1730 - 1803
Sir William Hamilton, KB, PC, FRS, FRSE (13 December 1730 – 6 April 1803) was a British diplomat, politician, antiquarian and vulcanologist who served as the Envoy Extraordinary to the Kingdom of Naples from 1764 to 1800. After sitting in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1761 to 1764, he began working as a diplomat, succeeding Sir James Gray as the British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples. While in Italy, Hamilton became involved in studying local volcanoes and collecting antiquities, becoming a fellow of the Royal Society and being given the Copley Medal. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Hamilton has received more than 69,060 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). William Hamilton is the 8,085th most popular politician (down from 7,271st in 2019), the 1,694th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,587th in 2019) and the 266th most popular British Politician.
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Among politicians, William Hamilton ranks 8,085 out of 15,577. Before him are Octavian Goga, Catherine I, Latin Empress, Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Malam Bacai Sanhá, Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Arpa Ke'un. After him are Ziaur Rahman, Prince Álmos, Berthold II, Duke of Carinthia, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, and Maria Aurora von Königsmarck.
1881 - 1938
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 8,079
1274 - 1307
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 8,080
1877 - 1960
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 8,081
1947 - 2012
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 8,082
1676 - 1732
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,083
1300 - 1336
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,084
1730 - 1803
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,085
1936 - 1981
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,086
1070 - 1127
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,087
1000 - 1078
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,088
1890 - 1972
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,089
1831 - 1873
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,090
1662 - 1728
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,091
Among people born in 1730, William Hamilton ranks 15. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Antonio Sacchini, Pieter Boddaert, Josiah Wedgwood, Velu Nachiyar, and James Bruce. After him are Motoori Norinaga, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, William Hudson, Augustin Pajou, Salomon Gessner, and Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham. Among people deceased in 1803, William Hamilton ranks 19. Before him are Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Xenia of Saint Petersburg, Ami Argand, Kirill Razumovski, Gottfried van Swieten, and François Devienne. After him are Samuel von Brukenthal, Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, Arthur Guinness, Sylvain Maréchal, Jean-François de La Harpe, and Nicolas Baudin.
1730 - 1794
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 9
1730 - 1786
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 10
1730 - 1795
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 11
1730 - 1795
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 12
1730 - 1796
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 13
1730 - 1794
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 14
1730 - 1803
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 15
1730 - 1801
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 16
1730 - 1807
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 17
1730 - 1793
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 18
1730 - 1809
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 19
1730 - 1788
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 20
1730 - 1782
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 21
1727 - 1803
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 13
1719 - 1803
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 14
1750 - 1803
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 15
1728 - 1803
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 16
1733 - 1803
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 17
1759 - 1803
HPI: 54.86
Rank: 18
1730 - 1803
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 19
1721 - 1803
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 20
1721 - 1803
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 21
1725 - 1803
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 22
1750 - 1803
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 23
1739 - 1803
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 24
1754 - 1803
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 25
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Hamilton ranks 1,694 out of 7,765. Before him are Mark Sykes (1879), John Collier (1850), George Green (1793), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), Irvine Welsh (1957), and Ernest Jones (1879). After him are Samantha Eggar (1939), Matthew Arnold (1822), Louise, Princess Royal (1867), Ed Sheeran (1991), Kate Sheppard (1848), and Arthur Tansley (1871).
1879 - 1919
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 1,688
1850 - 1934
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 1,689
1793 - 1841
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 1,690
1841 - 1924
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 1,691
1957 - Present
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 1,692
1879 - 1958
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 1,693
1730 - 1803
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 1,694
1939 - Present
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 1,695
1822 - 1888
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 1,696
1867 - 1931
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 1,697
1991 - Present
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 1,698
1848 - 1934
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 1,699
1871 - 1955
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 1,700
Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Hamilton ranks 266. Before him are Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694), Owain Glyndŵr (1359), Mark of Cornwall (480), Gytha of Wessex (1053), Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516), and Henry Pelham (1694). After him are Louise, Princess Royal (1867), James Connolly (1868), Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (1936), Eystein II of Norway (1125), Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768), and Cenwalh of Wessex (601).
1694 - 1773
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 260
1359 - 1415
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 261
480 - 555
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 262
1053 - 1098
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 263
1516 - 1547
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 264
1694 - 1754
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 265
1730 - 1803
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 266
1867 - 1931
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 267
1868 - 1916
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 268
1936 - Present
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 269
1125 - 1157
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 270
1768 - 1840
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 271
601 - 672
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 272