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Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin

1914 - 1999

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Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, (30 July 1914 – 25 April 1999) was an Irish journalist, author, sports official, and the sixth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), seeing from 1972 to 1980. He succeeded his uncle as Baron Killanin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1927, when he was 12, which allowed him to sit in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster as Lord Killanin upon turning 21. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin is the 8,904th most popular politician (up from 10,437th in 2019), the 1,963rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,150th in 2019) and the 321st most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin ranks 8,904 out of 19,576Before him are Rabah Bitat, Henri Konan Bédié, Prince Ferdinand Pius, Duke of Calabria, Bahadur Shah I, Shujaat Hussain, and Mieszko I Tanglefoot. After him are Kusaila, Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, Regina Jonas, Prithvirajsing Roopun, Alphonse Massamba-Débat, and False Dmitry III.

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Among people born in 1914, Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin ranks 129Before him are Juan Carlos Onganía, Joe Rantz, Poul Hartling, Alberto Lattuada, Ilmari Juutilainen, and Saul Steinberg. After him are Sisowath Sirik Matak, Unity Mitford, Edward Schillebeeckx, E. G. Marshall, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., and Vladimir Chelomey. Among people deceased in 1999, Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin ranks 86Before him are Pierre Clémenti, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Sebastian Haffner, Alf Ramsey, Ilmari Juutilainen, and Saul Steinberg. After him are Yuri Knorozov, Roy Chiao, Sylvia Sidney, Peko Dapčević, Michel Petrucciani, and DeForest Kelley.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin ranks 1,963 out of 8,785Before him are Gary Brooker (1945), Dan McCafferty (1946), Robert T. A. Innes (1861), Ralph Richardson (1902), Richard Parkes Bonington (1801), and Tobias Smollett (1721). After him are John Maynard Smith (1920), Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Nick Simper (1945), John Boorman (1933), Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842), and F. H. Bradley (1846).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin ranks 321Before him are Lulach (1030), Gytha of Wessex (1053), Edward the Exile (1016), Charles Booth (1840), Princess Mary of Great Britain (1723), and Ine of Wessex (700). After him are Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1870), William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738), Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776), Gerry Adams (1948), Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886), and Herbert Pitman (1877).