1916 - 2012
Ahmed Ben Bella (Arabic: أحمد بن بلّة Aḥmad bin Billah; 25 December 1916 – 11 April 2012) was an Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary who served as the first President of Algeria from 1963 to 1965. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmed Ben Bella has received more than 441,729 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Ahmed Ben Bella is the 1,151st most popular politician (down from 925th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Algeria and the 3rd most popular Algerian Politician.
Ahmed ben Bella is most famous for being the first president of Algeria, a country in North Africa. He was president from 1963 to 1965.
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Among politicians, Ahmed Ben Bella ranks 1,151 out of 15,710. Before him are Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Damocles, False Dmitry I, Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain, Gustav Stresemann, and Süleyman Demirel. After him are Cyrus the Younger, Stephen III of Moldavia, Alfredo Stroessner, Şehzade Cihangir, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and Margaret of Parma.
1247 - 1318
HPI: 75.81
Rank: 1,145
HPI: 75.81
Rank: 1,146
1581 - 1606
HPI: 75.81
Rank: 1,147
1549 - 1580
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 1,148
1878 - 1929
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 1,149
1924 - 2015
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 1,150
1916 - 2012
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 1,151
500 BC - 401 BC
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 1,152
1433 - 1504
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 1,153
1912 - 2006
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 1,154
1531 - 1553
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 1,155
1920 - 2010
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 1,156
1522 - 1586
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 1,157
Among people born in 1916, Ahmed Ben Bella ranks 14. Before him are Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Harold Wilson, Aldo Moro, Hans Eysenck, and Claude Shannon. After him are Herbert A. Simon, Ferruccio Lamborghini, João Havelange, Yehudi Menuhin, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, and Maurice Wilkins. Among people deceased in 2012, Ahmed Ben Bella ranks 10. Before him are Norodom Sihanouk, Wisława Szymborska, Whitney Houston, Jon Lord, Eric Hobsbawm, and Rita Levi-Montalcini. After him are Yitzhak Shamir, Theo Angelopoulos, Michael Clarke Duncan, Ernest Borgnine, Carroll Shelby, and Elinor Ostrom.
1916 - 1982
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 8
1916 - 1974
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 9
1916 - 1995
HPI: 77.40
Rank: 10
1916 - 1978
HPI: 77.28
Rank: 11
1916 - 1997
HPI: 75.90
Rank: 12
1916 - 2001
HPI: 75.83
Rank: 13
1916 - 2012
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 14
1916 - 2001
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 15
1916 - 1993
HPI: 75.53
Rank: 16
1916 - 2016
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 17
1916 - 1999
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 18
1916 - 2000
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 19
1916 - 2004
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 20
1922 - 2012
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 4
1923 - 2012
HPI: 78.20
Rank: 5
1963 - 2012
HPI: 77.91
Rank: 6
1941 - 2012
HPI: 76.27
Rank: 7
1917 - 2012
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 8
1909 - 2012
HPI: 75.86
Rank: 9
1916 - 2012
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 10
1915 - 2012
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 11
1935 - 2012
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 12
1957 - 2012
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 13
1917 - 2012
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 14
1923 - 2012
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 15
1933 - 2012
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 16
Among people born in Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella ranks 10 out of 164. Before him are Apuleius (125), Jacques Derrida (1930), Macrinus (164), Louis Althusser (1918), Saint Monica (332), and Jugurtha (-160). After him are Emir Abdelkader (1808), Édouard-Henri Avril (1849), Juba II (-52), Dihya (700), Houari Boumédiène (1932), and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1933).
125 - 170
HPI: 81.01
Rank: 4
1930 - 2004
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 5
164 - 218
HPI: 80.10
Rank: 6
1918 - 1990
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 7
332 - 387
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 8
160 BC - 104 BC
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 9
1916 - 2012
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 10
1808 - 1883
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 11
1849 - 1928
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 12
52 BC - 23
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 13
700 - 601
HPI: 73.32
Rank: 14
1932 - 1978
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 15
1933 - Present
HPI: 71.92
Rank: 16
Among politicians born in Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella ranks 3. Before him are Macrinus (164) and Jugurtha (-160). After him are Emir Abdelkader (1808), Juba II (-52), Dihya (700), Houari Boumédiène (1932), Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois (1898), Marcel Cerdan (1916), Syphax (-250), Juba I of Numidia (-85), and Abdelmadjid Tebboune (1945).
164 - 218
HPI: 80.10
Rank: 1
160 BC - 104 BC
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 2
1916 - 2012
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 3
1808 - 1883
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 4
52 BC - 23
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 5
700 - 601
HPI: 73.32
Rank: 6
1932 - 1978
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 7
1898 - 1977
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 8
1916 - 1949
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 9
250 BC - 202 BC
HPI: 70.90
Rank: 10
85 BC - 46 BC
HPI: 70.64
Rank: 11
1945 - Present
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 12