1604 - 1661
Zheng Zhilong, Marquis of Tong'an (Chinese: 鄭芝龍; pinyin: Zheng Zhilong; Wade–Giles: Ching Chih-lung; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tēⁿ Chi-liông; April 16, 1604 – November 24, 1661), baptismal name Nicholas Iquan Gaspard, was a Fujianese(Hokkien) admiral, pirate leader, merchant, translator, military general, and politician of the late Ming dynasty who later defected to the Manchu Qing. He was the founder of the Zheng Dynasty, the father of Koxinga, Prince of Yanping(Zheng Chenggong 鄭成功), the founder of the pro-Ming Kingdom of Tungning in Taiwan, and as such an ancestor of the House of Koxinga. Durring his reign, he controlled giant and powerful fleets of pirates that later joined up with the Ming Dynasty's navy, which he became a Ming admiral that controlled all trade and security in the southern waters, and held the most powerful maritime empire which controlled more sea than land. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zheng Zhilong has received more than 188,172 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Zheng Zhilong is the 8,160th most popular politician (down from 7,529th in 2019), the 572nd most popular biography from China (down from 528th in 2019) and the 331st most popular Chinese Politician.
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Among politicians, Zheng Zhilong ranks 8,160 out of 15,577. Before him are Shuttarna II, Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, Gertrude of Austria, John I Doukas of Thessaly, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, and Akbar II. After him are Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef, Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Hippocrates of Gela, Caspar Bartholin the Younger, Yasovarman I, and Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
1350 BC - 1375
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 8,154
1704 - 1726
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 8,155
1226 - 1299
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 8,156
1240 - 1289
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 8,157
1787 - 1867
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 8,158
1760 - 1837
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 8,159
1604 - 1661
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 8,160
1600 BC - 1600 BC
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 8,161
1794 - 1860
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 8,162
600 BC - 491 BC
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 8,163
1655 - 1738
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 8,164
900 - 910
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 8,165
1814 - 1885
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 8,166
Among people born in 1604, Zheng Zhilong ranks 11. Before him are Claudia de' Medici, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, İslâm III Giray, Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, and Catherine of Brandenburg. After him are Antoine III de Gramont, Menasseh Ben Israel, Abraham Bosse, Heinrich Albert, and John Eliot. Among people deceased in 1661, Zheng Zhilong ranks 12. Before him are Vasile Lupu, Andrea Sacchi, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Jan Fyt, Louis Couperin, and Martino Martini. After him are Teimuraz I of Kakheti, Guru Har Rai, Pieter de Molijn, Pyotr Beketov, Thomas Fuller, and Shah Shuja.
1604 - 1648
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 5
1604 - 1679
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 6
1604 - 1675
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 7
1604 - 1654
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 8
1604 - 1639
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 9
1604 - 1649
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 10
1604 - 1661
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 11
1604 - 1678
HPI: 53.94
Rank: 12
1604 - 1657
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 13
1604 - 1676
HPI: 53.54
Rank: 14
1604 - 1651
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 15
1604 - 1690
HPI: 45.46
Rank: 16
1595 - 1661
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 6
1599 - 1661
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 7
1605 - 1661
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 8
1611 - 1661
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 9
1626 - 1661
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 10
1614 - 1661
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 11
1604 - 1661
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 12
1589 - 1661
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 13
1630 - 1661
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 14
1595 - 1661
HPI: 52.08
Rank: 15
1600 - 1661
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 16
1608 - 1661
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 17
1616 - 1661
HPI: 45.47
Rank: 18
Among people born in China, Zheng Zhilong ranks 572 out of 1,392. Before him are Rabban Bar Sauma (1220), Ding Ruchang (1836), Edward Yang (1947), Joseph Zen (1932), Zhang Zai (1020), and Kang Sheng (1898). After him are Yuan Longping (1930), Sengge Rinchen (1811), Ruan Lingyu (1910), Wang Ming (1904), Bada Shanren (1626), and Jin Midi (-134).
1220 - 1294
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 566
1836 - 1895
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 567
1947 - 2007
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 568
1932 - Present
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 569
1020 - 1077
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 570
1898 - 1975
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 571
1604 - 1661
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 572
1930 - 2021
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 573
1811 - 1865
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 574
1910 - 1935
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 575
1904 - 1974
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 576
1626 - 1705
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 577
134 BC - 86 BC
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 578
Among politicians born in China, Zheng Zhilong ranks 331. Before him are Yin Lihua (5), Chen Gongbo (1892), Ho Feng-Shan (1901), Li Zhanshu (1950), Konstantin Rodzaevsky (1907), and Kang Sheng (1898). After him are Sengge Rinchen (1811), Wang Ming (1904), Jin Midi (-134), Ragibagh Khan (1320), Deng Sui (81), and Xu Shichang (1855).
5 - 64
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 325
1892 - 1946
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 326
1901 - 1997
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 327
1950 - Present
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 328
1907 - 1946
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 329
1898 - 1975
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 330
1604 - 1661
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 331
1811 - 1865
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 332
1904 - 1974
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 333
134 BC - 86 BC
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 334
1320 - 1328
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 335
81 - 121
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 336
1855 - 1939
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 337