1953 - 2001
Ahmad Shah Massoud (Dari Persian/Pashto: احمد شاه مسعود; September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001) was an Afghan politician and military commander. He was a powerful guerrilla commander during the resistance against the Soviet occupation between 1979 and 1989. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad Shah Massoud has received more than 1,537,839 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Ahmad Shah Massoud is the 1,576th most popular politician (up from 1,959th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 14th in 2019) and the 7th 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.
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Among politicians, Ahmad Shah Massoud ranks 1,576 out of 15,710. Before him are Albert Lebrun, Amr ibn Hishām, John II of Aragon, Getúlio Vargas, Elizabeth of Portugal, and Edward, King of Portugal. After him are Viktor Orbán, Emeric, King of Hungary, Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, Werner von Fritsch, Alexios II Komnenos, and Bảo Đại.
1871 - 1950
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 1,570
570 - 624
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 1,571
1398 - 1479
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 1,572
1882 - 1954
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 1,573
1271 - 1336
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 1,574
1391 - 1438
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 1,575
1953 - 2001
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 1,576
1963 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 1,577
1174 - 1204
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 1,578
1662 - 1726
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 1,579
1880 - 1939
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 1,580
1169 - 1183
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 1,581
1913 - 1997
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 1,582
Among people born in 1953, Ahmad Shah Massoud ranks 10. Before him are Pierce Brosnan, Norodom Sihamoni, Herta Müller, Kim Basinger, Jeffrey Epstein, and Brigitte Macron. After him are Richard Stallman, Isabelle Huppert, Richard Clayderman, Tony Blair, Jim Jarmusch, and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Among people deceased in 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud ranks 15. Before him are Sabiha Gökçen, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Jack Lemmon, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Christiaan Barnard, and Iannis Xenakis. After him are Ernst Gombrich, William Hanna, Fred Hoyle, Robert Ludlum, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, and Alberto Korda.
1953 - Present
HPI: 76.88
Rank: 4
1953 - Present
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 5
1953 - Present
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 6
1953 - Present
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 7
1953 - 2019
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 8
1953 - Present
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 9
1953 - 2001
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 10
1953 - Present
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 11
1953 - Present
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 12
1953 - Present
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 13
1953 - Present
HPI: 73.82
Rank: 14
1953 - Present
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 15
1953 - Present
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 16
1913 - 2001
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 9
1932 - 2001
HPI: 75.44
Rank: 10
1925 - 2001
HPI: 75.09
Rank: 11
1906 - 2001
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 12
1922 - 2001
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 13
1922 - 2001
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 14
1953 - 2001
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 15
1909 - 2001
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 16
1910 - 2001
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 17
1915 - 2001
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 18
1927 - 2001
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 19
1939 - 2001
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 20
1928 - 2001
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 21
Among people born in Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud ranks 12 out of 108. Before him are Jami (1414), Abu Dawood (817), Humayun (1508), Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914), Hafizullah Amin (1929), and Mahmud of Ghazni (971). After him are Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940), Mohammed Daoud Khan (1909), Babrak Karmal (1929), Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Amanullah Khan (1892), and Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (1450).
1414 - 1492
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 6
817 - 888
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 7
1508 - 1556
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 8
1914 - 2007
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 9
1929 - 1979
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 10
971 - 1030
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 11
1953 - 2001
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 12
1940 - 2011
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 13
1909 - 1978
HPI: 73.33
Rank: 14
1929 - 1996
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 15
1917 - 1979
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 16
1892 - 1960
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 17
1450 - 1535
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 18
Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud ranks 7. Before him are Abbas the Great (1571), Hamid Karzai (1957), Humayun (1508), Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914), Hafizullah Amin (1929), and Mahmud of Ghazni (971). After him are Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940), Mohammed Daoud Khan (1909), Babrak Karmal (1929), Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Amanullah Khan (1892), and Ahmad Shah Durrani (1722).
1571 - 1629
HPI: 80.59
Rank: 1
1957 - Present
HPI: 76.33
Rank: 2
1508 - 1556
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 3
1914 - 2007
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 4
1929 - 1979
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 5
971 - 1030
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 6
1953 - 2001
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 7
1940 - 2011
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 8
1909 - 1978
HPI: 73.33
Rank: 9
1929 - 1996
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 10
1917 - 1979
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 11
1892 - 1960
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 12
1722 - 1772
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 13