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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

1949 - Today

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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (born 1 August 1949) is an Afghan politician, 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 1,483,717 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is the 1,834th most popular politician (up from 3,887th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 28th in 2019) and the 15th 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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  • 65.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ranks 1,834 out of 15,577. Before him are Luís I of Portugal, Boris Johnson, Kenan Evren, Andrey Vyshinsky, Edward, King of Portugal, and Nikolai Podgorny. After him are Herman Van Rompuy, Naram-Sin of Akkad, King Wen of Zhou, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and Jean Jaurès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ranks 31. Before him are Slavoj Žižek, Sebastián Piñera, Thomas Sankara, Bobby Farrell, Carlos the Jackal, and Patrick Süskind. After him are Robin Gibb, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Joan Enric Vives Sicília, Alla Pugacheva, and Linda Lovelace.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ranks 20 out of 145. Before him are Mahmud of Ghazni (971), Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (1837), Mohammed Omar (1962), Babrak Karmal (1929), Humayun (1508), and Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890). After him are Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954), Ahmad Shah Durrani (1722), Alp-Tegin (963), Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), and Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ranks 15. Before him are Amanullah Khan (1892), Mahmud of Ghazni (971), Mohammed Omar (1962), Babrak Karmal (1929), Humayun (1508), and Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890). After him are Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954), Ahmad Shah Durrani (1722), Alp-Tegin (963), Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), and Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925).

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