1889 - 1983
Muhammad Idris bin Muhammad al-Mahdi as-Senussi (Arabic: إدريس, romanized: Idrīs; 13 March 1890 – 25 May 1983) was a Libyan political and religious leader who was King of Libya from 24 December 1951 until his overthrow on 1 September 1969. He ruled over the United Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1963, after which the country became known as simply the Kingdom of Libya. Idris had served as Emir of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania from the 1920s until 1951. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Idris of Libya has received more than 945,601 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Idris of Libya is the 1,125th most popular politician (down from 1,064th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Libya and the 3rd most popular Libyan Politician.
Idris of Libya was most famous for being the King of Libya from 1951 to 1969. He was overthrown in a coup in 1969 and died in exile in Egypt in 1983.
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Among politicians, Idris of Libya ranks 1,125 out of 15,577. Before him are Ur-Nammu, Eric Bloodaxe, Vidkun Quisling, Ilham Aliyev, Wang Mang, and Piero di Cosimo de' Medici. After him are Albert II of Germany, William II of the Netherlands, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain, Mohammad Mosaddegh, and Ahmed Ben Bella.
2200 BC - 2094 BC
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 1,119
885 - 954
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 1,120
1887 - 1945
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 1,121
1961 - Present
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 1,122
45 BC - 23
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 1,123
1416 - 1469
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 1,124
1889 - 1983
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 1,125
1397 - 1439
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 1,126
1792 - 1849
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 1,127
1936 - 2019
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 1,128
1549 - 1580
HPI: 68.78
Rank: 1,129
1882 - 1967
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 1,130
1916 - 2012
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 1,131
Among people born in 1889, Idris of Libya ranks 13. Before him are Jean Cocteau, Edwin Hubble, Anna Akhmatova, Arnold J. Toynbee, Ante Pavelić, and Vaslav Nijinsky. After him are Manuel II of Portugal, Igor Sikorsky, Otto Frank, Gabriel Marcel, Carl von Ossietzky, and Paul Karrer. Among people deceased in 1983, Idris of Libya ranks 8. Before him are Joan Miró, Garrincha, Luis Buñuel, Leopold III of Belgium, Umberto II of Italy, and Hergé. After him are Tennessee Williams, Jon Brower Minnoch, David Niven, Meyer Lansky, Nikolai Podgorny, and Felix Bloch.
1889 - 1963
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 7
1889 - 1953
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 8
1889 - 1966
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 9
1889 - 1975
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 10
1889 - 1959
HPI: 70.80
Rank: 11
1889 - 1950
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 12
1889 - 1983
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 13
1889 - 1932
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 14
1889 - 1972
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 15
1889 - 1980
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 16
1889 - 1973
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 17
1889 - 1938
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 18
1889 - 1971
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 19
1893 - 1983
HPI: 77.81
Rank: 2
1933 - 1983
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 3
1900 - 1983
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 4
1901 - 1983
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 5
1904 - 1983
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 6
1907 - 1983
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 7
1889 - 1983
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 8
1911 - 1983
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 9
1941 - 1983
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 10
1910 - 1983
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 11
1902 - 1983
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 12
1903 - 1983
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 13
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 14
Among people born in Libya, Idris of Libya ranks 9 out of 64. Before him are Mark the Evangelist (10), Arius (256), Septimius Severus (145), Aristippus (-434), Omar Mukhtar (1858), and Callimachus (-310). After him are Simon of Cyrene (-100), Pope Victor I (100), Carneades (-214), Khalifa Haftar (1943), Synesius (370), and Berenice II of Egypt (-267).
10 - 68
HPI: 77.73
Rank: 3
256 - 336
HPI: 76.84
Rank: 4
145 - 211
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 5
434 BC - 355 BC
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 6
1858 - 1931
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 7
310 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 69.42
Rank: 8
1889 - 1983
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 9
100 BC - 100
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 10
100 - 199
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 11
214 BC - 129 BC
HPI: 65.25
Rank: 12
1943 - Present
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 13
370 - 413
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 14
267 BC - 221 BC
HPI: 62.84
Rank: 15
Among politicians born in Libya, Idris of Libya ranks 3. Before him are Muammar Gaddafi (1942) and Septimius Severus (145). After him are Simon of Cyrene (-100), Fayez al-Sarraj (1960), Pedubast I (-900), Gaius Fulvius Plautianus (150), Ptolemy Apion (-101), Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (1972), Aguila Saleh Issa (1944), Baghdadi Mahmudi (1945), and Hodierna of Jerusalem (1110).
1942 - 2011
HPI: 82.87
Rank: 1
145 - 211
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 2
1889 - 1983
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 3
100 BC - 100
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 4
1960 - Present
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 5
900 BC - 793 BC
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 6
150 - 205
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 7
101 BC - 96 BC
HPI: 53.82
Rank: 8
1972 - Present
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 9
1944 - Present
HPI: 53.27
Rank: 10
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.26
Rank: 11
1110 - 1164
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 12