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Faisal I of Iraq

1885 - 1933

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Faisal I bin al-Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi (Arabic: فيصل بن حسين بن علي الهاشمي, Fayṣal al-Awwal bin al-Ḥusayn bin ʻAlī al-Hāshimī; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933) was King of Iraq from 23 August 1921 until his death in 1933. A member of the Hashemite family, he was a leader of the Great Arab Revolt during the First World War, and ruled as the unrecognized King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria from March to July 1920 when he was expelled by the French. The third son of Hussein bin Ali, the Grand Emir and Sharif of Mecca, Faisal was born in Mecca and raised in Istanbul. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Faisal I of Iraq has received more than 2,639,860 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Faisal I of Iraq is the 1,256th most popular politician (down from 1,030th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (down from 38th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Saudi Arabian Politician.

Faisal I of Iraq is most famous for being the first king of Iraq, and the founder of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Faisal I of Iraq ranks 1,256 out of 19,576. Before him are Karađorđe, Daoguang Emperor, Constantine VI, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, 2nd Dalai Lama, and Karl Haushofer. After him are Fritz Sauckel, Alexei Rykov, Theodoric the Great, Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, Ludvík Svoboda, and Andronikos III Palaiologos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Faisal I of Iraq ranks 14. Before him are Umberto Nobile, Ezra Pound, Hermann Hoth, Karen Horney, Julius Streicher, and Robert Delaunay. After him are Chester W. Nimitz, André Maurois, Mikhail Frunze, Ernst Busch, Princess Alice of Battenberg, and Ernst Bloch. Among people deceased in 1933, Faisal I of Iraq ranks 5. Before him are Clara Zetkin, Li Ching-Yuen, Calvin Coolidge, and Adolf Loos. After him are Constantine P. Cavafy, 13th Dalai Lama, John Galsworthy, Paul Ehrenfest, Sándor Ferenczi, Mohammed Nadir Shah, and Nikolai Yudenich.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Faisal I of Iraq ranks 63 out of 354. Before him are Musa al-Kadhim (745), Anas ibn Malik (612), Al-Walid I (668), Musaylimah (600), Abdullah ibn Masud (600), and Sumayyah bint Khabbat (550). After him are Ammar ibn Yasir (570), Abdullah ibn Umar (610), Talal of Jordan (1909), Ibn Ishaq (704), Maymunah bint al-Harith (594), and Hasan al-Basri (642).

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Among POLITICIANS In Saudi Arabia

Among politicians born in Saudi Arabia, Faisal I of Iraq ranks 22. Before him are Amr ibn Hishām (570), Fahd of Saudi Arabia (1921), Safiyya bint Huyayy (610), Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1906), Al-Walid I (668), and Musaylimah (600). After him are Talal of Jordan (1909), Maymunah bint al-Harith (594), Khalid of Saudi Arabia (1912), Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (674), Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf (661), and Muhammad bin Saud (1710).

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