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Margaret Thatcher

1925 - 2013

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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position. As prime minister, she implemented policies that came to be known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Thatcher is the 174th most popular politician (down from 101st in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 29th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Politician.

Margaret Thatcher is most famous for being the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Margaret Thatcher ranks 174 out of 19,576. Before her are Mary, Queen of Scots, Mark Antony, Vespasian, Skanderbeg, John Major, and Amenhotep III. After her are Yasser Arafat, Khafra, Theodosius I, Honorius, Ecgberht, King of Wessex, and Baldwin IV of Jerusalem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Margaret Thatcher ranks 2. Before her is Malcolm X. After her are Pol Pot, Barbara Bush, Richard Burton, B.B. King, Paul Newman, Yukio Mishima, Mahathir Mohamad, Patrice Lumumba, Robert Edwards, and Gilles Deleuze. Among people deceased in 2013, Margaret Thatcher ranks 2. Before her is Nelson Mandela. After her are Mikhail Kalashnikov, Robert Edwards, Hugo Chávez, Jorge Rafael Videla, Donald A. Glaser, Pran, Doris Lessing, Heinrich Rohrer, Võ Nguyên Giáp, and Frederick Sanger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher ranks 58 out of 8,785. Before her are Mary, Queen of Scots (1542), J. J. Thomson (1856), James Prescott Joule (1818), Anthony Hopkins (1937), John Major (1943), and Mary of Teck (1867). After her are Ecgberht, King of Wessex (800), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), John Lennon (1940), John Dalton (1766), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), and David Hume (1711).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher ranks 25. Before her are Queen Victoria (1819), Mary II of England (1662), Edward V of England (1470), Mary I of England (1516), Mary, Queen of Scots (1542), and John Major (1943). After her are Ecgberht, King of Wessex (800), Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900), James V of Scotland (1512), William Ewart Gladstone (1809), Olav V of Norway (1903), and Edward the Martyr (962).

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