NOBLEMAN

Humaira Begum

1918 - 2002

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Humaira Begum (Persian: حميرا بیگم; 24 July 1918 – 26 June 2002) was the wife and first cousin of King Mohammed Zahir Shah and the last Queen of Afghanistan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Humaira Begum has received more than 257,378 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Humaira Begum is the 719th most popular nobleman (down from 350th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 50th in 2019) and the most popular Afghan Nobleman.

Memorability Metrics

  • 260k

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  • 54.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Humaira Begum ranks 719 out of 1,415Before her are Pons, Count of Toulouse, Philippine Welser, Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme, Adolf III of the Marck, John II, Burgrave of Nuremberg, and William of Winchester, Lord of Lunenburg. After her are Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, Margaret of Austria, Electress of Saxony, Herman I, Duke of Swabia, Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, Conrad I, Duke of Swabia, and Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Humaira Begum ranks 121Before her are Adolfo Pedernera, Willi Graf, Dora Ratjen, Ángel Labruna, Antonín Mrkos, and Alejandro Agustín Lanusse. After her are Kevin A. Lynch, George Mosse, David Ausubel, Abraham Robinson, Hella Haasse, and Alexander Shelepin. Among people deceased in 2002, Humaira Begum ranks 112Before her are Domènec Balmanya, Barbara Valentin, Joseph Bonanno, Brad Dexter, Joseph Luns, and John Cocke. After her are Zaid ibn Shaker, Herb Ritts, Dudley Moore, David Riesman, Michel Henry, and Daniel Gélin.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Humaira Begum ranks 76 out of 177Before her are Khvandamir (1475), Jalaluddin Haqqani (1939), Diodotus II (-252), Abdullah Abdullah (1960), Mohammad Afzal Khan (1811), and Diodotus I (-285). After her are Mawdud of Ghazni (1012), Al-Sijzi (945), Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza (1422), Gulbadan Begum (1523), Abdul Ali Mazari (1946), and Unsuri (980).

Among NOBLEMEN In Afghanistan

Among noblemen born in Afghanistan, Humaira Begum ranks 1