneijder (1984), Johann Adam Reincken (1643), Rachel Ruysch (1664), Jan van Scorel (1495), Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606), and Jan Janszoon (1570). After him are Gustav Leonhardt (1928), Guido van Rossum (1956), Philips Wouwerman (1619), Jan Ingenhousz (1730), William I, Count of Hainaut (1287), and Rodolphus Agricola (1443).

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Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Willem Drees ranks 27. Before him are Wim Kok (1938), Princess Irene of the Netherlands (1939), John II, Count of Holland (1247), Wim Duisenberg (1935), Margaret of Bavaria (1363), and Nicholas J. Spykman (1893). After him are William I, Count of Hainaut (1287), Abraham Kuyper (1837), Peter Stuyvesant (1612), Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1547), Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau (1576), and Joan Blaeu (1596).

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