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Iskander Mirza

1899 - 1969

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Sahibzada Iskandar Ali Mirza (13 November 1899 – 13 November 1969) was a Pakistani politician, statesman and military general who served as the Dominion of Pakistan's fourth governor-general of Pakistan from 1955 to 1956, and then as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan's first president from 1956 to 1958. Mirza was educated at the University of Bombay before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. After military service in the British Indian Army, he joined the Indian Political Service and spent the most of his career as a political agent in the Western region of British India until elevated as joint secretary at the Ministry of Defence in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Iskander Mirza has received more than 1,037,880 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Iskander Mirza is the 10,730th most popular politician (down from 9,755th in 2019), the 390th most popular biography from India (down from 335th in 2019) and the 128th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Iskander Mirza ranks 10,730 out of 19,576. Before him are Johann Schneider-Ammann, Elizabeth Warren, Amalaberga, William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Molon, and King Hui of Zhou. After him are Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ernst Trygger, Mirza Kuchik Khan, Bebiankh, Jin of Xia, and I. K. Gujral.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Iskander Mirza ranks 143. Before him are Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, Johan Grøttumsbråten, Carlos Chávez, Norman Taurog, and Yury Olesha. After him are Günther Pancke, Anita Berber, František Tomášek, Sára Salkaházi, Susannah Mushatt Jones, and Suryakant Tripathi. Among people deceased in 1969, Iskander Mirza ranks 111. Before him are Warren Sturgis McCulloch, Josef Beran, Angelina Beloff, Ben Shahn, Abdirashid Shermarke, and Jan Zajíc. After him are José María Arguedas, Gerhard Mitter, Madhubala, Serge Poliakoff, Leopold von Wiese, and Ilse Steppat.

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In India

Among people born in India, Iskander Mirza ranks 390 out of 1,861. Before him are Maithili Sharan Gupt (1886), Ramananda (1400), Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858), Nitish Kumar (1951), Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), and Sumitranandan Pant (1900). After him are Sundar Pichai (1972), Mala Sinha (1936), Rekha (1954), Fatima Jinnah (1893), Jaimini (-390), and S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Iskander Mirza ranks 128. Before him are Girija Prasad Koirala (1924), Dara Shukoh (1615), Gupta (240), Rani Padmini (null), Nitish Kumar (1951), and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892). After him are Fatima Jinnah (1893), B. D. Jatti (1912), Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931), Malik Kafur (1250), Kiran Bedi (1949), and Vichitravirya (null).

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