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Jalal Talabani

1933 - 2017

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Jalal Talabani (Kurdish: مام جەلال تاڵەبانی, romanized: Celal Talebanî; Arabic: جلال طالباني Jalāl Ṭālabānī; 12 November 1933 – 3 October 2017) was an Kurdistanî politician who served as the sixth president of Iraq from 2005 to 2014, as well as the president of the Governing Council of Iraq. He was ethnically Kurdish. Talabani was the founder and secretary-general of one of the main Kurdish political parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jalal Talabani has received more than 1,567,489 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia. Jalal Talabani is the 854th most popular politician (up from 1,090th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 31st in 2019) and the 14th most popular Iraqi Politician.

Jalal Talabani is most famous for being the president of Iraq from 2005-2014.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jalal Talabani ranks 854 out of 19,576. Before him are Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, George II of Greece, Amadeo I of Spain, and Antigonus I Monophthalmus. After him are Gordian III, Gwangjong of Goryeo, Barbara of Cilli, Rudolf I of Germany, William III of England, and Diane de Poitiers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Jalal Talabani ranks 13. Before him are Montserrat Caballé, Yoko Ono, Lina Medina, Michael Caine, Tinto Brass, and Claudio Abbado. After him are James Brown, Just Fontaine, Corazon Aquino, Nina Simone, Amartya Sen, and Heinrich Rohrer. Among people deceased in 2017, Jalal Talabani ranks 11. Before him are Stanislav Petrov, Gene Cernan, Zygmunt Bauman, Salvatore Riina, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and David Rockefeller. After him are Raymond Kopa, Chuck Berry, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Liliane Bettencourt, Jerry Lewis, and Jeanne Moreau.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Jalal Talabani ranks 28 out of 384. Before him are Sargon II (-750), Ahmad Sanjar (1100), Khosrow II (570), Fuzûlî (1494), Al-Ma'mun (786), and Muhammad al-Mahdi (869). After him are Ismail al-Jazari (1136), Belshazzar (-600), Al-Ash'ari (873), Gudea (-2200), Möngke Khan (1209), and Al-Mu'tasim (796).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Jalal Talabani ranks 14. Before him are Nur ad-Din (1116), Nebuchadnezzar I (-1200), Alexander IV of Macedon (-323), Sargon II (-750), Khosrow II (570), and Al-Ma'mun (786). After him are Gudea (-2200), Möngke Khan (1209), Al-Mu'tasim (796), Antiochus I Soter (-324), Ur-Nammu (-2200), and Al-Musta'sim (1213).

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