1966 - 2006
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (Arabic: أَبُو مُصْعَبٍ ٱلزَّرْقَاوِيُّ, ’Abū Muṣ‘ab az-Zarqāwī, Father of Musab, from Zarqa; ; October 30, 1966 – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh (أَحْمَدُ فَضِيلِ ٱلنَّزَالِ ٱلْخَلَايْلَةَ, ’Aḥmad Faḍīl an-Nazāl al-Ḫalāyla), was a Jordanian jihadist who ran a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. He became known after going to Iraq and being responsible for a series of bombings, beheadings, and attacks during the Iraq War, reportedly "turning an insurgency against US troops" in Iraq "into a Shia–Sunni civil war". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has received more than 4,144,775 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the 96th most popular extremist (down from 87th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Jordan and the most popular Jordanian Extremist.
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Among extremists, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ranks 96 out of 209. Before him are Wilhelm Voigt, Aileen Wuornos, Matija Gubec, David Berkowitz, Michel Fourniret, and Jacques Mesrine. After him are Whitey Bulger, Charles Whitman, Joachim Kroll, Luciano Leggio, Sirhan Sirhan, and Dennis Nilsen.
1849 - 1922
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 90
1956 - 2002
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 91
1538 - 1573
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 92
1953 - Present
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 93
1942 - 2021
HPI: 57.07
Rank: 94
1936 - 1979
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 95
1966 - 2006
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 96
1929 - 2018
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 97
1941 - 1966
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 98
1933 - 1991
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 99
1925 - 1993
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 100
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 101
1945 - 2018
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 102
Among people born in 1966, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ranks 36. Before him are Téa Leoni, Cindy Crawford, Julen Lopetegui, Stefan Edberg, Gianfranco Zola, and Cláudio Taffarel. After him are Sinéad O'Connor, Enrique Peña Nieto, Kentaro Miura, Yoshihiro Togashi, Erdoğan Atalay, and Emmanuelle Seigner. Among people deceased in 2006, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ranks 84. Before him are Paul Marcinkus, Billy Preston, Telê Santana, Sven Nykvist, Peter Benchley, and Jane Jacobs. After him are Jack Warden, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Walerian Borowczyk, Robert Plutchik, Peter Norman, and Prince George William of Hanover.
1966 - Present
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 30
1966 - Present
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 31
1966 - Present
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 32
1966 - Present
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 33
1966 - Present
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 34
1966 - Present
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 35
1966 - 2006
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 36
1966 - 2023
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 37
1966 - Present
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 38
1966 - 2021
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 39
1966 - Present
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 40
1966 - Present
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 41
1966 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 42
1922 - 2006
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 78
1946 - 2006
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 79
1931 - 2006
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 80
1922 - 2006
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 81
1940 - 2006
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 82
1916 - 2006
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 83
1966 - 2006
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 84
1920 - 2006
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 85
1925 - 2006
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 86
1923 - 2006
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 87
1927 - 2006
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 88
1942 - 2006
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 89
1915 - 2006
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 90
Among people born in Jordan, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ranks 12 out of 44. Before him are Menippus (-290), Abdullah II of Jordan (1962), Nicomachus (60), Philodemus (-110), Balak (null), and Simon bar Giora (100). After him are Jair (-1000), Meleager of Gadara (-130), Phinehas (-1300), Fouad Twal (1940), Fayez Tarawneh (1949), and Nayef Hawatmeh (1938).
290 BC - 260 BC
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 6
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 7
60 - 120
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 8
110 BC - 35 BC
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 9
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 10
100 - 70
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 11
1966 - 2006
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 12
1000 BC - Present
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 13
130 BC - 60 BC
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 14
1300 BC - Present
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 15
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 16
1949 - 2021
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 17
1938 - Present
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 18
Among extremists born in Jordan, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ranks 1.