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Gaafar Nimeiry

1930 - 2009

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Gaafar Muhammad an-Nimeiry (otherwise spelled in English as Gaafar Nimeiry, Jaafar Nimeiry, or Ja'far Muhammad Numayri; Arabic: جعفر محمد النميري; 1 January 1930 – 30 May 2009) was a Sudanese military officer and politician who served as the fourth head of state of Sudan from 1969 to 1985, first as Chairman of the National Revolutionary Command Council and then as President. A military officer, he came to power after a military coup in 1969. Establishing a one-party state, with his Sudanese Socialist Union as the sole legal political entity in the country, Nimeiry pursued socialist and Pan-Arabist policies and close collaboration with Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaafar Nimeiry has received more than 428,005 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Gaafar Nimeiry is the 5,982nd most popular politician (down from 3,992nd in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Sudan (down from 6th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Sudanese Politician.

Gaafar Nimeiry is most famous for being the president of Sudan from 1969 to 1985.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 5,982 out of 19,576. Before him are Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, Almazbek Atambayev, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland, Sobekhotep IV, and Prince Louis of Battenberg. After him are Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg, Barham Salih, Ayad Allawi, Thorleif Haug, and Antipope Constantine II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 115. Before him are Sonny Rollins, Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Jasper Johns, Igor Netto, Rahmon Nabiyev, and J. G. Ballard. After him are Ruth Rendell, Anisa Makhlouf, Akiyuki Nosaka, Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, Pierre Bergé, and Vilma Espín. Among people deceased in 2009, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 67. Before him are Vyacheslav Tikhonov, J. G. Ballard, Clive Granger, Alicia de Larrocha, Shih Kien, and Edward T. Hall. After him are Ricardo Montalbán, Arne Næss, Sydney Chaplin, Philip José Farmer, Oleg Yankovsky, and Kim Peek.

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In Sudan

Among people born in Sudan, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 8 out of 38. Before him are Mohamed Naguib (1901), Muhammad Ahmad (1844), Omar al-Bashir (1944), Piye (-800), Josephine Bakhita (1868), and John Garang (1945). After him are Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (1960), Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (1846), Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab (1934), Tayeb Salih (1929), Ibrahim Abboud (1900), and Manute Bol (1962).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sudan

Among politicians born in Sudan, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 5. Before him are Mohamed Naguib (1901), Omar al-Bashir (1944), Piye (-800), and John Garang (1945). After him are Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (1960), Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (1846), Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab (1934), Ibrahim Abboud (1900), Ismail al-Azhari (1901), Hassan Al-Turabi (1932), and Abdalla Hamdok (1956).

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