RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Ahmed Yassin

1937 - 2004

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Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin (Arabic: الشيخ أحمد إسماعيل حسن ياسين; June 1936 – 22 March 2004) was a Palestinian politician and imam who founded Hamas in 1987. He also served as the first chairman of the Hamas Shura Council and de facto leader of Hamas since its inception from December 1987 until his assassination in March 2004. Yassin was born in Ashkelon, in Mandatory Palestine in 1929 or 1936. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmed Yassin has received more than 1,876,097 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Ahmed Yassin is the 113th most popular religious figure (up from 503rd in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Israel (up from 67th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Israeli Religious Figure.

Ahmed Yassin is most famous for being the founder and leader of Hamas, an Islamic terrorist organization.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 76.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Ahmed Yassin ranks 113 out of 3,187. Before him are Elizabeth, Simon the Zealot, Huldrych Zwingli, Pope Urban VIII, Arius, and Methuselah. After him are Agatha of Sicily, Pope Pius II, Thérèse of Lisieux, Esther, Pope Adrian II, and Elisha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Ahmed Yassin ranks 7. Before him are Saddam Hussein, Anthony Hopkins, Harald V of Norway, Valentina Tereshkova, Morgan Freeman, and Ridley Scott. After him are Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Bobby Charlton, Jane Fonda, Queen Sonja of Norway, and Martti Ahtisaari. Among people deceased in 2004, Ahmed Yassin ranks 4. Before him are Yasser Arafat, Ronald Reagan, and Marlon Brando. After him are Jacques Derrida, Ray Charles, Juliana of the Netherlands, Francis Crick, Françoise Sagan, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Czesław Miłosz, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Ahmed Yassin ranks 29 out of 466. Before him are Thomas the Apostle (1), Ezekiel (-621), Salome (14), Jude the Apostle (15), Simon the Zealot (1), and Moshe Dayan (1915). After him are Herod Antipas (-20), Bathsheba (-3500), Rehoboam (-972), John the Evangelist (10), Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem (1160), and Amin al-Husseini (1895).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Israel

Among religious figures born in Israel, Ahmed Yassin ranks 20. Before him are Bartholomew the Apostle (-100), Thomas the Apostle (1), Ezekiel (-621), Salome (14), Jude the Apostle (15), and Simon the Zealot (1). After him are Joachim (-100), Matthias the Apostle (1), Eusebius (265), Judas Maccabeus (-200), Joseph of Arimathea (100), and Joel (-1).

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