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Aafia Siddiqui

1972 - Today

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Aafia Siddiqui (also spelled Afiya; Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani neuroscientist and educator who gained international attention following her conviction in the United States and is currently serving an 86-year sentence for attempted murder and other felonies at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in Fort Worth, Texas. Siddiqui was born in Pakistan to a Sunni Muslim family. For a period from 1990, she studied in the United States and obtained from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a B.S. in biology, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis University in 2001. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aafia Siddiqui has received more than 4,476,202 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Aafia Siddiqui is the 51st most popular mafioso (up from 61st in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 121st in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Mafioso.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Aafia Siddiqui ranks 51 out of 70. Before her are Russell Bufalino, Lepke Buchalter, Dutch Schultz, Sammy Gravano, Belle Starr, and Teresa Claramunt Creus. After her are Joseph Colombo, Tony Accardo, Joe Profaci, Carlos Marcello, Jonathan Pollard, and Assata Shakur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Aafia Siddiqui ranks 98. Before her are Virgilijus Alekna, Amrullah Saleh, Goran Višnjić, Thandie Newton, Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice, and Julie Benz. After her are Bae Yong-joon, Billie Joe Armstrong, Mia Hamm, Gabriel Macht, Ari Behn, and Rebecca Romijn.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Aafia Siddiqui ranks 62 out of 217. Before her are Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919), Milkha Singh (1935), Francis Younghusband (1863), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Farooq Leghari (1940), and Manoj Kumar (1937). After her are Gulzar (1934), Duleep Singh (1838), Malala Yousafzai (1997), Yash Chopra (1932), Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), and Prithviraj Kapoor (1906).

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Among MAFIOSOS In Pakistan

Among mafiosos born in Pakistan, Aafia Siddiqui ranks 1. 

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