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Adnan Khashoggi

1935 - 2017

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Adnan Khashoggi (Arabic: عدنان خاشقجي‎, Turkish: Adnan Kaşıkçı; 25 July 1935 – 6 June 2017) was a Saudi businessman known for his lavish business deals and lifestyle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adnan Khashoggi has received more than 2,797,344 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Adnan Khashoggi is the 87th most popular businessperson (up from 90th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (down from 82nd in 2019) and the most popular Saudi Arabian Businessperson.

Adnan Khashoggi is most famous for being a Saudi Arabian billionaire arms dealer.

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  • 2.8M

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  • 70.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Adnan Khashoggi ranks 87 out of 604. Before him are Robert Guérin, Liliane Bettencourt, Lorenzo Sanz, Christophe Plantin, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, and William Randolph Hearst. After him are Dietmar Hopp, Boris Berezovsky, Flavio Briatore, Michele Ferrero, Larry Ellison, and Ferdinand Piëch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Adnan Khashoggi ranks 40. Before him are Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Maj Sjöwall, Giya Kancheli, Miroslav Blažević, Jim Peebles, and Danilo Kiš. After him are David Harvey, Akira Kitaguchi, Wim Duisenberg, Harrison Schmitt, Artur Rasizade, and Elsa Martinelli. Among people deceased in 2017, Adnan Khashoggi ranks 47. Before him are Emma Morano, Liu Xiaobo, Harry Dean Stanton, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Danielle Darrieux, and John Surtees. After him are Jonathan Demme, Jean Rochefort, Jacque Fresco, George Andrew Olah, Jake LaMotta, and Derek Walcott.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Adnan Khashoggi ranks 91 out of 222. Before him are Zayd ibn Ali (695), Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah (637), Abdullah ibn Saba' (700), Juwayriyya bint al-Harith (608), Ibrahim ibn Muhammad (630), and Muhammad bin Qasim (695). After him are Jamal Khashoggi (1958), Al-Wathiq (812), Umm Kulthum bint Ali (630), Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud (1933), Muhammad bin Saud (1710), and Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1928).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Saudi Arabia

Among businesspeople born in Saudi Arabia, Adnan Khashoggi ranks 1. After him are Al-Waleed bin Talal (1955) and Ameera al-Taweel (1983).

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