1923 - 2003
Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev (Azerbaijani: Heydər Əlirza oğlu Əliyev, IPA: [hejˈdæɾ æliɾˈzɑ oɣˈlu æˈlijef]; Russian: Гейда́р Али́евич Али́ев, IPA: [ɡʲɪjˈdar ɐˈlʲijɪvʲɪtɕ ɐˈlʲijɪf]; 10 May 1923 – 12 December 2003) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani politician who served as the third president of Azerbaijan from October 1993 to October 2003. Originally a high-ranking official in the KGB of the Azerbaijan SSR, serving for 28 years in Soviet state security organs (1941–1969), he led Soviet Azerbaijan from 1969 to 1982 and held the post of First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1987. Aliyev became president of independent Azerbaijan while the country was on the brink of civil war and suffering serious losses in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War with neighboring Armenia. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heydar Aliyev has received more than 899,691 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Heydar Aliyev is the 704th most popular politician (up from 708th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Azerbaijani Politician.
Heydar Aliyev was the president of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2003. He was also a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and served as the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan.
Page Views (PV)
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Languages Editions (L)
Effective Languages (L*)
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among politicians, Heydar Aliyev ranks 704 out of 15,710. Before him are Paul of Greece, Gallienus, Saparmurat Niyazov, Robert II of France, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, and Afonso I of Portugal. After him are Ögedei Khan, Malik-Shah I, Vytautas, Mary of Hungary, Konstantin von Neurath, and Ahmose I.
1901 - 1964
HPI: 77.93
Rank: 698
218 - 268
HPI: 77.93
Rank: 699
1940 - 2006
HPI: 77.92
Rank: 700
972 - 1031
HPI: 77.91
Rank: 701
700 BC - 579 BC
HPI: 77.91
Rank: 702
1109 - 1185
HPI: 77.90
Rank: 703
1923 - 2003
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 704
1185 - 1241
HPI: 77.87
Rank: 705
1055 - 1092
HPI: 77.87
Rank: 706
1352 - 1430
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 707
1505 - 1558
HPI: 77.85
Rank: 708
1873 - 1956
HPI: 77.84
Rank: 709
1560 BC - 1525 BC
HPI: 77.83
Rank: 710
Among people born in 1923, Heydar Aliyev ranks 10. Before him are Shimon Peres, Idi Amin, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Charlton Heston, Wisława Szymborska, and Rocky Marciano. After him are Irma Grese, Italo Calvino, Roy Lichtenstein, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Nadine Gordimer, and Peter II of Yugoslavia. Among people deceased in 2003, Heydar Aliyev ranks 8. Before him are Charles Bronson, Katharine Hepburn, Leni Riefenstahl, Idi Amin, Gregory Peck, and Alija Izetbegović. After him are Barry White, Robert K. Merton, Nina Simone, Edward Teller, Edward Said, and Ilya Prigogine.
1923 - 2016
HPI: 81.48
Rank: 4
1923 - 2003
HPI: 80.04
Rank: 5
1923 - 2005
HPI: 79.46
Rank: 6
1923 - 2008
HPI: 78.67
Rank: 7
1923 - 2012
HPI: 78.20
Rank: 8
1923 - 1969
HPI: 77.96
Rank: 9
1923 - 2003
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 10
1923 - 1945
HPI: 77.21
Rank: 11
1923 - 1985
HPI: 76.85
Rank: 12
1923 - 1997
HPI: 76.42
Rank: 13
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 14
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 15
1923 - 1970
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 16
1921 - 2003
HPI: 81.50
Rank: 2
1907 - 2003
HPI: 80.85
Rank: 3
1902 - 2003
HPI: 80.52
Rank: 4
1923 - 2003
HPI: 80.04
Rank: 5
1916 - 2003
HPI: 78.76
Rank: 6
1925 - 2003
HPI: 78.64
Rank: 7
1923 - 2003
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 8
1944 - 2003
HPI: 77.76
Rank: 9
1910 - 2003
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 10
1933 - 2003
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 11
1908 - 2003
HPI: 75.92
Rank: 12
1935 - 2003
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 13
1917 - 2003
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 14
Among people born in Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev ranks 3 out of 159. Before him are Nizami Ganjavi (1141) and Richard Sorge (1895). After him are Lev Landau (1908), Mstislav Rostropovich (1927), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Zecharia Sitchin (1920), Garry Kasparov (1963), Arghun (1250), Ilham Aliyev (1961), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), and Ivan Bagramyan (1897).
1141 - 1209
HPI: 79.50
Rank: 1
1895 - 1944
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 2
1923 - 2003
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 3
1908 - 1968
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 4
1927 - 2007
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 5
1369 - 1417
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 6
1920 - 2010
HPI: 74.54
Rank: 7
1963 - Present
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 8
1250 - 1291
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 9
1961 - Present
HPI: 72.98
Rank: 10
1901 - 1932
HPI: 72.98
Rank: 11
1897 - 1982
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 12
Among politicians born in Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev ranks 1. After him are Arghun (1250), Ilham Aliyev (1961), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), Abulfaz Elchibey (1938), Serzh Sargsyan (1954), Ayaz Mutallibov (1938), Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh (1884), Artur Rasizade (1935), Garegin Nzhdeh (1886), Robert Kocharyan (1954), and Fatali Khan Khoyski (1875).
1923 - 2003
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 1
1250 - 1291
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 2
1961 - Present
HPI: 72.98
Rank: 3
1901 - 1932
HPI: 72.98
Rank: 4
1938 - 2000
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 5
1954 - Present
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 6
1938 - Present
HPI: 70.14
Rank: 7
1884 - 1955
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 8
1935 - Present
HPI: 69.84
Rank: 9
1886 - 1955
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 10
1954 - Present
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 11
1875 - 1920
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 12