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Farah Pahlavi

1938 - Today

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Farah Pahlavi (Persian: فرح پهلوی, née Diba (دیبا); born 14 October 1938) is the widow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and was successively Queen and Empress (شهبانو, Shahbanu) of Iran from 1959 to 1979. She was born into a prosperous family whose fortunes were diminished after her father's early death. While studying architecture in Paris, she was introduced to Mohammad Reza at the Iranian embassy, and they were married in December 1959. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Farah Pahlavi has received more than 3,528,586 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Farah Pahlavi is the 853rd most popular politician (down from 663rd in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Iran (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Iranian Politician.

Farah Pahlavi is most famous for being the wife of the Shah of Iran. She was the Empress of Iran from 1967 to 1979.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Farah Pahlavi ranks 853 out of 15,577Before her are Wilm Hosenfeld, Islam Karimov, Jozef Tiso, Aurangzeb, Kara Mustafa Pasha, and Qaboos bin Said al Said. After her are Ahmad Shah Massoud, Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and Eleanor of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Farah Pahlavi ranks 13Before her are Jon Voight, Rudolf Nureyev, Queen Sofía of Spain, Leonid Kuchma, Nico, and Islam Karimov. After her are Joe Dassin, Paul Verhoeven, Christopher Lloyd, Alberto Fujimori, Anthony Giddens, and Jean Seberg.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Farah Pahlavi ranks 40 out of 528Before her are Reza Shah (1878), Antiochus III the Great (-241), Ardashir I (180), Shapur I (150), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), and Shams Tabrizi (1185). After her are Bahá'u'lláh (1817), Cambyses I (-600), Saadi Shirazi (1210), Astyages (-700), Abolhassan Banisadr (1933), and Yazdegerd III (624).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Farah Pahlavi ranks 18Before her are Khosrow I (501), Darius II (-475), Reza Shah (1878), Antiochus III the Great (-241), Ardashir I (180), and Shapur I (150). After her are Cambyses I (-600), Astyages (-700), Abolhassan Banisadr (1933), Yazdegerd III (624), Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247), and Hassan Rouhani (1948).