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Tony Benn

1925 - 2014

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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), known between 1960 and 1963 as Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician and political activist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the Member of Parliament for Bristol South East and Chesterfield for 47 of the 51 years between 1950 and 2001. He later served as President of the Stop the War Coalition from 2001 to 2014. The son of a Liberal and later Labour Party politician, Benn was born in Westminster and privately educated at Westminster School. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tony Benn is the 15,093rd most popular politician (down from 14,716th in 2019), the 4,018th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,697th in 2019) and the 529th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tony Benn ranks 15,093 out of 19,576. Before him are Publius Aelius Paetus, Tomás Gomensoro Albín, Ivan Osterman, Miguel Antonio Caro, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, and Charlie Whiting. After him are A. K. Fazlul Huq, Oskar Fischer, Cheddi Jagan, Nina Agadzhanova, Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, and Roselyne Bachelot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Tony Benn ranks 378. Before him are Miklós Szilvási, Roque Olsen, Adelina Gutiérrez, Art Larsen, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, and Sándor Gellér. After him are Toma Caragiu, Alain Peyrefitte, Mal Waldron, John Baptist Wu, Ron Tauranac, and Ruth First. Among people deceased in 2014, Tony Benn ranks 350. Before him are Frankie Knuckles, Juanita Moore, Tony Crook, Ara Shiraz, Sid Caesar, and Mary Stewart. After him are Bobby Womack, Billie Whitelaw, Cheo Feliciano, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Sándor Rozsnyói, and Bengt Eriksson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tony Benn ranks 4,019 out of 8,785. Before him are Cilla Black (1943), Linda Grant (1951), Michael Rennie (1909), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), Alan Woods (1944), and Charlie Whiting (1952). After him are William Townsend Aiton (1766), Ian McNeice (1950), Peter Scott (1909), G. M. Trevelyan (1876), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), and Edward John Eyre (1815).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Tony Benn ranks 529. Before him are Zac Goldsmith (1975), Prince Frederick of Great Britain (1750), Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887), Grantley Goulding (1874), Hywel Dda (880), and Charlie Whiting (1952). After him are John Shakespeare (1530), George Galloway (1954), Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough (1681), Gerrard Winstanley (1609), Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife (1849), and Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain (1741).

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