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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 150,718 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Fuad Chehab is the 9,581st most popular politician (down from 7,709th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 53rd in 2019) and the 30th most popular Lebanese Politician.

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  • 52.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fuad Chehab ranks 9,581 out of 15,577. Before him are Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, Muhammad III of Granada, Hiltrud, Salchak Toka, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, and Nasser Al-Sabah. After him are Gagik II of Armenia, Yves Leterme, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Georges Marchais, Hadadezer, and Igor Moiseyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Fuad Chehab ranks 135. Before him are Andrew Irvine, K. Shivaram Karanth, Anthony Asquith, Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and Regina Jonas. After him are Józef Maria Bocheński, Dutch Schultz, Josef Krips, Luis Cernuda, Ansel Adams, and Zino Francescatti. Among people deceased in 1973, Fuad Chehab ranks 115. Before him are Alexander Mosolov, Dean Corll, Alexander Vandegrift, Joseph Szigeti, Karel Ančerl, and Salchak Toka. After him are Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Johannes Aavik, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Paul van Zeeland, Âşık Veysel, and Lauri Lehtinen.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Fuad Chehab ranks 67 out of 138. Before him are Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir (1920), Fakhr al-Din II (1572), Mikha'il Na'ima (1889), Suleiman Frangieh (1910), René Moawad (1925), and Fawzi al-Qawuqji (1890). After him are Abbas al-Musawi (1952), Gabriel Yared (1949), Antoun Saadeh (1904), Riad Al Solh (1894), Imad Mughniyah (1962), and Rashid Karami (1921).

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Among POLITICIANS In Lebanon

Among politicians born in Lebanon, Fuad Chehab ranks 30. Before him are Abdalonymus (-305), Walid Jumblatt (1949), Samir Geagea (1952), Fakhr al-Din II (1572), Suleiman Frangieh (1910), and René Moawad (1925). After him are Abbas al-Musawi (1952), Riad Al Solh (1894), Imad Mughniyah (1962), Rashid Karami (1921), Hassan Diab (1959), and Selim Hoss (1929).

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