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Ahmad Shah Massoud

1953 - 2001

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Ahmad Shah Massoud (Dari: احمد شاه مسعود, Persian pronunciation: [ʔæhmæd ʃɒːh mæsʔuːd]; September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician. He was a guerrilla commander during the resistance against the Soviet occupation during the Soviet–Afghan War from 1979 to 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad Shah Massoud has received more than 3,907,426 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Ahmad Shah Massoud is the 1,548th most popular politician (down from 852nd in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 7th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Afghan Politician.

Ahmad Shah Massoud was a military and political leader in Afghanistan. He was the military commander of the Northern Alliance, a coalition of Afghan forces opposed to the Taliban.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ahmad Shah Massoud ranks 1,548 out of 19,576. Before him are Bona Sforza, Otto of Bavaria, Béla III of Hungary, Bumin Qaghan, Khaled Mashal, and Mohammed Zahir Shah. After him are Soong Mei-ling, Temür Khan, Vallabhbhai Patel, Khasekhemwy, Qutuz, and Harsha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Ahmad Shah Massoud ranks 13. Before him are Brigitte Macron, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Herta Müller, Isabelle Huppert, Kim Basinger, and Richard Clayderman. After him are John Malkovich, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Richard Stallman, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Teresa Teng, and Benazir Bhutto. Among people deceased in 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud ranks 12. Before him are Claude Shannon, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Jorge Amado, Jack Lemmon, Herbert A. Simon, and Léopold Sédar Senghor. After him are Sabiha Gökçen, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Christiaan Barnard, Fred Hoyle, Wilhelm Mohnke, and Iannis Xenakis.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud ranks 12 out of 177. Before him are Abu Dawood (817), Humayun (1508), Mahmud of Ghazni (971), Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441), Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (1837), and Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914). After him are Muhammad of Ghor (1160), Hafizullah Amin (1929), Amanullah Khan (1892), Babrak Karmal (1929), Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940), and Mohammed Daoud Khan (1909).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud ranks 6. Before him are Abbas the Great (1571), Hamid Karzai (1957), Humayun (1508), Mahmud of Ghazni (971), and Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914). After him are Muhammad of Ghor (1160), Hafizullah Amin (1929), Amanullah Khan (1892), Babrak Karmal (1929), Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940), and Mohammed Daoud Khan (1909).

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