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Kamose

1600 BC - 1549 BC

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Kamose was the last Pharaoh of the Theban Seventeenth Dynasty. He was possibly the son of Seqenenre Tao and Ahhotep I and the brother of Ahmose I, founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty. His reign fell at the very end of the Second Intermediate Period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kamose has received more than 374,965 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Kamose is the 1,721st most popular politician (down from 1,686th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 97th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Egyptian Politician.

Kamose is most famous for leading the rebellion against the Hyksos in the 18th Dynasty.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kamose ranks 1,721 out of 19,576Before him are Gongmin of Goryeo, Walther Rathenau, Werner von Fritsch, Jehu, Fumio Kishida, and Demetrius I of Macedon. After him are Conrad I of Germany, Henry II of Navarre, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Bao Zheng, and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1600 BC, Kamose ranks 2Before him is Thutmose I. After him are Seqenenre Tao, Senenmut, Telipinu, Apepi, Senakhtenre Ahmose, Tetisheri, Zhong Ding, Ammuna, He Dan Jia, and Zidanta I. Among people deceased in 1549 BC, Kamose ranks 1After him are Apepi, and Yi Yin.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Kamose ranks 105 out of 642Before him are Ctesibius (-284), Djet (-3000), Mohamed ElBaradei (1942), Ramesses VI (-1175), Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (1935), and Meritaten (-1400). After him are Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani (1372), Shepseskaf (-2600), Seti II (-1300), Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator (-152), Dorothy Hodgkin (1910), and Amasis II (-700).

Among POLITICIANS In Egypt

Among politicians born in Egypt, Kamose ranks 40Before him are Teti (-2350), Psamtik I (-700), Isma'il Pasha (1830), Userkaf (-2600), Cleopatra III of Egypt (-161), and Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (1935). After him are Shepseskaf (-2600), Seti II (-1300), Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator (-152), Amasis II (-700), Ka (-3200), and Sekhemkhet (-2800).