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Ahmed Chalabi

1944 - 2015

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Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi (Arabic: أحمد عبد الهادي الجلبي;‎ 30 October 1945 – 3 November 2015) was an Iraqi dissident politician and founder of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) who served as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq (37th Prime Minister of Iraq) and a Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq under Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Chalabi was interim Minister of Oil in Iraq in April–May 2005 and December 2005 – January 2006 and Deputy Prime Minister from May 2005 to May 2006. Chalabi failed to win a seat in parliament in the December 2005 elections, and when the new Iraqi cabinet was announced in May 2006, he was not given a post. Once dubbed the "George Washington of Iraq" by American supporters, he was initially a CIA-backed operative, who later fell out of favor, with U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmed Chalabi has received more than 801,864 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ahmed Chalabi is the 11,874th most popular politician (down from 11,442nd in 2019), the 281st most popular biography from Iraq (down from 261st in 2019) and the 175th most popular Iraqi Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ahmed Chalabi ranks 11,874 out of 19,576. Before him are Mislav of Croatia, John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, Paul von Rusdorf, Paul Magloire, Anaxidamus, and Alexandru G. Golescu. After him are Raghad Hussein, Zhizhi, Ordelafo Faliero, Rafi ud-Darajat, Moussa Dadis Camara, and Marino Zorzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Ahmed Chalabi ranks 347. Before him are Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Michael Grätzel, Dennis Franz, Nikolai Karachentsov, Enrique Irazoqui, and George Baker. After him are Divina Galica, Moe Tucker, Annette Lu, Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, John McCook, and Yusuf Estes. Among people deceased in 2015, Ahmed Chalabi ranks 191. Before him are Clark Terry, Michael Graves, Jeralean Talley, Jacques Sernas, Jon Vickers, and Gerald Götting. After him are Patachou, Wan Li, Slavko Avsenik, Frances Oldham Kelsey, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, and Beau Biden.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Ahmed Chalabi ranks 281 out of 384. Before him are Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz (861), Shamshi-Adad IV (-1100), Abu Firas al-Hamdani (932), Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī (923), Mahmud Nedim Pasha (1818), and Al-Mundhir III ibn al-Nu'man (500). After him are Raghad Hussein (1968), Abu Ali al-Anbari (1957), Ali Akbar Salehi (1949), Ishme-Dagan (-2000), Ishaq ibn Hunayn (830), and Tahir Yahya (1913).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Ahmed Chalabi ranks 175. Before him are Kadashman-Enlil I (-1400), Yitzhak Mordechai (1944), Ashur-bel-kala (-1200), Shamshi-Adad IV (-1100), Mahmud Nedim Pasha (1818), and Al-Mundhir III ibn al-Nu'man (500). After him are Raghad Hussein (1968), Ali Akbar Salehi (1949), Ishme-Dagan (-2000), Tahir Yahya (1913), Ali Larijani (1957), and Ashur-nadin-ahhe II (-1500).

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