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Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

1957 - Today

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Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow (born 29 June 1957) is a Turkmen politician and former dentist who is currently the Chairman of the People's Council of Turkmenistan. He previously served as the 2nd President of Turkmenistan from 2006 to 2022, when he entered into a power-sharing arrangement with his son, Serdar, the current president. As a former dentist, Berdimuhamedow served in the government of the president, Saparmyrat Niyazow, as the Minister of Health in 1997 and as the 3rd Vice President in 2001. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow has received more than 3,002,095 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is the 1,700th most popular politician (down from 1,591st in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Turkmenistan (down from 4th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Turkmen Politician.

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is the president of Turkmenistan. He was elected in 2007 and re-elected in 2012. He is most famous for his authoritarian rule and for his crackdown on dissent.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow ranks 1,700 out of 19,576. Before him are Abolhassan Banisadr, Rudolf von Laban, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Pyotr Stolypin, Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, and Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours. After him are Cyrus the Younger, Tedros Adhanom, Theresa May, Afonso III of Portugal, Arthur Balfour, and Bernhard von Bülow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow ranks 12. Before him are Bongbong Marcos, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Clarke Duncan, Aki Kaurismäki, Dolph Lundgren, and Shavkat Mirziyoyev. After him are Fumio Kishida, Gloria Estefan, Sid Vicious, Christopher Lambert, Greg Abbott, and Frances McDormand.

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In Turkmenistan

Among people born in Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow ranks 5 out of 50. Before him are Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (780), Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu (1199), Abu Muslim (718), and Saparmurat Niyazov (1940). After him are Al-Nasa'i (829), Al-Zamakhshari (1075), Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur (1603), Ibn Khordadbeh (820), Chaghri Beg (989), Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak (736), and Al-Muqanna (800).

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Among POLITICIANS In Turkmenistan

Among politicians born in Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow ranks 3. Before him are Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu (1199), and Saparmurat Niyazov (1940). After him are Chaghri Beg (989), Al-Muqanna (800), Mithridates II of Parthia (-150), Andronikos I of Trebizond (1101), Yahya ibn Khalid (701), Jaʻfar ibn Yahya (767), Serdar Berdimuhamedow (1981), Dmitri Shepilov (1905), and Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab (756).

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