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Ayub Khan

1857 - 1914

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Ghazi Mohammad Ayub Khan (Pashto: غازي محمد ايوب خان ; Dari: غازی محمد ایوب خان) (1857 – 7 April 1914) also known as the Victor of Maiwand or the Afghan Prince Charlie was, for a while, the governor of Herat Province in the Emirate of Afghanistan. He was briefly the Emir of Afghanistan, from 12 October 1879 to 31 May 1880. He also led the Afghan troops during the Second Anglo-Afghan War and defeated the British Indian Army at the Battle of Maiwand. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ayub Khan has received more than 307,276 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ayub Khan is the 12,852nd most popular politician (down from 11,504th in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 87th in 2019) and the 67th most popular Afghan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ayub Khan ranks 12,852 out of 19,576Before him are Teutberga, Ernest Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels, Stephen Allen Benson, Emmanouil Tsouderos, and Jacek Kuroń. After him are Robert, Count of Mortain, Leopold III, Prince of Lippe, Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, Ljubomir Davidović, Carl Theodor Zahle, and Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Ayub Khan ranks 101Before him are Ivo Vojnović, Georges Leygues, Joseph Larmor, Anna Kuliscioff, Friedrich von Ingenohl, and Alice Pike Barney. After him are Helena Westermarck, Aleksei Evert, Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar, James Edward Keeler, Henry Dudeney, and Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Among people deceased in 1914, Ayub Khan ranks 99Before him are Józef Chełmoński, Christopher Cradock, Jean Bouin, Richard Heuberger, Wilhelm Lexis, and Koos de la Rey. After him are Carl Theodore Liebermann, Peyo Yavorov, Jacob Riis, Carl Chun, Benedict Menni, and Paul Mauser.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Ayub Khan ranks 99 out of 177Before him are Mahmud Tarzi (1865), Shah Shujah Durrani (1785), Amrullah Saleh (1972), Heliocles I (-200), Kamran Mirza (1512), and Zalmay Khalilzad (1951). After him are Kader Khan (1937), Amr ibn al-Layth (null), Qabus (1000), Vima Takto (100), Akhtar Mansour (1968), and Atiq Rahimi (1962).

Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Ayub Khan ranks 67Before him are Mahmud Tarzi (1865), Shah Shujah Durrani (1785), Amrullah Saleh (1972), Heliocles I (-200), Kamran Mirza (1512), and Zalmay Khalilzad (1951). After him are Amr ibn al-Layth (null), Qabus (1000), Vima Takto (100), Akhtar Mansour (1968), Muhammad of Ghazni (998), and Sultan Ali Keshtmand (1935).