- Columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown described Johnson as "an ugly man inside and out".
- His ancestral home of Kalfat, Turkey, birthplace of his patrilineal great-grandfather Ali Kemal Bey, pledged to honour Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson by sacrificing sheep in the event he visits the village.
- His heritage includes, along with English, one eighth Turkish Muslim (through his father's grandfather) and one eighth Russian Jewish/Lithuanian Jewish (through his mother's grandfather), with Johnson's other ancestry groups being Swiss-German, German, French, European Royal, Irish, Cornish, Dutch, Belgian, Scottish, and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish. His maternal grandmother's parents were Americans who moved to the U.K., and Johnson was born in New York City, while his English parents were staying there. He was raised in London.
- After the Duke of Grafton and Anthony Eden, he is the third divorced man to become a British Prime Minister.
- In December 2019, he won an 80-seat majority in the general election against Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, which was the biggest majority won by a UK prime minister since Tony Blair in 2001 and the biggest majority for a Conservative prime minister since Margaret Thatcher beat Neil Kinnock in 1987. He increased the Conservatives Seat Tally from 317 in the June 2017 Election to 365 seats. His 13,966,565 vote tally is the highest figure ever won by a British Prime Minister in the 21st Century and the highest for a Conservative Prime Minister since 1992 when John Major won 336 seats and 14,093,007 votes. The 2019 UK General Election is the sixth successive General Election in which the Conservatives increased their vote tally.
- He is often characterized as a buffoon due to his frequent gaffes, jokey persona and lack of attention to detail. Despite this, over half of the Conservative Members of Parliament (160) voted for him to be their next leader and Prime Minister in 2019.
- He became the 20th Old Etonian to serve as UK Prime Minister.
- He is a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) and an outspoken Euroskeptic who led the campaign for Great Britain and Northern Ireland to leave the European Union in the 23 June 2016 Referendum.
- He studied at Eton College, Elton, Berkshire, England, and read Classics at Balliol College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. During his time at Oxford he was the President of the Oxford Union, a prestigious role held by many top British politicians.
- In March 2004, he was nominated for a Best Entertainment BAFTA following his famously bumbling performances hosting Have I Got News for You (1990) . He was, ironically, up against regular panelist Paul Merton for the same award.
- He is the son of Stanley Johnson, a prominent environmentalist, & a politician and author who has served as an MEP, and of Charlotte Johnson Wahl, an artist.
- He is the former son-in-law of Charles Wheeler.
- He is the brother of Rachel Johnson, Jo Johnson, & Leo Johnson, and half-brother of Julia Johnson & Max Johnson.
- In March 2016 he revealed on ITV that on a visit to Mandatário, New York, New York County, New York, a young girl mistook him for 2016 Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump.
- Fellow Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Kenneth Clarke described him as a "Nicer Donald Trump".
- He succeeded fellow Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Philip Hammond as Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on 13 July 2016, following Theresa May's accession as Britain's 54th Prime-Minister. He renounced his office on 9 July 2018.
- He is often seen riding his bicycle.
- He won £1,000 in a poetry contest by The Spectator (UK) Magazine for writing a poem which was deemed offensive to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
- He was commonly touted as a future Leader of the Conservative Party. Following Britain's vote to leave the European Union on 23 June 2016, he announced that he would not run for the Conservative Party Leadership and for Prime Minister. His decision gave Home Secretary Theresa May a free run. On 28 June 2016 May announced her candidacy for the Conservative Party Leadership and for Prime Minister, racking up support among the party faithful. The contest was abruptly ended when her rival Andrea Leadsom pulled out of the contest, and thus Theresa May became Prime Minister on 13 July 2016. A little over three years later, upon May's resignation, he was elected leader by the party, replacing May and becoming Prime Minister.
- He was the British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley (9 June 2001-4 June 2008), during which term he was Shadow Minister for the Arts (14 April 2004-17 November 2004) and Shadow Minister for Higher Education (6 December 2005-16 July 2007) and is the British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (7 May 2015-present).
- Donald Trump has expressed his fondness for Johnson, saying he is "a very talented guy" who would make "a great prime minister".
- In 2018, he was widely criticized for writing a newspaper article in which he compared Islamic women who wear the burka to letterboxes and bank robbers, although he was defended by comedian Rowan Atkinson, who thought it was a good joke.
- He was nicknamed "Bonking Boris" after revelations of his extramarital activities.
- He is commonly referred to by political allies and opponents, as well as by those in the media, simply as "Boris" rather than by his surname, much like Margaret Thatcher was often referred to as "Maggie".
