1874 - 1965
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Winston Churchill has received more than 46,403,217 page views. His biography is available in 154 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 149 in 2019). Winston Churchill is the 20th most popular politician (up from 26th in 2019), the 10th 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, Winston Churchill ranks 20 out of 15,710. Before him are Jimmy Carter, Constantine the Great, Attila, Suleiman the Magnificent, Hannibal, and Benito Mussolini. After him are Otto von Bismarck, Mao Zedong, Tutankhamun, Ulysses S. Grant, Cicero, and Commodus.
1924 - Present
HPI: 90.85
Rank: 14
272 - 337
HPI: 90.76
Rank: 15
406 - 453
HPI: 90.29
Rank: 16
1494 - 1566
HPI: 90.22
Rank: 17
183 BC - 183 BC
HPI: 90.14
Rank: 18
1883 - 1945
HPI: 90.01
Rank: 19
1874 - 1965
HPI: 89.73
Rank: 20
1815 - 1898
HPI: 89.69
Rank: 21
1893 - 1976
HPI: 89.64
Rank: 22
1341 BC - 1323 BC
HPI: 89.49
Rank: 23
1822 - 1885
HPI: 89.27
Rank: 24
106 BC - 43 BC
HPI: 89.25
Rank: 25
161 - 192
HPI: 89.25
Rank: 26
Among people born in 1874, Winston Churchill ranks 1. After him are Guglielmo Marconi, Robert Frost, Arnold Schoenberg, Harry Houdini, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Edward Thorndike, Howard Carter, W. Somerset Maugham, Herbert Hoover, Chaim Weizmann, and Ernst Cassirer. Among people deceased in 1965, Winston Churchill ranks 1. After him are Malcolm X, Le Corbusier, Albert Schweitzer, Syngman Rhee, Martin Buber, W. Somerset Maugham, Stan Laurel, Farouk of Egypt, Eli Cohen, T. S. Eliot, and Nat King Cole.
1874 - 1965
HPI: 89.73
Rank: 1
1874 - 1937
HPI: 84.02
Rank: 2
1874 - 1963
HPI: 83.51
Rank: 3
1874 - 1951
HPI: 81.48
Rank: 4
1874 - 1926
HPI: 80.68
Rank: 5
1874 - 1942
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 6
1874 - 1949
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 7
1874 - 1939
HPI: 78.51
Rank: 8
1874 - 1965
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 9
1874 - 1964
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 10
1874 - 1952
HPI: 77.42
Rank: 11
1874 - 1945
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 12
1874 - 1965
HPI: 89.73
Rank: 1
1925 - 1965
HPI: 88.13
Rank: 2
1887 - 1965
HPI: 87.33
Rank: 3
1875 - 1965
HPI: 82.32
Rank: 4
1875 - 1965
HPI: 80.47
Rank: 5
1878 - 1965
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 6
1874 - 1965
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 7
1890 - 1965
HPI: 77.43
Rank: 8
1920 - 1965
HPI: 77.11
Rank: 9
1924 - 1965
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 10
1888 - 1965
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 11
1919 - 1965
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, Winston Churchill ranks 10 out of 6,924. Before him are Elizabeth II (1926), Adam Smith (1723), Elizabeth I of England (1533), Charlie Chaplin (1889), John Locke (1632), and Francis Bacon (1561). After him are James Watt (1736), Stephen Hawking (1942), Ragnar Lodbrok (850), Queen Victoria (1819), Thomas Hobbes (1588), and Michael Faraday (1791).
1926 - Present
HPI: 93.05
Rank: 4
1723 - 1790
HPI: 91.58
Rank: 5
1533 - 1603
HPI: 90.91
Rank: 6
1889 - 1977
HPI: 90.72
Rank: 7
1632 - 1704
HPI: 90.25
Rank: 8
1561 - 1626
HPI: 90.24
Rank: 9
1874 - 1965
HPI: 89.73
Rank: 10
1736 - 1819
HPI: 89.63
Rank: 11
1942 - 2018
HPI: 89.32
Rank: 12
850 - 801
HPI: 89.21
Rank: 13
1819 - 1901
HPI: 89.14
Rank: 14
1588 - 1679
HPI: 88.52
Rank: 15
1791 - 1867
HPI: 88.23
Rank: 16
Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Winston Churchill ranks 2. Before him are Elizabeth I of England (1533). After him are Queen Victoria (1819), Richard III of England (1452), Mary, Queen of Scots (1542), Richard I of England (1157), Mary I of England (1516), Margaret Thatcher (1925), Mary II of England (1662), Henry V of England (1386), Alfred the Great (849), and Oliver Cromwell (1599).
1533 - 1603
HPI: 90.91
Rank: 1
1874 - 1965
HPI: 89.73
Rank: 2
1819 - 1901
HPI: 89.14
Rank: 3
1452 - 1485
HPI: 87.93
Rank: 4
1542 - 1587
HPI: 87.23
Rank: 5
1157 - 1199
HPI: 86.72
Rank: 6
1516 - 1558
HPI: 86.34
Rank: 7
1925 - 2013
HPI: 86.06
Rank: 8
1662 - 1694
HPI: 85.90
Rank: 9
1386 - 1422
HPI: 84.75
Rank: 10
849 - 899
HPI: 84.51
Rank: 11
1599 - 1658
HPI: 83.79
Rank: 12