1889 - 1983
Idris (Arabic: إدريس الأول; El Sayyid Prince Muhammad Idris bin Muhammad al-Mahdi as-Senussi; 12 March 1889 – 25 May 1983) was a Libyan political and religious leader who served as the Emir of Cyrenaica and then as the King of United Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1969. He was the chief of the Senussi Muslim order. Idris was born into the Senussi Order. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Idris of Libya has received more than 663,797 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Idris of Libya is the 1,065th most popular politician (down from 855th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Libya (down from 7th in 2019) and the 4th 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 1,065 out of 15,710. Before him are Xianfeng Emperor, Jugurtha, Dagobert I, Louis I of Spain, Himiko, and Aristides. After him are Zacchaeus, Frederick I of Sweden, Grigory Zinoviev, Pedro II of Brazil, Octavia the Younger, and Li Si.
1831 - 1861
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 1,059
160 BC - 104 BC
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 1,060
611 - 639
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 1,061
1707 - 1724
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 1,062
175 - 248
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 1,063
550 BC - 467 BC
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 1,064
1889 - 1983
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 1,065
50 - 100
HPI: 76.12
Rank: 1,066
1676 - 1751
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 1,067
1883 - 1936
HPI: 76.09
Rank: 1,068
1825 - 1891
HPI: 76.09
Rank: 1,069
69 BC - 11 BC
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 1,070
280 BC - 208 BC
HPI: 76.07
Rank: 1,071
Among people born in 1889, Idris of Libya ranks 14. Before him are Jawaharlal Nehru, Ante Pavelić, Anna Akhmatova, Arnold J. Toynbee, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Igor Sikorsky. After him are Manuel II of Portugal, Carl von Ossietzky, Gabriel Marcel, Otto Frank, Gabriela Mistral, and Paul Karrer. Among people deceased in 1983, Idris of Libya ranks 8. Before him are Garrincha, Louis de Funès, Luis Buñuel, Leopold III of Belgium, Umberto II of Italy, and Hergé. After him are Tennessee Williams, Felix Bloch, Buckminster Fuller, David Niven, Arthur Koestler, and Raymond Aron.
1889 - 1964
HPI: 81.35
Rank: 8
1889 - 1959
HPI: 78.83
Rank: 9
1889 - 1966
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 10
1889 - 1975
HPI: 77.45
Rank: 11
1889 - 1950
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 12
1889 - 1972
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 13
1889 - 1983
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 14
1889 - 1932
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 15
1889 - 1938
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 16
1889 - 1973
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 17
1889 - 1980
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 18
1889 - 1957
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 19
1889 - 1971
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 20
1933 - 1983
HPI: 82.90
Rank: 2
1914 - 1983
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 3
1900 - 1983
HPI: 80.29
Rank: 4
1901 - 1983
HPI: 79.19
Rank: 5
1904 - 1983
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 6
1907 - 1983
HPI: 77.32
Rank: 7
1889 - 1983
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 8
1911 - 1983
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 9
1905 - 1983
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 10
1895 - 1983
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 11
1910 - 1983
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 12
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 13
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 14
Among people born in Libya, Idris of Libya ranks 9 out of 59. Before him are Septimius Severus (145), Arius (256), Mark the Evangelist (10), Aristippus (-434), Simon of Cyrene (-100), and Callimachus (-310). After him are Omar Mukhtar (1858), Khalifa Haftar (1943), Pope Victor I (100), Carneades (-214), Berenice II of Egypt (-267), and Synesius (370).
145 - 211
HPI: 83.38
Rank: 3
256 - 336
HPI: 82.49
Rank: 4
10 - 68
HPI: 82.38
Rank: 5
434 BC - 355 BC
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 6
100 BC - 100
HPI: 77.43
Rank: 7
310 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 8
1889 - 1983
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 9
1858 - 1931
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 10
1943 - Present
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 11
100 - 199
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 12
214 BC - 129 BC
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 13
267 BC - 221 BC
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 14
370 - 413
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 15
Among politicians born in Libya, Idris of Libya ranks 4. Before him are Muammar Gaddafi (1942), Septimius Severus (145), and Simon of Cyrene (-100). After him are Fayez al-Sarraj (1960), Abdurrahim El-Keib (1950), Pedubast I (-900), Ptolemy Apion (-101), Mahmoud Jibril (1952), Gaius Fulvius Plautianus (150), Baghdadi Mahmudi (1945), and Mustafa Abdul Jalil (1952).
1942 - 2011
HPI: 85.44
Rank: 1
145 - 211
HPI: 83.38
Rank: 2
100 BC - 100
HPI: 77.43
Rank: 3
1889 - 1983
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 4
1960 - Present
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 5
1950 - 2020
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 6
900 BC - 793 BC
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 7
101 BC - 96 BC
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 8
1952 - Present
HPI: 63.83
Rank: 9
150 - 205
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 10
1945 - Present
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 11
1952 - Present
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 12