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Hussein Onn

1922 - 1990

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Tun Hussein bin Dato' Onn (Jawi: حسين بن عون; 12 February 1922 – 29 May 1990) was a Malaysian lawyer and politician who served as the third prime minister of Malaysia from the death of his predecessor Abdul Razak Hussein in 1976 to his retirement in 1981. Moreover, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sri Gading from 1974 to 1981, representing Barisan Nasional (BN) and United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hussein Onn has received more than 737,169 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Hussein Onn is the 5,851st most popular politician (up from 7,049th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Malaysia (up from 10th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Malaysian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hussein Onn ranks 5,851 out of 15,577Before him are Sahadeva, Nuno Álvares Pereira, Di Yi, Michel Suleiman, Félix Tshisekedi, and Eurydice I of Macedon. After him are Otto I, Duke of Carinthia, Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, Guy Verhofstadt, Alexander I of Scotland, Zeki Velidi Togan, and Antonio Cánovas del Castillo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Hussein Onn ranks 98Before him are Árpád Göncz, Yvonne De Carlo, Salvatore Giuliano, Yuri Averbakh, Jean-Pierre Rampal, and Paul Marcinkus. After him are Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Carlos Andrés Pérez, Alistair MacLean, Michael Ventris, José Froilán González, and Sven Nykvist. Among people deceased in 1990, Hussein Onn ranks 58Before him are Stevie Ray Vaughan, Philippe Soupault, Sammy Davis Jr., John Stewart Bell, Viktor Tsoi, and Volodymyr Shcherbytsky. After him are Jim Henson, Lewis Mumford, Sergei Dovlatov, Angelo Schiavio, Delphine Seyrig, and Samuel Noah Kramer.

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In Malaysia

Among people born in Malaysia, Hussein Onn ranks 8 out of 74Before him are Tunku Abdul Rahman (1903), Michael Gough (1916), Abdul Halim of Kedah (1927), Michelle Yeoh (1962), Abdul Razak Hussein (1922), and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (1939). After him are Muhyiddin Yassin (1947), Jimmy Choo (1948), Najib Razak (1953), Abdullah of Pahang (1959), Yusof Ishak (1910), and Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan (1895).

Among POLITICIANS In Malaysia

Among politicians born in Malaysia, Hussein Onn ranks 6Before him are Mahathir Mohamad (1925), Tunku Abdul Rahman (1903), Abdul Halim of Kedah (1927), Abdul Razak Hussein (1922), and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (1939). After him are Muhyiddin Yassin (1947), Najib Razak (1953), Abdullah of Pahang (1959), Yusof Ishak (1910), Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan (1895), and Ahmad Shah of Pahang (1930).