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POLITICIAN

Jalal Talabani

1933 - 2017

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Jalal Talabani (Kurdish: مام جەلال تاڵەبانی, romanized: Celal Talebanî; Arabic: جلال طالباني Jalāl Ṭālabānī; 1933 – 3 October 2017) was an Iraqi 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 1,490,111 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Jalal Talabani is the 1,092nd most popular politician (down from 1,029th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Iraq (down from 28th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Iraqi Politician.

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

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  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jalal Talabani ranks 1,092 out of 15,577. Before him are Theodoric the Great, Sunjo of Joseon, Klement Gottwald, Hassan Rouhani, Afonso V of Portugal, and Constans II. After him are Charles XV of Sweden, Isaac II Angelos, Rani of Jhansi, Yu the Great, James Buchanan, and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Jalal Talabani ranks 19. Before him are Nina Simone, Amartya Sen, Claudio Abbado, Abolhassan Banisadr, Tinto Brass, and Philip Roth. After him are Susan Sontag, Just Fontaine, Lina Medina, Paul Biya, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Heinrich Rohrer. Among people deceased in 2017, Jalal Talabani ranks 14. Before him are David Rockefeller, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jeanne Moreau, Salvatore Riina, Raymond Kopa, and Chuck Berry. After him are Hugh Hefner, John Hurt, Mireille Darc, Manuel Noriega, Johnny Hallyday, and Glen Campbell.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Jalal Talabani ranks 32 out of 338. Before him are Nur ad-Din (1116), Idris (-3500), Fuzûlî (1494), Gudea (-2200), Muhammad al-Mahdi (869), and Nabopolassar (-658). After him are Ismail al-Jazari (1136), Ur-Nammu (-2200), Ahmad ibn Fadlan (900), Eber (-2038), Möngke Khan (1209), and Antiochus I Soter (-324).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Jalal Talabani ranks 16. Before him are Nebuchadnezzar I (-1200), Khosrow II (570), Al-Ma'mun (786), Nur ad-Din (1116), Gudea (-2200), and Nabopolassar (-658). After him are Ur-Nammu (-2200), Möngke Khan (1209), Antiochus I Soter (-324), Suleyman Shah (1178), Shalmaneser III (-900), and Al-Mu'tasim (796).

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