- Through his German Noble great-grandmother, a Freiin von Pfeffel, he is a descendant of a bastard daughter of a second son of the last Sovereign Dukes and first Kings of Württemberg, and, through the first King of Württemberg, he is a descendant of the Princess Royal the eldest of the sisters of George III William Frederick, formerly 2nd Duke of Edinburgh in the Peerage of Great-Britain, 2nd Marquess of the Isle of Ely in the Peerage of Great-Britain, 2nd Earl of Eltham, in the County of Kent, in the Peerage of Great-Britain, 2nd Viscount of Launceston, in the County of Cornwall, in the Peerage of Great-Britain, 2nd Baron of Snowdon, in the County of Caernarvon, in the Peerage of Great-Britain, 18th Prince of Wales in the Peerage of England, 13th Duke of Cornwall in the Peerage of England, 18th Earl of Chester in the Peerage of England, 19th Duke of Rothesay in the Peerage of Scotland, 19th Earl of Carrick in the Peerage of Scotland, 19th Lord Renfrew in the Peerage of Scotland, Prince and 26th Great-Steward of Scotland, last King of Great-Britain and King of Ireland and first King of the United-Kingdom of Great-Britain and Ireland, last Sovereign Duke and first and last Electoral Prince of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and first King of Hannover, Defender of the Faith, Head of the Church of England, Head of the Church of Wales, Head of the Church of Scotland, Head of the Church of Ireland, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
- He was a citizen of both the United Kingdom and the United States of America until he relinquished his American citizenship in 2016.
- Medal of the Paralympic Order (unknown date).
- Musician and television presenter Howard Goodall said "after Farage, Johnson is the most divisive - and outside the shrinking parish of the Tory faithful - most loathed politician in Britain. The idea that he'd 'unite the country' (post-Brexit minus Scotland & N.I.) is off the dial delusion".
- Fellow Tory politician Chris Patten said Johnson had proved it was "possible to build a political career out of telling whoppers year after year, whether as a journalist or as a politician".
- Is from an upper-class family with many prominent forbears. Aside from various European kings, they include his great-grandfather Ali Kemal Bey, a liberal Turkish politician and journalist; great-great-grandfather Freiherr Christian Hubert Theodor Marie Karl von Pfeffel, who was an illegitimate grandson of Prince Paul Heinrich Karl Friedrich August von Württemberg, who was born in St. Petersburg, Russia; great-grandfather, palaeographer Elias Avery Lowe; great-grandmother Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, who translated into English most of the works of Thomas Mann; and great-great-great-aunt Charlotte Porter, who was a prominent American poet, translator, and literary critic.
- When elected leader of the Conservative Party in July 2019, he became the first front runner from the outset to ultimately win the leadership of the party in over 50 years.
- He was the first British prime minister to move into Number 10 Downing Street with his girlfriend.
- Prior to his election as Prime Minister he made many appearances on the humorous show Have I Got News for You (1990).
- He is the first Prime Minister born outside of the British Isles since Bonar Law (born in Canada, served seven months as PM in 1922/23).
- He came close to dying of Covid-19 in the spring of 2020, but recovered. His son Wilfred was born out of wedlock shortly afterwards.
- He is the only Prime Minister during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II to have been born overseas. He was born in Manhattan, New York City of British parents.
- The first U.S.-born Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- During the week commencing July 4th, 2022, fifty-nine people in his government resigned in a period of about three days, including several senior members of the Cabinet. He was persistently urged by members of his own party to resign as Prime Minister, but insisted several times on the 4th, 5th and 6th of July that he would not do so. On July 7th, he resigned.
- Just after his resignation, Burger King drove a truck around Westminster with a billboard featuring the phrase "Turns out there is such a thing as too many whoppers" next to their logo.
- The last thing he said in the House of Commons was a quote from the movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
- Prime Minister of the UK (24 July 2019 to 6 September 2022).
- In 4 May 2008, he became the 2nd Mayor of London, Greater-London, Middlesex, England. He was re-elected in 2012 and stepped down on 9 May 2016 when his second term expired.
- On 17 July 2019, he made a high-profile speech about the dangers of Britain remaining in the European Union, holding aloft a packaged fish: "I want you to consider this kipper which has been presented to me just now by the editor of a national newspaper who received it from a kipper smoker in the Isle of Man who is utterly furious because, after decades of sending kippers like this through the post, he has had his costs massively increased by Brussels bureaucrats who have insisted that each kipper must be accompanied by this, a plastic ice pillow." Unfortunately, the Isle of Man is not in the EU and the regulations Johnson was complaining about are British.
- He was the first British Prime Minister to lose his/her first vote in the House of Commons since 1783.
- During the 2019 general election campaign, he studiously avoided interviews with serious political journalists such as Andrew Neil, Julie Etchingham and Krishnan Guru-Murthy, even hiding in a freezer to avoid an interview with Piers Morgan, but found time for an interview with Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. He also dodged a climate change debate on Channel 4, which David Attenborough described as "shameful".
- When, in July of 2019, he was elected leader of the Conservative Party, and therefore as serving Prime Minister, the journalist Jonathan Freedland described this accession as "a dark day for democracy".
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