1613 - 1689
Khošāl Khān Khaṭak (Pashto: خوشال خان خټک; Urdu, Persian: خوشحال خان خٹک; 1613 – 20 February 1689), also known as Khushal Baba (Pashto: خوشال بابا), was a 17th-century Pashtun poet, chief, and warrior. Khushal Khan served the Mughal Empire protecting them from Pashtun warriors over most of his lifespan. After being expelled from his tribal chiefdom and replaced with his son by his Mughal superiors, Khushal Khan turned against the Mughals. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Khushal Khattak has received more than 268,844 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Khushal Khattak is the 2,136th most popular writer (down from 2,105th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 28th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Pakistani Writer.
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Among writers, Khushal Khattak ranks 2,136 out of 5,755. Before him are Abraham ibn Daud, Thorbjørn Egner, Vera Brittain, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Harold Bloom, and Fredrika Bremer. After him are Thomas Gray, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Aleksa Šantić, Suzanne Collins, Christina Rossetti, and Eugène Marin Labiche.
1110 - 1180
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 2,130
1912 - 1990
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 2,131
1893 - 1970
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 2,132
1538 - 1612
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 2,133
1930 - 2019
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 2,134
1801 - 1865
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 2,135
1613 - 1689
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 2,136
1716 - 1771
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 2,137
1833 - 1904
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 2,138
1868 - 1924
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 2,139
1962 - Present
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 2,140
1830 - 1894
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 2,141
1815 - 1888
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 2,142
Among people born in 1613, Khushal Khattak ranks 12. Before him are John George II, Elector of Saxony, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Mattia Preti, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Jean François Paul de Gondi, and Luisa de Guzmán. After him are William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Gaspard Dughet, Gu Yanwu, Charles de Saint-Évremond, Isaac de Benserade, and Jacques d'Arthois. Among people deceased in 1689, Khushal Khattak ranks 13. Before him are Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Thomas Sydenham, Aphra Behn, Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Pjetër Bogdani, and Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. After him are Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Princess Louise of Savoy, Song Si-yeol, and Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.
1613 - 1680
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 6
1613 - 1670
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 7
1613 - 1699
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 8
1613 - 1696
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 9
1613 - 1679
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 10
1613 - 1666
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 11
1613 - 1689
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 12
1613 - 1664
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 13
1613 - 1675
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 14
1613 - 1682
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 15
1613 - 1703
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 16
1613 - 1691
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 17
1613 - 1686
HPI: 48.36
Rank: 18
1629 - 1689
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 7
1624 - 1689
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 8
1640 - 1689
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 9
1635 - 1689
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 10
1630 - 1689
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 11
1605 - 1689
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 12
1613 - 1689
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 13
1636 - 1689
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 14
1634 - 1689
HPI: 54.09
Rank: 15
1641 - 1689
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 16
1627 - 1689
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 17
1607 - 1689
HPI: 52.21
Rank: 18
1609 - 1689
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 19
Among people born in Pakistan, Khushal Khattak ranks 36 out of 180. Before him are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (1964), Naropa (1016), Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309), Gulzarilal Nanda (1898), Khema (-550), and Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1178). After him are Asif Ali Zardari (1955), Dilip Kumar (1922), Amrita Pritam (1919), Taxiles (-400), Milkha Singh (1935), and Yahya Khan (1914).
1964 - Present
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 30
1016 - 1100
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 31
1309 - 1388
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 32
1898 - 1998
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 33
550 BC - Present
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 34
1178 - 1265
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 35
1613 - 1689
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 36
1955 - Present
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 37
1922 - 2021
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 38
1919 - 2005
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 39
400 BC - 360 BC
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 40
1935 - 2021
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 41
1914 - 1980
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 42
Among writers born in Pakistan, Khushal Khattak ranks 3. Before him are Muhammad Iqbal (1877) and Vasubandhu (400). After him are Amrita Pritam (1919), Krishna Sobti (1925), Rahman Baba (1632), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Tariq Ali (1943), Khushwant Singh (1915), Mulk Raj Anand (1905), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), and Parveen Shakir (1952).
1877 - 1938
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 1
400 - 400
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 2
1613 - 1689
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 3
1919 - 2005
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 4
1925 - 2019
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 5
1632 - 1706
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 6
1911 - 1984
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 7
1943 - Present
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 8
1915 - 2014
HPI: 42.83
Rank: 9
1905 - 2004
HPI: 42.24
Rank: 10
1941 - Present
HPI: 42.23
Rank: 11
1952 - 1994
HPI: 36.45
Rank: 12