Top 20 Most Famous British Prime Ministers

Of the 53 British Prime Ministers, which have been named most often in these quizzes?
% choosing each PM as at October 2014
Where a person served more than one term, the longest term is stated
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term
Prime Minister
37
1908-1916
Herbert Asquith
53
1945-1951
Clement Attlee
95
1997-2007
Tony Blair
93
2007-2010
Gordon Brown
46
1976-1979
James Callaghan
93
2010-
David Cameron
74
1937-1940
Neville Chamberlain
94
1940-1945
Winston Churchill
43
1866-1868
Earl of Derby
57
1874-1880
Benjamin Disraeli
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term
Prime Minister
40
1955-1957
Anthony Eden
44
1868-1874
William Gladstone
52
1970-1974
Edward Heath
56
1916-1922
David Lloyd George
43
1957-1963
Harold Macmillan
86
1990-1997
John Major
39
1841-1846
Robert Peel
53
1783-1801
William Pitt
96
1979-1990
Margaret Thatcher
55
1964-1970
Harold Wilson
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Level 41
Nov 13, 2015
How is Herbert Asquith more famous that Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher?
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Level 76
Nov 13, 2015
He isn't
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Level 43
Jan 14, 2016
:'D
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Level 43
Jan 14, 2016
How do so few people know Gladstone? Massively influential!
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Level 36
Sep 21, 2016
Y U NO Duke of Wellington? He was prime minister, and extremely famous for beating Napoleon
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Level 79
Mar 14, 2020
Maybe many people (including me) didn't know he was also Prime Minister.
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Level 56
Jan 15, 2020
How did the earl of derby get in there?
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Level 79
Mar 14, 2020
Yes, extremely surprised more people named him than John Major.
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Level 39
Dec 1, 2021
It is in order of surnames