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Cyrus the Great

600 BC - 530 BC

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Cyrus II of Persia (Old Persian: 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 Kūruš; c. 600 – 530 BC), commonly known as Cyrus the Great, was the founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Hailing from Persis, he brought the Achaemenid dynasty to power by defeating the Median Empire and embracing all of the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanding vastly and eventually conquering most of West Asia and much of Central Asia to create what would soon become the largest polity in human history at the time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cyrus the Great has received more than 11,106,081 page views. His biography is available in 122 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 114 in 2019). Cyrus the Great is the 127th most popular politician (down from 116th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Iran (down from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Politician.

Cyrus the Great was most famous for being the ruler of the Persian Empire from 550 BC to 530 BC. He is also known for freeing the Jews from Babylonian captivity and allowing them to return to their homeland.

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  • 6.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Cyrus the Great ranks 127 out of 19,576. Before him are Mehmed III, Yitzhak Rabin, Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, Tiberius, Louis XIII of France, and Theodosius I. After him are Philip II of Macedon, Hermann Göring, Philip IV of France, Clovis I, Murad I, and John Major.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600 BC, Cyrus the Great ranks 1. After him are Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, Tomyris, Esther, Lucretia, Ānanda, Servius Tullius, Peisistratos, Hippasus, Yaśodharā, Cambyses I, and Belshazzar. Among people deceased in 530 BC, Cyrus the Great ranks 1. After him are Bias of Priene, and Hanno the Navigator.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Cyrus the Great ranks 5 out of 631. Before him are Omar Khayyam (1048), Al-Ghazali (1058), Zoroaster (-2000), and Ruhollah Khomeini (1902). After him are Xerxes I (-519), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919), Ali Khamenei (1939), Darius III (-380), Harun al-Rashid (766), Ismail I (1487), and Abu Nuwas (762).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Cyrus the Great ranks 1. After him are Xerxes I (-519), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919), Ali Khamenei (1939), Darius III (-380), Harun al-Rashid (766), Cambyses II (-550), Malik-Shah I (1055), Tahmasp I (1514), Nader Shah (1688), Khosrow I (501), and Reza Shah (1878).

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