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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

1949 - Today

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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (born 1 August 1949) is an Afghan politician, and former mujahideen leader and drug trafficker. He is the founder and current leader of the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin political party, so called after Mohammad Yunus Khalis split from Hezbi Islami in 1979 to found Hezb-i Islami Khalis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has received more than 1,584,083 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is the 7,091st most popular politician (down from 1,828th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 20th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Afghan Politician.

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is most famous for being the founder of the Hezb-e Islami, a radical Islamist group in Afghanistan.

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  • 1.6M

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  • 56.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ranks 7,091 out of 19,576. Before him are Neferneferure, Alulim, Masayoshi Ōhira, Paul P. Harris, Perictione, and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine. After him are Kurmanjan Datka, Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia, King Zhuang of Chu, Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Kenneth II of Scotland, and Julius Constantius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ranks 144. Before him are Billy Gibbons, Robert Sternberg, Patrick Duffy, Jeremy Corbyn, Georges Leekens, and Mohammed Shahabuddin. After him are Diana Nyad, David Strathairn, José Pékerman, Geezer Butler, Massimo D'Alema, and Patrick Hernandez.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ranks 58 out of 177. Before him are Ibn Hibban (883), Abu Sa'id Gardezi (1100), Abu Maʿshar (787), Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar (840), Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji (1101), and Sanai (1080). After him are Jalal-ud-din Khalji (1220), Kujula Kadphises (20), Baysunghur (1397), Ismail Khan (1946), Mirwais Hotak (1673), and Ashraf Hotak (1700).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ranks 40. Before him are Sher Ali Khan (1825), Abdul Rahim Hatif (1926), Abdul Ghani Baradar (1968), Inayatullah Khan (1888), Saman Khuda (701), and Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar (840). After him are Jalal-ud-din Khalji (1220), Kujula Kadphises (20), Ismail Khan (1946), Mirwais Hotak (1673), Ashraf Hotak (1700), and Muhammad Shah (1702).

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