POLITICIAN

Mehdi Bazargan

1907 - 1995

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Mehdi Bazargan (Persian: مهدی بازرگان; 1 September 1907 – 20 January 1995) was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government. One of the leading figures of Iranian Revolution of 1979, he was appointed prime minister in February 1979 by Ayatollah Khomeini, making him Iran's first prime minister after the revolution. He resigned his position in November of the same year, in protest at the takeover of the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mehdi Bazargan has received more than 560,397 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Mehdi Bazargan is the 5,058th most popular politician (up from 6,130th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Iran (up from 182nd in 2019) and the 96th most popular Iranian Politician.

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  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mehdi Bazargan ranks 5,058 out of 19,576. Before him are García II of Galicia, Fa Ngum, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Omar Suleiman, Bernhardus Varenius, and António Lobo Antunes. After him are Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, Uija of Baekje, Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry, Caroline Kennedy, Prince Gong, and Nicolae Timofti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Mehdi Bazargan ranks 69. Before him are Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Chūya Nakahara, Lee Miller, Giovanni Ferrari, Emilie Schindler, and Horia Sima. After him are Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Cesar Romero, Pierre Mendès France, Mahadevi Varma, Sisavang Vatthana, and Trường Chinh. Among people deceased in 1995, Mehdi Bazargan ranks 59. Before him are Don Cherry, César Rodríguez Álvarez, Georges J. F. Köhler, Rose Kennedy, Bob Ross, and Mária Telkes. After him are Lola Flores, Günter Guillaume, Jeremy Brett, Georges Canguilhem, Ko Takamoro, and Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mehdi Bazargan ranks 173 out of 631. Before him are Vologases III of Parthia (100), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1942), Jafar Panahi (1960), Harpagus (-700), and Tiridates I of Armenia (null). After him are Shaul Mofaz (1948), 'Adud al-Dawla (936), Al-Baydawi (1201), Arsaces II of Parthia (-300), Sinatruces of Parthia (-157), and Shaykh Tusi (995).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Mehdi Bazargan ranks 96. Before him are Ashraf Pahlavi (1919), Abbas Mirza (1789), Phraates V (-100), Vologases III of Parthia (100), Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1942), and Tiridates I of Armenia (null). After him are Shaul Mofaz (1948), 'Adud al-Dawla (936), Arsaces II of Parthia (-300), Sinatruces of Parthia (-157), Pacorus I (-63), and Arsames (-550).

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