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Abul Kalam Azad

1888 - 1958

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Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al-Hussaini Azad ((); 11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958) was an Indian independence activist, writer and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. Following India's independence, he became the First Minister of Education in the Indian government. He is commonly remembered as Maulana Azad; the word Maulana is an honorific meaning 'Our Master' and he had adopted Azad (Free) as his pen name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abul Kalam Azad has received more than 4,350,442 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Abul Kalam Azad is the 2,667th most popular politician (up from 3,885th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (up from 111th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Saudi Arabian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abul Kalam Azad ranks 2,667 out of 19,576. Before him are Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Eadwig, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, Emperor Kōan, Hayk, and Altan Khan. After him are Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Marie José of Belgium, Alec Douglas-Home, Jules Ferry, Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria, and Iziaslav I of Kiev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Abul Kalam Azad ranks 36. Before him are F. W. Murnau, Selman Waksman, Friedrich Olbricht, Andrei Tupolev, Anton Makarenko, and Inge Lehmann. After him are Katherine Mansfield, Georges Bernanos, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Vladimir K. Zworykin, Ossip Zadkine, and Frances Marion. Among people deceased in 1958, Abul Kalam Azad ranks 21. Before him are Maurice de Vlaminck, Lion Feuchtwanger, Maurice Gamelin, G. E. Moore, Georges Rouault, and Giacomo Balla. After him are Ernst Heinkel, Alfred Weber, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, André Bazin, Kim Tu-bong, and Tyrone Power.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Abul Kalam Azad ranks 105 out of 354. Before him are Usama ibn Zayd (615), Asmā' bint Abi Bakr (595), Uqba ibn Nafi (622), Al-Wathiq (812), Abdullah ibn Salam (550), and Adnan Khashoggi (1935). After him are Jabir ibn Abd Allah (607), Abdallah ibn Sa'd (650), Jamal Khashoggi (1958), Rayhana bint Zayd (600), Fatimah bint Asad (555), and Ali of Hejaz (1879).

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Among POLITICIANS In Saudi Arabia

Among politicians born in Saudi Arabia, Abul Kalam Azad ranks 32. Before him are Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (674), Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf (661), Muhammad bin Saud (1710), Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (576), Asmā' bint Abi Bakr (595), and Al-Wathiq (812). After him are Rayhana bint Zayd (600), Ali of Hejaz (1879), Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz (1910), Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1928), Ghazi of Iraq (1912), and Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy (600).

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