MILITARY PERSONNEL

Ashraf Marwan

1944 - 2007

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Ashraf Marwan (Arabic: أشرف مروان‎, 2 February 1944 – 27 June 2007) was an Egyptian billionaire who worked as a spy for both the General Intelligence Directorate (Egypt) and the Israeli Mossad. Egyptian officials claim he was a double agent who also worked for them.From 1969, Marwan worked at the Presidential Office, first under Gamal Abdel Nasser and then as a close aide to his successor, Anwar Sadat. In 2002, it became known that Marwan had been recruited by Egyptian Intelligence and may have provided misleading information to the Israeli Mossad during the period leading up to the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ashraf Marwan has received more than 2,115,451 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ashraf Marwan is the 372nd most popular military personnel (up from 602nd in 2019), the 174th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 232nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Egyptian Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ashraf Marwans by language

Over the past year Ashraf Marwan has had the most page views in the with 185,276 views, followed by Arabic (135,727), and Hebrew (42,876). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (262.67%), Portuguese (103.58%), and Hebrew (91.41%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Ashraf Marwan ranks 372 out of 2,058. Before him are Iwane Matsui, Lü Meng, Alexander Yegorov, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Leonid Govorov, and François Achille Bazaine. After him are Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Giovanni Messe, Zhang He, Luigi Cadorna, Vasily Arkhipov, and Otto Kretschmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Ashraf Marwan ranks 76. Before him are Claudia Mori, Bernhard Schlink, Jonathan Demme, Gérard Mourou, Nǃxau ǂToma, and Kary Mullis. After him are R. Lee Ermey, W. G. Sebald, Gianni Morandi, Günter Netzer, Thein Sein, and Michelle Phillips. Among people deceased in 2007, Ashraf Marwan ranks 30. Before him are Albert Ellis, Nils Liedholm, Abdul Rahman Arif, Richard Rorty, Jane Wyman, and Arthur Kornberg. After him are Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Deborah Kerr, Ike Turner, Stanley Miller, Momofuku Ando, and Alan MacDiarmid.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Ashraf Marwan ranks 174 out of 642. Before him are Fuad II of Egypt (1952), Meritamen (-1400), As-Salih Ayyub (1205), Djedkare Isesi (-2500), Hussein Kamel of Egypt (1853), and Abbas II of Egypt (1874). After him are Hetepheres I (-2700), Mary the Jewess (100), Apepi (-1600), Shepseskare (-2450), Claude François (1939), and Saadia Gaon (882).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Egypt

Among military personnels born in Egypt, Ashraf Marwan ranks 2. Before him are Eli Cohen (1924). After him are Jawhar (911), Saad el-Shazly (1922), Walther von Hünersdorff (1898), Sayf al-Din Khushqadam (1413), Al-Ashraf Kujuk (1334), and Al-Salih Hajji (1372).

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