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Ahmad bin Yahya

1891 - 1962

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Ahmad bin Yahya Hamidaddin (Arabic: أحمد بن يحيى حميد الدين; June 18, 1891 – September 19, 1962) was the penultimate king of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, who reigned from 1948 to 1962. His full name and title was H.M. al-Nasir-li-Dinullah Ahmad bin al-Mutawakkil 'Alallah Yahya, Imam and Commander of the Faithful, and King of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of the Yemen. Ahmad's ruthless, arbitrary and inconsistent rule made him the subject of a coup attempt, frequent assassination attempts and eventually led to the downfall of the kingdom shortly after his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad bin Yahya has received more than 233,531 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ahmad bin Yahya is the 9,363rd most popular politician (up from 10,941st in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Yemen (down from 12th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Yemeni Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ahmad bin Yahya ranks 9,363 out of 19,576. Before him are Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq, Béla Imrédy, Jacob Hutter, Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Yves Leterme, and Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt. After him are Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Malietoa Tanumafili II, Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Hermes da Fonseca, and Khabash.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Ahmad bin Yahya ranks 105. Before him are Oskar Kummetz, Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia, Wilder Penfield, R. Norris Williams, Alfred Wünnenberg, and Béla Imrédy. After him are Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, Abraham Fraenkel, Earl Warren, Franz Alexander, Pietro Nenni, and Vittorio Jano. Among people deceased in 1962, Ahmad bin Yahya ranks 84. Before him are Richard Aldington, Candido Portinari, Charles Galton Darwin, Erich von Tschermak, Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Diego Martínez Barrio. After him are Max Fabiani, György Orth, Francisco Bru, Franz Kline, Indalecio Prieto, and Paavo Aaltonen.

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In Yemen

Among people born in Yemen, Ahmad bin Yahya ranks 15 out of 35. Before him are Rashad al-Alimi (1954), Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (1869), Mukesh Ambani (1957), Muhammad al-Badr (1926), Wahb ibn Munabbih (655), and Tawakkol Karman (1979). After him are Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani (893), Shoshana Damari (1923), Hussein al-Houthi (1960), Ali Nasir Muhammad (1940), Mohammed Basindawa (1935), and Abdullah al-Sallal (1917).

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Among POLITICIANS In Yemen

Among politicians born in Yemen, Ahmad bin Yahya ranks 7. Before him are Ali Abdullah Saleh (1947), Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (1945), Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (600), Rashad al-Alimi (1954), Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (1869), and Muhammad al-Badr (1926). After him are Hussein al-Houthi (1960), Ali Nasir Muhammad (1940), Mohammed Basindawa (1935), Abdullah al-Sallal (1917), Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas (1939), and Ibrahim al-Hamdi (1943).

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