1883 - 1959
William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat, best known for serving as the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II. He is regarded as the founding father of the CIA, and a statue of him stands in the lobby of the CIA headquarters building in Langley, Virginia. A decorated veteran of World War I, Donovan is the only person to have received all four of the United States' highest awards: the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the National Security Medal. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William J. Donovan has received more than 910,032 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). William J. Donovan is the 10,895th most popular politician (up from 11,067th in 2019), the 4,625th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,671st in 2019) and the 285th most popular American Politician.
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Among politicians, William J. Donovan ranks 10,895 out of 15,710. Before him are Mohammad Hidayatullah, José Alencar, August Zaleski, Wan Li, Luis Herrera Campins, and Henri Callot. After him are Brent Scowcroft, Mohammed Mzali, Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Otto Tief, Ahhotep II, and Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
1905 - 1992
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 10,889
1931 - 2011
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 10,890
1883 - 1972
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 10,891
1916 - 2015
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 10,892
1925 - 2007
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 10,893
1875 - 1956
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 10,894
1883 - 1959
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 10,895
1925 - 2020
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 10,896
1925 - 2010
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 10,897
1622 - 1698
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 10,898
1889 - 1976
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 10,899
1600 BC - 1600 BC
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 10,900
1646 - 1691
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 10,901
Among people born in 1883, William J. Donovan ranks 148. Before him are D. S. Senanayake, Pavel Filonov, Demyan Bedny, Rube Goldberg, Jens Hundseid, and August Zaleski. After him are Raimu, Franklin Clarence Mars, Olaf Bull, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Gheorghe Argeșanu, and Paul Götz. Among people deceased in 1959, William J. Donovan ranks 104. Before him are William D. Leahy, Erhard Schmidt, Aleksandr Khinchin, Alfonso López Pumarejo, Lou Costello, and Ernst Fast. After him are Maxie Long, Max O. Lorenz, Fernand Bouisson, Maxwell Anderson, Paul Rivet, and Galaktion Tabidze.
1883 - 1952
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 142
1883 - 1941
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 143
1883 - 1945
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 144
1883 - 1970
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 145
1883 - 1963
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 146
1883 - 1972
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 147
1883 - 1959
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 148
1883 - 1946
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 149
1883 - 1934
HPI: 61.14
Rank: 150
1883 - 1933
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 151
1883 - 1963
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 152
1883 - 1940
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 153
1883 - 1962
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 154
1875 - 1959
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 98
1876 - 1959
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 99
1894 - 1959
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 100
1886 - 1959
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 101
1906 - 1959
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 102
1881 - 1959
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 103
1883 - 1959
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 104
1878 - 1959
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 105
1876 - 1959
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 106
1874 - 1959
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 107
1888 - 1959
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 108
1876 - 1959
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 109
1891 - 1959
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 110
Among people born in United States, William J. Donovan ranks 4,625 out of 15,968. Before him are Milton Berle (1908), Jack Nitzsche (1937), Tyler, the Creator (1991), Benny Urquidez (1952), XXXTentacion (1998), and Timothée Chalamet (1995). After him are Chuck Connors (1921), Lester Allan Pelton (1829), Glenn Danzig (1955), Brent Scowcroft (1925), Mary Beth Peil (1940), and Lou Henry Hoover (1874).
1908 - 2002
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 4,619
1937 - 2000
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 4,620
1991 - Present
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 4,621
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 4,622
1998 - 2018
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 4,623
1995 - Present
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 4,624
1883 - 1959
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 4,625
1921 - 1992
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 4,626
1829 - 1908
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 4,627
1955 - Present
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 4,628
1925 - 2020
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 4,629
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 4,630
1874 - 1944
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 4,631
Among politicians born in United States, William J. Donovan ranks 285. Before him are John Warner (1927), Margaret Taylor (1788), Edmund Randolph (1753), Osceola (1804), Ambrose Burnside (1824), and Jeannette Rankin (1880). After him are Brent Scowcroft (1925), Lou Henry Hoover (1874), Oliver North (1943), Ron Johnson (1955), John Hay (1838), and Abigail Fillmore (1798).
1927 - Present
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 279
1788 - 1852
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 280
1753 - 1813
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 281
1804 - 1838
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 282
1824 - 1881
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 283
1880 - 1973
HPI: 61.31
Rank: 284
1883 - 1959
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 285
1925 - 2020
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 286
1874 - 1944
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 287
1943 - Present
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 288
1955 - Present
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 289
1838 - 1905
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 290
1798 - 1853
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 291