POLITICIAN

Fuad Chehab

1902 - 1973

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Fouad Abdallah Chehab (Arabic: فُؤاد عبد الله شِهاب / ALA-LC: Fuʼād ʻAbd Allāh Shihāb; 19 March 1902 – 25 April 1973) was a Lebanese general and statesman who served as president of Lebanon from 1958 to 1964. He is considered to be the founder of the Lebanese Army after Lebanon gained independence from France, and became its first commander in 1946. Born in Ghazir to a family that traced its origins to nobility, Chehab joined the French Army in 1919. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fuad Chehab has received more than 157,255 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Fuad Chehab is the 8,279th most popular politician (up from 9,554th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Lebanon (up from 67th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Lebanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fuad Chehab ranks 8,279 out of 19,576. Before him are John I, Margrave of Brandenburg, Blanche of Artois, Ersin Tatar, Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours, Konstantinos Tsatsos, and Robert Guéï. After him are Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Spyros Kyprianou, Irakli Tsereteli, Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Ban Biao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Fuad Chehab ranks 111. Before him are Peregrino Anselmo, Ľudovít Fulla, Giorgio Pessina, Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Ernst von Salomon, and Josep Lluís Sert. After him are Karl Menger, Thelma Ritter, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Mach, Heinz Rühmann, and Albert Anastasia. Among people deceased in 1973, Fuad Chehab ranks 98. Before him are Lorenzo Fernández, Maurice René Fréchet, Jarno Saarinen, Clas Thunberg, Marthe Bibesco, and Merian C. Cooper. After him are Helen Parkhurst, Gene Krupa, Alois Hába, Tarsila do Amaral, Lidia Ruslanova, and Bobby Darin.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Fuad Chehab ranks 62 out of 145. Before him are Serj Tankian (1967), Fawzi al-Qawuqji (1890), Ahmad Shukeiri (1908), Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī (1547), Elie Hobeika (1956), and Mikha'il Na'ima (1889). After him are René Moawad (1925), Fakhr al-Din II (1572), Elias Hrawi (1926), Suleiman Frangieh (1910), Samir Geagea (1952), and Abdalonymus (-305).

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Among POLITICIANS In Lebanon

Among politicians born in Lebanon, Fuad Chehab ranks 29. Before him are Bechara El Khoury (1890), Raymond II, Count of Tripoli (1115), Omar Karami (1934), Nicolas Hayek (1928), Ahmad Shukeiri (1908), and Elie Hobeika (1956). After him are René Moawad (1925), Fakhr al-Din II (1572), Elias Hrawi (1926), Suleiman Frangieh (1910), Samir Geagea (1952), and Abdalonymus (-305).

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