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Aga Khan IV

1936 - 2025

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Prince Karim Al-Husseini Aga Khan (Arabic: شاه كريم الحسيني, romanized: Shāh Karīm al-Ḥusaynī; 13 December 1936 – 4 February 2025), known as the Aga Khan IV (Persian: آقاخان چهارم, romanized: Āqā Khān Chahārom), was a religious leader, businessman, and socialite best known as the 49th imam of Isma'ilism from 1957 until his death in 2025. He inherited the Nizari imamate and the title of Aga Khan at the age of 20 upon the death of his grandfather, the Aga Khan III. He was also known by the religious title Mawlānā Hazar Imam by his Isma'ili followers. The Aga Khan's net worth was estimated at over US$13.3 billion by Vanity Fair in 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aga Khan IV has received more than 6,600,023 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Aga Khan IV is the 62nd most popular businessperson (down from 56th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 49th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Businessperson.

Aga Khan IV is most famous for being the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim community.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Aga Khan IV ranks 62 out of 847. Before him are Henri Nestlé, Robert Bosch, Martin Cooper, Sergei Diaghilev, Roman Abramovich, and Ronald Wayne. After him are Thomas Cook, Robert Kardashian, Helena Rubinstein, Kiichiro Toyoda, Sung Jae-gi, and Lee Byung-chul.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Aga Khan IV ranks 33. Before him are David Carradine, Michael Landon, Ferid Murad, Richard Bach, Georges Perec, and Roy Orbison. After him are Glen Campbell, Tariq Aziz, Robert Woodrow Wilson, Jim Clark, Burt Reynolds, and Albert Finney. Among people deceased in 2025, Aga Khan IV ranks 6. Before him are David Lynch, Marianne Faithfull, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Sam Nujoma, and Horst Köhler. After him are Denis Law, Ágnes Keleti, Joan Plowright, Dražen Dalipagić, Costas Simitis, and Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Aga Khan IV ranks 59 out of 1,015. Before him are Niklaus Wirth (1934), Henry Fuseli (1741), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Albert I of Germany (1255), and Michel Mayor (1942). After him are Paul Hermann Müller (1899), H. R. Giger (1940), Daniel Bovet (1907), Emil Jannings (1884), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), and Hans Küng (1928).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Switzerland

Among businesspeople born in Switzerland, Aga Khan IV ranks 3. Before him are Sepp Blatter (1936), and Joan Gamper (1877). After him are Gianni Infantino (1970), Louis Chevrolet (1878), César Ritz (1850), Peter Sauber (1943), Julius Maggi (1846), Meyer Guggenheim (1828), Umberto Agnelli (1934), Daniel Peter (1836), and Paul Sacher (1906).

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