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William Lyon Mackenzie King

1874 - 1950

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William Lyon Mackenzie King (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950) was a Canadian statesman and politician who was the tenth prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930, and 1935 to 1948. A Liberal, he was the dominant politician in Canada from the early 1920s to the late 1940s. King is best known for his leadership of Canada throughout the Great Depression and the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Lyon Mackenzie King has received more than 2,304,705 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). William Lyon Mackenzie King is the 8,165th most popular politician (down from 6,410th in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Canada (down from 97th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Canadian Politician.

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  • 55.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year William Lyon Mackenzie King has had the most page views in the with 283,638 views, followed by French (23,330), and Chinese (13,059). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kazakh (143.73%), Russian (138.56%), and Malagasy (106.19%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Lyon Mackenzie King ranks 8,165 out of 19,576. Before him are Neoptolemus I of Epirus, Gangjong of Goryeo, Nikolai Voznesensky, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Agnes of Dampierre, and Marcus Minucius Rufus. After him are Gaius Terentius Varro, Ali Kemal, Giovanni Morelli, John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Infanta María Cristina of Spain, and Adolf Schmal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, William Lyon Mackenzie King ranks 77. Before him are Paul Wegener, Lewis Hine, Princess Anna of Montenegro, René-Louis Baire, Serge Koussevitzky, and István Bethlen. After him are Lina Cavalieri, Laura Montoya, Clemens von Pirquet, Joseph Klausner, Pierre Souvestre, and Gustave Whitehead. Among people deceased in 1950, William Lyon Mackenzie King ranks 69. Before him are Hantaro Nagaoka, John C. Woods, Walter Eucken, Yvan Goll, Traian Vuia, and Nikolai Voznesensky. After him are Shigenori Tōgō, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, Arturo Alessandri, Karl Guthe Jansky, Harold Laski, and Lev Berg.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King ranks 125 out of 1,622. Before him are Graham Greene (1952), Florence Lawrence (1886), Loreena McKennitt (1957), Eric McCormack (1963), Mary Simon (1947), and Steven Pinker (1954). After him are Lorne Greene (1915), John Stanley Plaskett (1865), William Osler (1849), Evangeline Lilly (1979), Gordie Howe (1928), and Arthur Hiller (1923).

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Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King ranks 9. Before him are Lester B. Pearson (1897), Bonar Law (1858), Marie-Louise Meilleur (1880), Jean Chrétien (1934), Paul Martin (1938), and Mary Simon (1947). After him are Louis Riel (1844), Wilfrid Laurier (1841), Brian Mulroney (1939), Stephen Harper (1959), René Lévesque (1922), and Jean Béliveau (1931).

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