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POLITICIAN

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 393,314 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Gaafar Nimeiry is the 4,002nd most popular politician (up from 4,232nd in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Sudan (up from 7th in 2019) and the 3rd 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)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 4,002 out of 15,577. Before him are Erwin Piscator, Eumenes III, Otto Georg Thierack, King Huiwen of Qin, Vasili Kuznetsov, and Rodolphe Seeldrayers. After him are Marquis of Haihun, Labashi-Marduk, Maria Kaczyńska, Red Cloud, Yaroslav II of Vladimir, and Felix Kersten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 75. Before him are Gérard Genette, Derek Walcott, Pierre Bergé, Ivan Silayev, Richard Donner, and Sonia Rykiel. After him are Ben Gazzara, Buck Henry, Michel Serres, Zhores Alferov, Chinua Achebe, and Omara Portuondo. Among people deceased in 2009, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 40. Before him are Norman Borlaug, Raúl Alfonsín, Ephraim Katzir, Ertuğrul Osman, Leszek Kołakowski, and Sergey Mikhalkov. After him are Natasha Richardson, Toni Sailer, Pavel Popovich, Patrick McGoohan, Mario Benedetti, and Albert Barillé.

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In Sudan

Among people born in Sudan, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 6 out of 29. Before him are Omar al-Bashir (1944), Muhammad Ahmad (1844), Luqman (-1100), Josephine Bakhita (1868), and Piye (-800). After him are Abdalla Hamdok (1956), John Garang (1945), Hassan Al-Turabi (1932), Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (1846), Ibrahim Abboud (1900), and Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (1960).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sudan

Among politicians born in Sudan, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 3. Before him are Omar al-Bashir (1944) and Piye (-800). After him are Abdalla Hamdok (1956), John Garang (1945), Hassan Al-Turabi (1932), Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (1846), Ibrahim Abboud (1900), Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (1960), Ismail al-Azhari (1901), Ahmed al-Mirghani (1941), and Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab (1934).

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