1777 - 1847
William II (German: Wilhelm II; 28 July 1777 – 20 November 1847) was the penultimate Elector of Hesse. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William II, Elector of Hesse has received more than 143,259 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). William II, Elector of Hesse is the 7,890th most popular politician (down from 7,348th in 2019), the 2,224th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,115th in 2019) and the 665th most popular German Politician.
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Among politicians, William II, Elector of Hesse ranks 7,890 out of 15,577. Before him are Marie-Claire Alain, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este, Vyacheslav Kebich, Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Werner Lorenz, and Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal. After him are Artabanus II of Parthia, Yoshida Shōin, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Ferdinand Kettler, Ayub Khan, and Alghu.
1926 - 2013
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 7,884
1821 - 1849
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 7,885
1936 - 2020
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 7,886
1772 - 1851
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 7,887
1891 - 1974
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 7,888
1281 - 1319
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 7,889
1777 - 1847
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 7,890
100 BC - 38
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 7,891
1830 - 1859
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 7,892
1856 - 1946
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 7,893
1655 - 1737
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 7,894
1907 - 1974
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 7,895
1250 - 1266
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 7,896
Among people born in 1777, William II, Elector of Hesse ranks 22. Before him are Adélaïde d'Orléans, Bernard Courtois, Filippo Taglioni, Guillaume Dupuytren, Louis Poinsot, and Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov. After him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Lorenzo Bartolini, Christian Daniel Rauch, William Brown, Heinrich Marx, and Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom. Among people deceased in 1847, William II, Elector of Hesse ranks 16. Before him are Jules de Polignac, Adélaïde d'Orléans, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, Maria Schicklgruber, Archduke Friedrich of Austria, and Alexandre Brongniart. After him are Charles Hatchett, Thiệu Trị, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, Alexandre Deschapelles, Ioannis Kolettis, and Karl Friedrich Burdach.
1777 - 1847
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 16
1777 - 1838
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 17
1777 - 1871
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 18
1777 - 1835
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 19
1777 - 1859
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 20
1777 - 1861
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 21
1777 - 1847
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 22
1777 - 1850
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 23
1777 - 1850
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 24
1777 - 1857
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 25
1777 - 1857
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 26
1777 - 1838
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 27
1777 - 1848
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 28
1780 - 1847
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 10
1777 - 1847
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 11
1803 - 1847
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 12
1795 - 1847
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 13
1821 - 1847
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 14
1770 - 1847
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 15
1777 - 1847
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 16
1765 - 1847
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 17
1807 - 1847
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 18
1794 - 1847
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 19
1780 - 1847
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 20
1773 - 1847
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 21
1776 - 1847
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 22
Among people born in Germany, William II, Elector of Hesse ranks 2,224 out of 6,142. Before him are Tielman Susato (1500), Ludwig Uhland (1787), August Kopff (1882), Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439), Walter Sickert (1860), and Erich Mühsam (1878). After him are Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856), Heinrich Ehrler (1917), William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532), Edmund Heines (1897), Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1497), and Wolfgang Reitherman (1909).
1500 - 1570
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 2,218
1787 - 1862
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 2,219
1882 - 1960
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 2,220
1439 - 1501
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 2,221
1860 - 1942
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 2,222
1878 - 1934
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 2,223
1777 - 1847
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 2,224
1856 - 1946
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 2,225
1917 - 1945
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 2,226
1532 - 1592
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 2,227
1897 - 1934
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 2,228
1497 - 1546
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 2,229
1909 - 1985
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 2,230
Among politicians born in Germany, William II, Elector of Hesse ranks 665. Before him are Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1908), Sibylle of Cleves (1512), Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt (1794), August Hermann Francke (1663), Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria (1368), and Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439). After him are Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856), William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532), Edmund Heines (1897), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1761), Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877), and Heinz Hoffmann (1910).
1908 - 1968
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 659
1512 - 1554
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 660
1794 - 1871
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 661
1663 - 1727
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 662
1368 - 1447
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 663
1439 - 1501
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 664
1777 - 1847
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 665
1856 - 1946
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 666
1532 - 1592
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 667
1897 - 1934
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 668
1761 - 1829
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 669
1877 - 1906
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 670
1910 - 1985
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 671