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Ashraf Pahlavi

1919 - 2016

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Ashraf ol-Molouk Pahlavi (Persian: اشرف‌الملوک پهلوی, Ašraf Pahlavi, 26 October 1919 – 7 January 2016) was the twin sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran (Persia), and a member of the Pahlavi dynasty. She was considered the "power behind her brother" and was instrumental in the 1953 coup that overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah. She served her brother as a palace adviser and was a strong advocate for women's rights. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ashraf Pahlavi has received more than 671,916 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ashraf Pahlavi is the 4,676th most popular politician (up from 5,109th in 2019), the 163rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 155th in 2019) and the 90th most popular Iranian Politician.

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  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ashraf Pahlavi ranks 4,676 out of 19,576. Before her are Min Aung Hlaing, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria, Conrad, Duke of Lorraine, István Széchenyi, and Quintus Hortensius. After her are Abdul Rashid Dostum, Henri, Prince of Condé, Matthias Gallas, Menander I, Margareta of Romania, and Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Ashraf Pahlavi ranks 55. Before her are Chavela Vargas, Martin Balsam, William Lipscomb, Joseph Murray, Daniel Bell, and Mohamed Boudiaf. After her are Hermine Braunsteiner, Ryszard Kaczorowski, Art Blakey, Valentino Mazzola, René Barrientos, and Joe Weider. Among people deceased in 2016, Ashraf Pahlavi ranks 81. Before her are Margot Honecker, Tony Burton, Thomas Schelling, Iolanda Balaș, Toots Thielemans, and Corry Brokken. After her are Claude Gensac, Takahito, Prince Mikasa, Michal Kováč, Chris Amon, Edgar Mitchell, and Bata Živojinović.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ashraf Pahlavi ranks 163 out of 631. Before her are Ibn Babawayh (918), Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203), Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236), Shapour Bakhtiar (1914), Vologases VI (200), and Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543). After her are Abbas Mirza (1789), Phraates V (-100), Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897), Vologases III of Parthia (100), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), and Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1942).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Ashraf Pahlavi ranks 90. Before her are Phraates IV (-90), Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922), Amytis of Media (-630), Vologases IV (150), Shapour Bakhtiar (1914), and Vologases VI (200). After her are Abbas Mirza (1789), Phraates V (-100), Vologases III of Parthia (100), Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1942), Tiridates I of Armenia (null), and Mehdi Bazargan (1907).

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