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Hafez al-Assad

1930 - 2000

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Hafez al-Assad (6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian statesman, military officer and revolutionary who served as the 18th president of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000. He had previously served as prime minister of Syria from 1970 to 1971 as well as regional secretary of the regional command of the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and secretary general of the National Command of the Ba'ath Party from 1970 to 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hafez al-Assad has received more than 3,807,342 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Hafez al-Assad is the 495th most popular politician (down from 376th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Syria (down from 2nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Syrian Politician.

Hafez al-Assad is most famous for being the president of Syria from 1971 to 2000.

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  • 73.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 74

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.68

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hafez al-Assad ranks 495 out of 15,577. Before him are Macrinus, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Yazid I, Cnut the Great, Tahmasp I, and John II of France. After him are Christian VII of Denmark, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Heraklonas, Sukarno, Frederick William I of Prussia, and Abdulmejid II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Hafez al-Assad ranks 13. Before him are Helmut Kohl, George Soros, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-Luc Godard, Ray Charles, and Jacques Derrida. After him are Steve McQueen, Buzz Aldrin, Mobutu Sese Seko, Baudouin of Belgium, Gene Hackman, and Salvatore Riina. Among people deceased in 2000, Hafez al-Assad ranks 1. After him are Hedy Lamarr, Władysław Szpilman, Ingrid of Sweden, Habib Bourguiba, Victor Borge, Alec Guinness, Emil Zátopek, Roger Vadim, Stanley Matthews, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and Lída Baarová.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Hafez al-Assad ranks 5 out of 181. Before him are Elagabalus (203), Zenobia (240), John of Damascus (676), and Yazid I (647). After him are Abd al-Rahman I (731), Philip the Arab (204), Pope Anicetus (70), Apollodorus of Damascus (50), Bashar al-Assad (1965), Ibn Kathir (1301), and Pope Gregory III (700).

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Among POLITICIANS In Syria

Among politicians born in Syria, Hafez al-Assad ranks 4. Before him are Elagabalus (203), Zenobia (240), and Yazid I (647). After him are Abd al-Rahman I (731), Philip the Arab (204), Bashar al-Assad (1965), Muawiya II (661), Marwan II (688), Imad ad-Din Zengi (1087), Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (691), and Musa ibn Nusayr (640).

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