1708 - 1778
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768. Historians call him Chatham or William Pitt the Elder to distinguish him from his son William Pitt the Younger, who was also a prime minister. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham has received more than 1,405,362 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham is the 7,584th most popular politician (down from 6,538th in 2019), the 1,571st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,422nd in 2019) and the 255th most popular British Politician.
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Among politicians, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ranks 7,584 out of 15,577. Before him are Boutros Ghali, William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg, Manuel I of Trebizond, Godepert, and Alexander Yakovlev. After him are Maurice Couve de Murville, Paulias Matane, René Duguay-Trouin, Časlav, Alexander of Tralles, and Charles, Duke of Calabria.
1846 - 1910
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 7,578
1629 - 1663
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 7,579
1390 - 1440
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 7,580
1218 - 1263
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 7,581
610 - 662
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 7,582
1923 - 2005
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 7,583
1708 - 1778
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 7,584
1907 - 1999
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 7,585
1931 - 2021
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 7,586
1673 - 1736
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 7,587
896 - 960
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 7,588
525 - 605
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 7,589
1298 - 1328
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 7,590
Among people born in 1708, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ranks 6. Before him are Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, Albrecht von Haller, Pompeo Batoni, and 7th Dalai Lama. After him are Antiochus Kantemir, Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, Egidio Duni, Johann Adolf Scheibe, Olof von Dalin, and Georg Dionysius Ehret. Among people deceased in 1778, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ranks 11. Before him are Anna Maria Mozart, Laura Bassi, James Hargreaves, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, Thomas Arne, and Étienne-Gabriel Morelly. After him are Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo, Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg, Charles De Geer, Francesca Cuzzoni, and Pedro Antonio de Cevallos.
1708 - 1765
HPI: 76.95
Rank: 1
1708 - 1728
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 2
1708 - 1777
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 3
1708 - 1787
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 4
1708 - 1757
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 5
1708 - 1778
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 6
1708 - 1744
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 7
1708 - 1752
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 8
1708 - 1775
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 9
1708 - 1776
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 10
1708 - 1763
HPI: 48.80
Rank: 11
1708 - 1770
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 12
1720 - 1778
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 5
1711 - 1778
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 6
1720 - 1778
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 7
1721 - 1778
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 8
1710 - 1778
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 9
1717 - 1778
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 10
1708 - 1778
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 11
1701 - 1778
HPI: 53.76
Rank: 12
1725 - 1778
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 13
1717 - 1778
HPI: 50.67
Rank: 14
1720 - 1778
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 15
1696 - 1778
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 16
1715 - 1778
HPI: 46.85
Rank: 17
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ranks 1,571 out of 7,765. Before him are William Auld (1924), William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720), John Muir (1838), David Coulthard (1971), Frances Shand Kydd (1936), and Margaret Douglas (1515). After him are John Barbirolli (1899), Oliver Hart (1948), Maurice Wilkes (1913), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), Mary Ann Cotton (1832), and Rafael Merry del Val (1865).
1924 - 2006
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 1,565
1720 - 1764
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 1,566
1838 - 1914
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 1,567
1971 - Present
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 1,568
1936 - 2004
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 1,569
1515 - 1578
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 1,570
1708 - 1778
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 1,571
1899 - 1970
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 1,572
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 1,573
1913 - 2010
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 1,574
1942 - Present
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 1,575
1832 - 1873
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 1,576
1865 - 1930
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 1,577
Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ranks 255. Before him are James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (1531), Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), Glenda Jackson (1936), George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720), and Margaret Douglas (1515). After him are Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455), Rædwald of East Anglia (550), Joe Davis (1901), George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), and Marjorie Bruce (1297).
1531 - 1570
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 249
1473 - 1554
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 250
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 251
1784 - 1860
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 252
1720 - 1764
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 253
1515 - 1578
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 254
1708 - 1778
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 255
1455 - 1483
HPI: 55.06
Rank: 256
550 - 624
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 257
1901 - 1978
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 258
1737 - 1806
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 259
1961 - Present
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 260
1297 - 1316
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 261