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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

1956 - Today

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born Mahmoud Sabbaghian on 28 October 1956) is an Iranian principlist and nationalist politician who served as the sixth president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. He is currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He was known for his hardline views and nuclearisation of Iran. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has received more than 4,667,483 page views. His biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 105 in 2019). Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the 795th most popular politician (up from 1,180th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Iran (up from 52nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Iranian Politician.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is most famous for being the president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. He also served as the mayor of Tehran from 2003 to 2005.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 106

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ranks 795 out of 19,576. Before him are William III of the Netherlands, Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, İsmet İnönü, Enrico Dandolo, Robert the Bruce, and Tony Blair. After him are Eduard Bernstein, Walter Ulbricht, Tamar of Georgia, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Hideki Tojo, and Gro Harlem Brundtland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ranks 4. Before him are Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson, and Frank-Walter Steinmeier. After him are Steve Ballmer, Lars von Trier, Christoph Waltz, Björn Borg, Michel Houellebecq, Tsai Ing-wen, Christine Lagarde, and Paolo Rossi.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ranks 40 out of 631. Before him are Darius II (-475), Nizam al-Mulk (1018), Shams Tabrizi (1185), Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201), Antiochus III the Great (-241), and Saadi Shirazi (1210). After him are Qasem Soleimani (1957), Jami (1414), Farah Pahlavi (1938), Shapur I (150), Ardashir I (180), and Cambyses I (-600).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ranks 17. Before him are Khosrow I (501), Reza Shah (1878), Hassan Rouhani (1948), Darius II (-475), Nizam al-Mulk (1018), and Antiochus III the Great (-241). After him are Farah Pahlavi (1938), Shapur I (150), Ardashir I (180), Cambyses I (-600), Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247), and Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882).

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