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Haile Selassie

1892 - 1975

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Haile Selassie I (Ge'ez: ቀዳማዊ ኀይለ ሥላሴ, romanized: Qädamawi Ḫäylä Śəllase, Amharic pronunciation: [kʼədäˈmäwi ˈhäjlə sɨlˈläse] , lit. 'Power of the Trinity'; born Tafari Makonnen or Lij Tafari; 23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as the Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (Enderase) under Empress Zewditu between 1916 and 1930. Widely considered to be a defining figure in modern Ethiopian history, he is accorded divine importance in Rastafari, an Abrahamic religion that emerged in the 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Haile Selassie has received more than 12,473,701 page views. His biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). Haile Selassie is the 773rd most popular politician (down from 312th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Ethiopia (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular Ethiopian Politician.

Haile Selassie is most famous for being the emperor of Ethiopia and leading his country to independence from Italy.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 98

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Haile Selassie ranks 773 out of 19,576. Before him are Emperor Gaozu of Tang, Henry III of England, Phocas, Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, and Ferdinand I of Bulgaria. After him are John of Bohemia, Michael VIII Palaiologos, Alexander Lukashenko, John I of France, Edmund Burke, and Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Haile Selassie ranks 9. Before him are Francisco Franco, Manfred von Richthofen, Ivo Andrić, Walter Benjamin, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, and Arthur Seyss-Inquart. After him are Alexander Alekhine, Pearl S. Buck, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Louis de Broglie, Theodor Eicke, and Oliver Hardy. Among people deceased in 1975, Haile Selassie ranks 10. Before him are Chiang Kai-shek, Ivo Andrić, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Umm Kulthum, Aristotle Onassis, and Otto Skorzeny. After him are Josephine Baker, Arnold J. Toynbee, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Saint-John Perse.

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In Ethiopia

Among people born in Ethiopia, Haile Selassie ranks 2 out of 105. Before him are Abebe Bikila (1932). After him are Zewditu (1876), Abraha (600), Menelik II (1844), Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937), Menelik I (-954), Onuphrius (320), Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia (1895), Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (1946), Gebre Mesqel Lalibela (1200), and Sahle-Work Zewde (1950).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ethiopia

Among politicians born in Ethiopia, Haile Selassie ranks 1. After him are Zewditu (1876), Menelik II (1844), Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937), Menelik I (-954), Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia (1895), Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (1946), Gebre Mesqel Lalibela (1200), Sahle-Work Zewde (1950), Girma Wolde-Giorgis (1924), Tewodros II (1818), and Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506).

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