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Akhtar Mansour

1968 - 2016

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Akhtar Mohammad Mansour (1960s – 21 May 2016) was the second supreme leader of the Taliban. Succeeding the founding leader, Mullah Omar, he was the supreme leader from July 2015 to May 2016, when he was killed in a US drone strike in Balochistan, Pakistan. United States president Barack Obama stated that Mansour was killed because he was planning attacks on US targets in Kabul. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akhtar Mansour has received more than 1,375,013 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Akhtar Mansour is the 13,588th most popular politician (down from 11,161st in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 86th in 2019) and the 71st most popular Afghan Politician.

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  • 49.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Akhtar Mansour ranks 13,588 out of 19,576. Before him are Pythodorida of Pontus, Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Yunus-bek Yevkurov, Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Fernando de Santiago, and José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco. After him are Henri Laurent, Jonathan Motzfeldt, Cai Xiang, Philémon Yang, Jon Huntsman Jr., and Áedán mac Gabráin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Akhtar Mansour ranks 149. Before him are Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Julia Boutros, Aleksandr Mostovoi, Shaggy, Frédéric Vasseur, and Jordi Mollà. After him are Boban Babunski, Debra Messing, Brian Steen Nielsen, Chad Stahelski, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Irina Privalova. Among people deceased in 2016, Akhtar Mansour ranks 288. Before him are Benoîte Groult, Jimmy Bain, William Trevor, Aurèle Nicolet, Fritz Stern, and Georges Balandier. After him are Pierre Aubert, Prince Buster, Nina Ponomaryova, James Joseph Dresnok, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, and Lúcio Lara.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Akhtar Mansour ranks 104 out of 177. Before him are Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), Ayub Khan (1857), Kader Khan (1937), Amr ibn al-Layth (null), Qabus (1000), and Vima Takto (100). After him are Atiq Rahimi (1962), Muhammad of Ghazni (998), Sultan Ali Keshtmand (1935), Minhaj-i-Siraj (1193), Hussain Hotak (null), and Mohammed Fahim (1957).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Akhtar Mansour ranks 71. Before him are Kamran Mirza (1512), Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), Ayub Khan (1857), Amr ibn al-Layth (null), Qabus (1000), and Vima Takto (100). After him are Muhammad of Ghazni (998), Sultan Ali Keshtmand (1935), Hussain Hotak (null), Mohammed Fahim (1957), Abdul Aziz Hotak (1700), and Antimachus I (-200).

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