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Hassan Nasrallah

1960 - 2024

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Hassan Nasrallah (Arabic: حسن نصر الله, romanized: Ḥasan Naṣr-Allāh, pronounced [ˈħasan nasˤraˈɫːaːh]; 31 August 1960 – 27 September 2024) was a Lebanese cleric and politician who served as the third secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militia, from 1992 until his assassination in 2024. Born into a Shia family in the suburbs of Beirut in 1960, Nasrallah finished his education in Tyre, when he briefly joined the Amal Movement, and afterward at a Shia seminary in Baalbek. He later studied and taught at an Amal school. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hassan Nasrallah has received more than 4,748,403 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Hassan Nasrallah is the 1,624th most popular politician (up from 4,395th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Lebanon (up from 24th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Lebanese Politician.

Hassan Nasrallah is the leader of Hezbollah, a political and militant group in Lebanon. He is most famous for his vocal opposition to Israel and the United States, and for his support of the Syrian government during the Syrian Civil War.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hassan Nasrallah ranks 1,624 out of 19,576Before him are Ferdinand I of Aragon, Otto of Greece, Emeric Thököly, George Tupou V, Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria, and Hedwig of Silesia. After him are Lala Mustafa Pasha, Gelimer, Paul Bocuse, Victoria of Baden, Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, and Klaus Iohannis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Hassan Nasrallah ranks 14Before him are Antonio Banderas, Yulia Tymoshenko, Jo Nesbø, Isaac Herzog, Joachim Löw, and Pierluigi Collina. After him are Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Franco Baresi, Kenneth Branagh, and Sean Penn. Among people deceased in 2024, Hassan Nasrallah ranks 19Before him are Ismail Kadare, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, Ismail Haniyeh, O. J. Simpson, and Arno Allan Penzias. After him are Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Françoise Hardy, Sebastián Piñera, Alexei Navalny, Luigi Riva, and Akira Toriyama.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah ranks 13 out of 145Before him are Ulpian (170), Michel Aoun (1935), Charbel Makhlouf (1828), Rafic Hariri (1944), Christina of Bolsena (210), and Fairuz (1935). After him are Pope Constantine (664), Najib Mikati (1955), Bachir Gemayel (1947), Amin Maalouf (1949), Eusebius of Nicomedia (280), and Émile Lahoud (1936).

Among POLITICIANS In Lebanon

Among politicians born in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah ranks 6Before him are Severus Alexander (208), Ahab (-900), Dido (-879), Michel Aoun (1935), and Rafic Hariri (1944). After him are Najib Mikati (1955), Bachir Gemayel (1947), Émile Lahoud (1936), Amine Gemayel (1942), Pierre Gemayel (1905), and Fouad Siniora (1943).