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Clement Attlee

1883 - 1967

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Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. Attlee was Deputy Prime Minister during the wartime coalition government under Winston Churchill, and Leader of the Opposition on three occasions: from 1935 to 1940, briefly in 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. He remains the longest serving Labour leader. Attlee was born into an upper middle class family, the son of a wealthy London solicitor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clement Attlee is the 1,439th most popular politician (down from 1,027th in 2019), the 385th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 230th in 2019) and the 90th most popular British Politician.

Clement Attlee was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951. He is most famous for leading the Labour Party to victory in the 1945 general election, and for overseeing the creation of the National Health Service.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Clement Attlee ranks 1,439 out of 19,576Before him are Valdemar IV of Denmark, Trygve Lie, Aurangzeb, Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, and Petronius Maximus. After him are Samo, Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, Jiang Qing, Edith Wilson, Vladimir II Monomakh, and Antiochus V Eupator.

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Among people born in 1883, Clement Attlee ranks 20Before him are Norman Haworth, Otto Heinrich Warburg, Grigory Zinoviev, Pierre Laval, José Ortega y Gasset, and Morihei Ueshiba. After him are Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Edgard Varèse, Lon Chaney, Theo van Doesburg, Semyon Budyonny, and Maurice Utrillo. Among people deceased in 1967, Clement Attlee ranks 17Before him are Spencer Tracy, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Vladimir Komarov, Edward Hopper, Zoltán Kodály, and Mir Osman Ali Khan. After him are Claude Rains, Ilse Koch, André Maurois, Jack Ruby, Richard Kuhn, and Ilya Ehrenburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Clement Attlee ranks 385 out of 8,785Before him are Arthur Evans (1851), Robert Fripp (1946), Roger Penrose (1931), William Wordsworth (1770), James George Frazer (1854), and Saint Walpurga (710). After him are Francis Galton (1822), Frederic Leighton (1830), David Prowse (1935), Graham Greene (1904), Richard Henderson (1945), and Emmeline Pankhurst (1858).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Clement Attlee ranks 90Before him are Tony Blair (1953), Edward the Elder (871), Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803), Richard of Cornwall (1209), Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), and David Lloyd George (1863). After him are Ælfweard of Wessex (904), Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (1945), Nigel Farage (1964), Harthacnut (1018), Liz Truss (1975), and Roger Williams (1603).