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Hamida Banu Begum

1527 - 1604

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Hamida Banu Begum (Persian: حمیده بانو بیگم; c. 1527 – 29 August 1604) was the empress consort of the second Mughal emperor Humayun and the mother of his successor, the third Mughal emperor Akbar. She was bestowed the title of Mariam Makani (lit. 'Dwelling with Mariam'), by her son, Akbar. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hamida Banu Begum has received more than 1,070,149 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Hamida Banu Begum is the 588th most popular companion (up from 683rd in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 53rd in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Companion.

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Among companions, Hamida Banu Begum ranks 588 out of 784. Before her are Junia Claudilla, Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Elizabeth of Hungary, Queen of Serbia, Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Catherine of Austria, Duchess of Calabria, and Alice of Antioch. After her are Princess Elizabeth of Sweden, Beatrice d'Este, Queen of Hungary, Liutgard of Saxony, Iset Ta-Hemdjert, Euphrosyne of Kiev, and Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1527, Hamida Banu Begum ranks 16. Before her are Agnes of Hesse, Luis de León, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Anna Sophia of Prussia, Li Zhi, and Luca Cambiaso. After her are Philippine Welser, Annibale Padovano, Saitō Yoshitatsu, Łukasz Górnicki, and Mikalojus Daukša. Among people deceased in 1604, Hamida Banu Begum ranks 8. Before her are Catherine de Bourbon, Fausto Sozzini, Claudio Merulo, Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, and Christine of Hesse. After her are Ercole, Lord of Monaco, Isabella Andreini, Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Francesco Barozzi, Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg, and Ernest Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Hamida Banu Begum ranks 40 out of 217. Before her are Khema (-550), Amrita Pritam (1919), Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (1964), L. K. Advani (1927), Yahya Khan (1914), and Asif Ali Zardari (1955). After her are Bulleh Shah (1680), Nawaz Sharif (1949), Rahman Baba (1632), Krishna Sobti (1925), Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580), and Lokaksema (147).

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Among COMPANIONS In Pakistan

Among companions born in Pakistan, Hamida Banu Begum ranks 1. 

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