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Hussein-Ali Montazeri

1922 - 2009

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Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri (Persian: حسینعلی منتظری‎ [hosejnæˈliːje montæzeˈɾiː] ; 24 September 1922 – 19 December 2009) was an Iranian Shia Islamic theologian, Islamic democracy advocate, writer, and human rights activist. He was one of the leaders of the Iranian Revolution and one of the highest-ranking authorities in Shīʿite Islam. He was once the designated successor to the revolution's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini; they had a falling-out in 1989 over government policies that Montazeri claimed infringed on people's freedom and denied them their rights, especially after the 1988 mass execution of political prisoners. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hussein-Ali Montazeri has received more than 432,494 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Hussein-Ali Montazeri is the 4,200th most popular politician (up from 5,145th in 2019), the 148th most popular biography from Iran (up from 158th in 2019) and the 85th most popular Iranian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hussein-Ali Montazeri ranks 4,200 out of 19,576. Before him are Kerbogha, King You of Zhou, Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia, Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Jani Beg, and Zumbi. After him are Tonyukuk, Ajatashatru, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Peter II of Sicily, Ladislaus Hunyadi, and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Hussein-Ali Montazeri ranks 63. Before him are Jake LaMotta, Blake Edwards, Alberto Granado, Oskar Werner, Marek Edelman, and Ken Noritake. After him are Lucian Freud, Ugo Tognazzi, Adolfo Celi, Enrico Berlinguer, Rajko Mitić, and Toots Thielemans. Among people deceased in 2009, Hussein-Ali Montazeri ranks 39. Before him are Jennifer Jones, Leszek Kołakowski, Juan Almeida Bosque, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Ephraim Katzir, and Marek Edelman. After him are John Updike, Amin al-Hafiz, Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, Norman Borlaug, Ertuğrul Osman, and Qian Xuesen.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Hussein-Ali Montazeri ranks 148 out of 631. Before him are Suleiman of Persia (1647), Ata-Malik Juvayni (1226), Al-Juwayni (1028), Teispes (-675), Phraates IV (-90), and Al-Bayhaqi (994). After him are Forough Farrokhzad (1935), Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Dariush Mehrjui (1939), Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni (864), Amytis of Media (-630), and Al-Khazini (1077).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Hussein-Ali Montazeri ranks 85. Before him are Arsaces I of Parthia (-280), Osroes I (50), Suleiman of Persia (1647), Ata-Malik Juvayni (1226), Teispes (-675), and Phraates IV (-90). After him are Amytis of Media (-630), Vologases IV (150), Shapour Bakhtiar (1914), Vologases VI (200), Ashraf Pahlavi (1919), and Abbas Mirza (1789).

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