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Winston Churchill

1874 - 1965

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (during the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from 1922 to 1924, he was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Winston Churchill has received more than 66,658,839 page views. His biography is available in 171 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 157 in 2019). Winston Churchill is the 31st most popular politician (down from 18th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 9th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Politician.

Winston Churchill was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer, and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his overall, lifetime body of work.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Winston Churchill ranks 31 out of 19,576. Before him are Benito Mussolini, Hammurabi, Mao Zedong, Cicero, Huang Xianfan, and Constantine the Great. After him are Attila, Osman I, Umar, Maria Theresa, Richard III of England, and Abraham Lincoln.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Winston Churchill ranks 1. After him are Robert Frost, Guglielmo Marconi, Harry Houdini, Arnold Schoenberg, Herbert Hoover, Howard Carter, Chaim Weizmann, Ernst Cassirer, Johannes Stark, Max Scheler, and Edward Thorndike. Among people deceased in 1965, Winston Churchill ranks 1. After him are Malcolm X, Le Corbusier, Albert Schweitzer, Syngman Rhee, Farouk of Egypt, Martin Buber, Moshe Sharett, Stan Laurel, Edward Victor Appleton, Eli Cohen, and Louise Mountbatten.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Winston Churchill ranks 11 out of 8,785. Before him are Elizabeth II (1926), Lord Byron (1788), Charlie Chaplin (1889), Francis Bacon (1561), Elizabeth I of England (1533), and John Locke (1632). After him are James Watt (1736), Richard III of England (1452), Paul McCartney (1942), Anthony Hopkins (1937), William IV of the United Kingdom (1765), and Queen Victoria (1819).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Winston Churchill ranks 2. Before him are Elizabeth I of England (1533). After him are Richard III of England (1452), William IV of the United Kingdom (1765), Queen Victoria (1819), Richard I of England (1157), Mary II of England (1662), Margaret Thatcher (1925), Mary I of England (1516), John Major (1943), Mary, Queen of Scots (1542), and Oliver Cromwell (1599).

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