POLITICIAN

Faisal of Saudi Arabia

1906 - 1975

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Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Arabic: فيصل بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود, romanized: Fayṣal ibn ʿAbd al ʿAzīz Āl Suʿūd; Najdi Arabic pronunciation: [fæjsˤɑl ben ˈʕæbd ælʕæˈziːz ʔæːl sæˈʕuːd]; 14 April 1906 – 25 March 1975) was the King of Saudi Arabia from 2 November 1964 until his assassination in 1975. Before his ascension, he served as Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 9 November 1953 to 2 November 1964, and he was briefly regent to his half-brother King Saud in 1964. He was prime minister from 1954 to 1960 and from 1962 to 1975. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Faisal of Saudi Arabia has received more than 5,610,597 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Faisal of Saudi Arabia is the 925th most popular politician (down from 888th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (down from 34th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Saudi Arabian Politician.

Faisal of Saudi Arabia is most famous for being the king of Saudi Arabia from 1964-1975.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 70

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Faisal of Saudi Arabia ranks 925 out of 19,576. Before him are Jeongjo of Joseon, Ivan Mazepa, Moshe Sharett, Isabel Martínez de Perón, Wojciech Jaruzelski, and Edward the Elder. After him are Bongbong Marcos, Muhammad II of Khwarazm, Marcian, Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Djedefre, and Ottokar II of Bohemia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Faisal of Saudi Arabia ranks 19. Before him are Maria Goeppert Mayer, Victor Vasarely, Josephine Baker, Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, and Sergei Korolev. After him are Billy Wilder, Henri Charrière, Hans Bethe, Roberto Rossellini, Ernst Ruska, and Emmanuel Levinas. Among people deceased in 1975, Faisal of Saudi Arabia ranks 14. Before him are Aristotle Onassis, Otto Skorzeny, Haile Selassie, Josephine Baker, Arnold J. Toynbee, and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. After him are Mikhail Bakhtin, Saint-John Perse, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, George Paget Thomson, Josemaría Escrivá, and Robert Robinson.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Faisal of Saudi Arabia ranks 49 out of 354. Before him are Abd Allah ibn Abbas (619), Ali al-Ridha (770), Talhah (595), Fahd of Saudi Arabia (1921), Zayd ibn Harithah (581), and Safiyya bint Huyayy (610). After him are Umm Salama (602), Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad (603), Muhammad al-Baqir (677), Ruqayyah bint Muhammad (598), 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Awf (580), and Sawda bint Zamʿa (589).

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Among POLITICIANS In Saudi Arabia

Among politicians born in Saudi Arabia, Faisal of Saudi Arabia ranks 19. Before him are Abdullah I of Jordan (1882), Marwan I (623), Umar II (682), Amr ibn Hishām (570), Fahd of Saudi Arabia (1921), and Safiyya bint Huyayy (610). After him are Al-Walid I (668), Musaylimah (600), Faisal I of Iraq (1885), Talal of Jordan (1909), Maymunah bint al-Harith (594), and Khalid of Saudi Arabia (1912).

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