1874 - 1965
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as 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, 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 64,318,779 page views. His biography is available in 157 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 154 in 2019). Winston Churchill is the 18th most popular politician (up from 20th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 10th 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 18 out of 15,577. Before him are Vladimir Putin, Suleiman the Magnificent, David, Saladin, Elizabeth I of England, and Jimmy Carter. After him are Constantine the Great, Benito Mussolini, Hannibal, Otto von Bismarck, Hammurabi, and Cicero.
1952 - Present
HPI: 88.82
Rank: 12
1494 - 1566
HPI: 88.38
Rank: 13
1010 BC - 970 BC
HPI: 87.93
Rank: 14
1138 - 1193
HPI: 87.73
Rank: 15
1533 - 1603
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 16
1924 - Present
HPI: 87.46
Rank: 17
1874 - 1965
HPI: 86.92
Rank: 18
272 - 337
HPI: 86.83
Rank: 19
1883 - 1945
HPI: 86.73
Rank: 20
183 BC - 183 BC
HPI: 86.56
Rank: 21
1815 - 1898
HPI: 86.51
Rank: 22
1810 BC - 1750 BC
HPI: 86.38
Rank: 23
106 BC - 43 BC
HPI: 86.32
Rank: 24
Among people born in 1874, Winston Churchill ranks 1. After him are Guglielmo Marconi, Robert Frost, Harry Houdini, Arnold Schoenberg, Herbert Hoover, Howard Carter, Edward Thorndike, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ernst Cassirer, Chaim Weizmann, and Max Scheler. 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, Stan Laurel, Eli Cohen, W. Somerset Maugham, Louise Mountbatten, and Edward Victor Appleton.
1874 - 1965
HPI: 86.92
Rank: 1
1874 - 1937
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 2
1874 - 1963
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 3
1874 - 1926
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 4
1874 - 1951
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 5
1874 - 1964
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 6
1874 - 1939
HPI: 71.79
Rank: 7
1874 - 1949
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 8
1874 - 1942
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 9
1874 - 1945
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 10
1874 - 1952
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 11
1874 - 1928
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 12
1874 - 1965
HPI: 86.92
Rank: 1
1925 - 1965
HPI: 83.94
Rank: 2
1887 - 1965
HPI: 82.89
Rank: 3
1875 - 1965
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 4
1875 - 1965
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 5
1920 - 1965
HPI: 71.25
Rank: 6
1878 - 1965
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 7
1890 - 1965
HPI: 70.77
Rank: 8
1924 - 1965
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 9
1874 - 1965
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 10
1889 - 1965
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 11
1892 - 1965
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, Winston Churchill ranks 9 out of 7,765. Before him are William Shakespeare (1564), Charles Darwin (1809), Elizabeth II (1926), John Locke (1632), Francis Bacon (1561), and Elizabeth I of England (1533). After him are Charlie Chaplin (1889), Stephen Hawking (1942), James Watt (1736), Henry VIII of England (1491), Queen Victoria (1819), and Thomas Hobbes (1588).
1564 - 1616
HPI: 90.88
Rank: 3
1809 - 1882
HPI: 90.67
Rank: 4
1926 - 2022
HPI: 90.46
Rank: 5
1632 - 1704
HPI: 88.31
Rank: 6
1561 - 1626
HPI: 87.67
Rank: 7
1533 - 1603
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 8
1874 - 1965
HPI: 86.92
Rank: 9
1889 - 1977
HPI: 86.83
Rank: 10
1942 - 2018
HPI: 86.45
Rank: 11
1736 - 1819
HPI: 86.42
Rank: 12
1491 - 1547
HPI: 86.01
Rank: 13
1819 - 1901
HPI: 85.80
Rank: 14
1588 - 1679
HPI: 84.85
Rank: 15
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), Margaret Thatcher (1925), Mary I of England (1516), Richard I of England (1157), Mary, Queen of Scots (1542), Mary II of England (1662), John Major (1943), Oliver Cromwell (1599), and Alfred the Great (849).
1533 - 1603
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 1
1874 - 1965
HPI: 86.92
Rank: 2
1819 - 1901
HPI: 85.80
Rank: 3
1452 - 1485
HPI: 84.85
Rank: 4
1925 - 2013
HPI: 83.20
Rank: 5
1516 - 1558
HPI: 82.97
Rank: 6
1157 - 1199
HPI: 82.60
Rank: 7
1542 - 1587
HPI: 81.53
Rank: 8
1662 - 1694
HPI: 80.89
Rank: 9
1943 - Present
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 10
1599 - 1658
HPI: 78.88
Rank: 11
849 - 899
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 12