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John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry

1844 - 1900

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John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (20 July 1844 – 31 January 1900) was a British nobleman of the Victorian era, remembered for his atheism, his outspoken views, his brutish manner, for lending his name to the "Queensberry Rules" that form the basis of modern boxing, and for his role in the downfall of the Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry is the 14,647th most popular politician (down from 14,507th in 2024), the 3,582nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,619th in 2019) and the 840th most popular Italian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry ranks 14,648 out of 19,576. Before him are Publius Claudius Pulcher, Marc Forné Molné, Nikola Šainović, Nasser Al-Sabah, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Chang Sang, and Borislav Paravac. After him are Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi, Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, Ashur-nadin-ahhe I, Khosrov III the Small, and Manuel Scorza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry ranks 91. Before him are Klaus Berntsen, William Robert Brooks, Vladan Đorđević, Lewis Powell, Georgios Theotokis, and Numa Droz. After him are Dankmar Adler, Marie Hankel, Marie Spartali Stillman, Vassily Maximov, Arthur Gardiner Butler, and Leonid Sobolev. Among people deceased in 1900, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry ranks 82. Before him are Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Catherine Wolfe Bruce, Dmitry Grigorovich, Émile Blanchard, and Ali Shah Durrani. After him are Dankmar Adler, Antoine Vollon, Hannibal Goodwin, Nicolae Crețulescu, Albert Samain, and Charles Piazzi Smyth.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry ranks 3,584 out of 5,161. Before him are Gino Cappello (1920), Giuseppe Veronese (1854), Livio Berruti (1939), Clemente Biondetti (1898), Osvaldo Fattori (1922), Antonio Pietrangeli (1919), and Nanni Loy (1925). After him are Giovanni Giorgi (1871), Lido Vieri (1939), Riccardo Carapellese (1922), Romeo Bertini (1893), and Guido Castelnuovo (1865).

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Among POLITICIANS In Italy

Among politicians born in Italy, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry ranks 840. Before him are Ordelafo Faliero (1100), Aiulf I of Benevento (650), Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer (1790), Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826), Gaius Marcius Rutilus (-350), and Titus Didius (-200). After him are Luis Durnwalder (1941), Publius Sempronius Tuditanus (-300), Pietro Polani (1098), Liberius (465), Andrea Montermini (1964), and Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus (138).

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