1743 - 1821
William I, Elector of Hesse (German: Wilhelm I., Kurfürst von Hessen; 3 June 1743 – 27 February 1821) was the eldest surviving son of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) and Princess Mary of Great Britain, the daughter of George II. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William I, Elector of Hesse has received more than 235,275 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). William I, Elector of Hesse is the 4,927th most popular politician (down from 4,592nd in 2019), the 1,367th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,302nd in 2019) and the 410th most popular German Politician.
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Among politicians, William I, Elector of Hesse ranks 4,927 out of 15,577. Before him are Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Pedro Sánchez, Amyntas II of Macedon, Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, Stepan Shaumian, and Gojong of Goryeo. After him are Rusa I, Leonardo Loredan, Guillaume de Beaujeu, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Al-Rashid of Morocco, and Leonnatus.
1696 - 1788
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 4,921
1972 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 4,922
500 BC - 393 BC
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 4,923
1637 - 1691
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 4,924
1878 - 1918
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 4,925
1192 - 1259
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 4,926
1743 - 1821
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 4,927
800 BC - 714 BC
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 4,928
1436 - 1521
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 4,929
1300 - 1291
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 4,930
1721 - 1774
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 4,931
1631 - 1672
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 4,932
356 BC - 322 BC
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 4,933
Among people born in 1743, William I, Elector of Hesse ranks 16. Before him are Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Carl Peter Thunberg, Edmund Cartwright, Nicolai Abildgaard, and René Just Haüy. After him are Gavrila Derzhavin, Joseph Banks, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, William Paley, and Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano. Among people deceased in 1821, William I, Elector of Hesse ranks 8. Before him are John Keats, Joseph de Maistre, John William Polidori, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Caroline of Brunswick, and Franz Karl Achard. After him are Johann Jacob Schweppe, Gregory V of Constantinople, Tudor Vladimirescu, Jean Rapp, Juan O'Donojú, and Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt.
1743 - 1817
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 10
1743 - 1819
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 11
1743 - 1828
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 12
1743 - 1823
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 13
1743 - 1809
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 14
1743 - 1822
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 15
1743 - 1821
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 16
1743 - 1816
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 17
1743 - 1820
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 18
1743 - 1803
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 19
1743 - 1810
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 20
1743 - 1805
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 21
1743 - 1780
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 22
1795 - 1821
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 2
1753 - 1821
HPI: 67.37
Rank: 3
1795 - 1821
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 4
1753 - 1821
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 5
1768 - 1821
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 6
1753 - 1821
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 7
1743 - 1821
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 8
1740 - 1821
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 9
1745 - 1821
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 10
1780 - 1821
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 11
1771 - 1821
HPI: 54.07
Rank: 12
1762 - 1821
HPI: 53.75
Rank: 13
1746 - 1821
HPI: 53.65
Rank: 14
Among people born in Germany, William I, Elector of Hesse ranks 1,367 out of 6,142. Before him are Albert II, Margrave of Meissen (1240), Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1888), Melitta Bentz (1873), Stéphane Hessel (1917), Hermine Reuss of Greiz (1887), and Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (1823). After him are Friedrich Hund (1896), Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803), Conrad II of Italy (1074), Siegfried Kracauer (1889), Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884), and Max Schreck (1879).
1240 - 1314
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 1,361
1888 - 1976
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 1,362
1873 - 1950
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,363
1917 - 2013
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,364
1887 - 1947
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,365
1823 - 1914
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 1,366
1743 - 1821
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 1,367
1896 - 1997
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 1,368
1803 - 1829
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 1,369
1074 - 1101
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 1,370
1889 - 1966
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 1,371
1884 - 1948
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 1,372
1879 - 1936
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 1,373
Among politicians born in Germany, William I, Elector of Hesse ranks 410. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz (1721), Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse (1806), Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1700), Albert II, Margrave of Meissen (1240), Hermine Reuss of Greiz (1887), and Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (1823). After him are Conrad II of Italy (1074), Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884), John George IV, Elector of Saxony (1668), Otto Wels (1873), Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (1866), and Julius Schaub (1898).
1721 - 1773
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 404
1806 - 1877
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 405
1700 - 1770
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 406
1240 - 1314
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 407
1887 - 1947
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 408
1823 - 1914
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 409
1743 - 1821
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 410
1074 - 1101
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 411
1884 - 1948
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 412
1668 - 1694
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 413
1873 - 1939
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 414
1866 - 1953
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 415
1898 - 1967
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 416