1878 - 1956
Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji (Kurdish: شێخ مهحموود بەرزنجی) or Mahmud Hafid Zadeh (1878 – October 9, 1956) was a Kurdish leader of a series of Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq. He was sheikh of a Qadiriyah Sufi family of the Barzanji clan from the city of Sulaymaniyah, which is now in Iraqi Kurdistan. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahmud Barzanji has received more than 199,941 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Mahmud Barzanji is the 4,793rd most popular politician (up from 5,085th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 124th in 2019) and the 75th most popular Iraqi Politician.
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Among politicians, Mahmud Barzanji ranks 4,793 out of 15,577. Before him are Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, Dayan Khan, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, José López Portillo y Pacheco, Emperor Yōmei, and Norodom Suramarit. After him are Liu Zhang, Hiram Bingham III, Walter Mondale, Carola of Vasa, Franz Mehring, and Roza Otunbayeva.
1489 - 1544
HPI: 58.89
Rank: 4,787
1464 - 1517
HPI: 58.89
Rank: 4,788
1784 - 1806
HPI: 58.89
Rank: 4,789
1920 - 2004
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 4,790
540 - 587
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 4,791
1896 - 1960
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 4,792
1878 - 1956
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 4,793
200 - 219
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 4,794
1875 - 1956
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 4,795
1928 - 2021
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 4,796
1833 - 1907
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 4,797
1846 - 1919
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 4,798
1950 - Present
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 4,799
Among people born in 1878, Mahmud Barzanji ranks 38. Before him are Marcel Grossmann, Jan Łukasiewicz, George Whipple, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Georg Kaiser, and Clemens August Graf von Galen. After him are Slavko Kvaternik, Yosano Akiko, Stepan Shaumian, James Oliver Curwood, Angelica Balabanoff, and Carlos Saavedra Lamas. Among people deceased in 1956, Mahmud Barzanji ranks 45. Before him are Gustave Charpentier, Giovanni Papini, Jan Łukasiewicz, Gottfried Benn, Savielly Tartakower, and Art Tatum. After him are Hiram Bingham III, Erich Kleiber, Otto Schmidt, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Alben W. Barkley, and Thomas J. Watson.
1878 - 1936
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 32
1878 - 1956
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 33
1878 - 1976
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 34
1878 - 1947
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 35
1878 - 1945
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 36
1878 - 1946
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 37
1878 - 1956
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 38
1878 - 1947
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 39
1878 - 1942
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 40
1878 - 1918
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 41
1878 - 1927
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 42
1878 - 1965
HPI: 58.49
Rank: 43
1878 - 1959
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 44
1860 - 1956
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 39
1881 - 1956
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 40
1878 - 1956
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 41
1886 - 1956
HPI: 59.24
Rank: 42
1887 - 1956
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 43
1909 - 1956
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 44
1878 - 1956
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 45
1875 - 1956
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 46
1890 - 1956
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 47
1891 - 1956
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 48
1867 - 1956
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 49
1877 - 1956
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 50
1874 - 1956
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 51
Among people born in Iraq, Mahmud Barzanji ranks 119 out of 338. Before him are Al-Mu'tadid (854), Lugalbanda (null), Kerbogha (1100), Al-Mustansir (1300), Ibn Sirin (653), and Muhammad al-Shaybani (750). After him are Utu-hengal (-2200), Al-Qa'im (1001), Ibn Sa'd (784), Eannatum (-2500), Ibn al-Nadim (1000), and Ibn Khallikan (1211).
854 - 902
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 113
HPI: 59.02
Rank: 114
1100 - 1102
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 115
1300 - 1261
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 116
653 - 729
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 117
750 - 805
HPI: 58.89
Rank: 118
1878 - 1956
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 119
2200 BC - 2200 BC
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 120
1001 - 1075
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 121
784 - 845
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 122
2500 BC - 2425 BC
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 123
1000 - 995
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 124
1211 - 1282
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 125
Among politicians born in Iraq, Mahmud Barzanji ranks 75. Before him are Sinsharishkun (-700), Al-Qahir (899), Al-Mu'tadid (854), Lugalbanda (null), Kerbogha (1100), and Al-Mustansir (1300). After him are Utu-hengal (-2200), Al-Qa'im (1001), Eannatum (-2500), Al-Muhtadi (825), Ammi-Saduqa (-1700), and Ninus (null).
700 BC - 612 BC
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 69
899 - 950
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 70
854 - 902
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 71
HPI: 59.02
Rank: 72
1100 - 1102
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 73
1300 - 1261
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 74
1878 - 1956
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 75
2200 BC - 2200 BC
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 76
1001 - 1075
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 77
2500 BC - 2425 BC
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 78
825 - 870
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 79
1700 BC - 1700 BC
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 80
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 81