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Ahmad Zia Massoud

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Ahmad Zia Massoud (Dari: احمد ضیاء مسعود, born May 1, 1956) is an Afghan politician who was the vice president of Afghanistan in the first elected administration of President Hamid Karzai, from December 2004 to November 2009. He is a younger brother of the late Ahmad Shah Massoud, the resistance leader against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and against the Taliban. In late 2011, Ahmad Zia Massoud joined hands with major leaders in the National Front of Afghanistan, which strongly opposed a return of the Taliban to power. The National Front was generally regarded as a reformation of the United Front (Northern Alliance) which with U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad Zia Massoud has received more than 252,458 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ahmad Zia Massoud is the 15,004th most popular politician (down from 13,336th in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 104th in 2019) and the 84th most popular Afghan Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ahmad Zia Massoud ranks 15,004 out of 19,576. Before him are Norbert Hofer, Eduard Kukan, Quintus Marcius Philippus, Awn Al-Khasawneh, Tarō Kōno, and Pedro Diniz. After him are Tihomir Orešković, Liang Guanglie, Masrour Barzani, Tom Naudé, Leo Falcam, and William Deane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Ahmad Zia Massoud ranks 331. Before him are Aleksandr Kaleri, Tim Daly, Bill Maher, Ted Gärdestad, Joy Mangano, and Ray Wilkins. After him are Thomas Wassberg, Schelte J. Bus, Chloe Webb, Héctor Rebaque, Leonid Taranenko, and Vjekoslav Bevanda.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Ahmad Zia Massoud ranks 121 out of 177. Before him are Ayub Shah Durrani (1800), Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī (1413), Apollodotus I (-300), Malalai of Maiwand (1861), Abdul Kabir (1958), and Anahita Ratebzad (1931). After him are Mahmud Shah Durrani (1769), Zaman Shah Durrani (1770), Ismail of Ghazni (null), Karim Khalili (1950), Suhaila Siddiq (1938), and Meena Keshwar Kamal (1956).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Ahmad Zia Massoud ranks 84. Before him are Sima Samar (1957), Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946), Ayub Shah Durrani (1800), Apollodotus I (-300), Abdul Kabir (1958), and Anahita Ratebzad (1931). After him are Mahmud Shah Durrani (1769), Zaman Shah Durrani (1770), Ismail of Ghazni (null), Karim Khalili (1950), Suhaila Siddiq (1938), and Euthydemus II (-200).

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