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Akbar

1542 - 1605

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Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar ((1542-10-15)15 October 1542 – (1605-10-27)27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar I (Persian pronunciation: [ak.baɾ]), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expand and consolidate Mughal domains in the Indian subcontinent. Akbar gradually enlarged the Mughal Empire to include much of the Indian subcontinent through Mughal military, political, cultural, and economic dominance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akbar has received more than 16,718,791 page views. His biography is available in 139 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 137 in 2019). Akbar is the 171st most popular politician (up from 207th in 2019), the most popular biography from Pakistan and the most popular Pakistani Politician.

Akbar is most famous for uniting the Indian subcontinent and for his tolerance of other religions.

Memorability Metrics

  • 17M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 78.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 139

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Akbar ranks 171 out of 15,577. Before him are Catherine I of Russia, Demosthenes, Batu Khan, Joanna of Castile, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and Henry III of France. After him are Reinhard Heydrich, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Suleiman II, Thutmose III, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Charles I of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1542, Akbar ranks 2. Before him is Mary, Queen of Scots. After him are Tokugawa Ieyasu, John of the Cross, Hattori Hanzō, Robert Bellarmine, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Isabella de' Medici, Mariam-uz-Zamani, Jan Zamoyski, Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, and Henriette of Cleves. Among people deceased in 1605, Akbar ranks 1. After him are Pope Clement VIII, Pope Leo XI, Boris Godunov, Handan Sultan, Feodor II of Russia, Jean Nicot, John Davis, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Theodore Beza, Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Naresuan.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Akbar ranks 1 out of 180. After him are Shah Jahan (1592), Chanakya (-375), Guru Nanak (1469), Pāṇini (-500), Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Benazir Bhutto (1953), Bhagat Singh (1907), Kanishka (78), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), Vasubandhu (400), and Porus (-400).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Akbar ranks 1. After him are Shah Jahan (1592), Benazir Bhutto (1953), Kanishka (78), Porus (-400), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), Aga Khan III (1877), Ranjit Singh (1780), Imran Khan (1952), and Manmohan Singh (1932).

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