1947 - 2017
Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (Arabic: , ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar; 21 March 1942 – 4 December 2017) was a Yemeni politician who served as the first President of the Republic of Yemen, from Yemeni unification on 22 May 1990, to his resignation on 25 February 2012, following the Yemeni Revolution. Previously, he had served as President of the Yemen Arab Republic, or North Yemen, from July 1978, to 22 May 1990, after the assassination of President Ahmad al-Ghashmi.Saleh developed deeper ties with Western powers, especially the United States, during the War on Terror. Islamic terrorism may have been used and encouraged by Ali Abdullah Saleh in order to win Western support and for disruptive politically motivated attacks. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ali Abdullah Saleh has received more than 2,049,615 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Ali Abdullah Saleh is the 1,745th most popular politician (up from 1,970th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Yemen and the most popular Yemeni Politician.
Ali Abdullah Saleh was the president of Yemen for more than 30 years. He is most famous for his role in the Yemeni Civil War.
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Among politicians, Ali Abdullah Saleh ranks 1,745 out of 15,577. Before him are Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Conrad of Montferrat, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, Uesugi Kenshin, and Ladislaus IV of Hungary. After him are Conradin, Chilperic II, Alaeddin Pasha, Bao Zheng, Kim Jong-un, and Al-Musta'sim.
1937 - Present
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 1,739
1146 - 1192
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 1,740
1901 - 1965
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 1,741
1754 - 1806
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 1,742
1530 - 1578
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 1,743
1262 - 1290
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 1,744
1947 - 2017
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 1,745
1252 - 1268
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 1,746
670 - 721
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 1,747
1250 - 1330
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 1,748
999 - 1062
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 1,749
1983 - Present
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 1,750
1213 - 1258
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 1,751
Among people born in 1947, Ali Abdullah Saleh ranks 32. Before him are Shirin Ebadi, Paco de Lucía, Robert Kiyosaki, Sam Neill, Dick Advocaat, and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi. After him are France Gall, Farrah Fawcett, Herman Van Rompuy, Meat Loaf, Gloria Gaynor, and Gigliola Cinquetti. Among people deceased in 2017, Ali Abdullah Saleh ranks 21. Before him are Hugh Hefner, John Hurt, Mireille Darc, Manuel Noriega, Johnny Hallyday, and Glen Campbell. After him are Jerry Lewis, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Martin Landau, Mário Soares, Lotfi A. Zadeh, and George A. Romero.
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.07
Rank: 26
1947 - 2014
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 27
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 28
1947 - Present
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 29
1947 - Present
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 30
1947 - Present
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 31
1947 - 2017
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 32
1947 - 2018
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 33
1947 - 2009
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 34
1947 - Present
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 35
1947 - 2022
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 36
1947 - Present
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 37
1947 - Present
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 38
1926 - 2017
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 15
1940 - 2017
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 16
1938 - 2017
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 17
1934 - 2017
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 18
1943 - 2017
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 19
1936 - 2017
HPI: 66.62
Rank: 20
1947 - 2017
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 21
1926 - 2017
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 22
1922 - 2017
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 23
1928 - 2017
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 24
1924 - 2017
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 25
1921 - 2017
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 26
1940 - 2017
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 27
Among people born in Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh ranks 2 out of 21. Before him are Uwais al-Qarani (594). After him are Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (1945), Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (600), Malik al-Ashtar (585), Miqdad ibn Aswad (589), Mukesh Ambani (1957), Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (1869), Muhammad al-Badr (1926), Tawakkol Karman (1979), Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani (893), and Ahmad bin Yahya (1891).
594 - 657
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 1
1947 - 2017
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 2
1945 - Present
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 3
600 - 666
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 4
585 - 658
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 5
589 - 653
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 6
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 7
1869 - 1948
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 8
1926 - 1996
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 9
1979 - Present
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 10
893 - 945
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 11
1891 - 1962
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 12
Among politicians born in Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh ranks 1. After him are Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (1945), Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (600), Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (1869), Muhammad al-Badr (1926), Ahmad bin Yahya (1891), Ali Nasir Muhammad (1940), Mohammed Basindawa (1935), Abdul Qadir Bajamal (1946), Ali Muhammad Mujawar (1953), Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher (1952), and Keith Vaz (1956).
1947 - 2017
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 1
1945 - Present
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 2
600 - 666
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 3
1869 - 1948
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 4
1926 - 1996
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 5
1891 - 1962
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 6
1940 - Present
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 7
1935 - Present
HPI: 47.40
Rank: 8
1946 - 2020
HPI: 43.57
Rank: 9
1953 - Present
HPI: 43.03
Rank: 10
1952 - Present
HPI: 39.90
Rank: 11
1956 - Present
HPI: 25.86
Rank: 12