190 BC - 130 BC
Menander I Soter (Ancient Greek: Μένανδρος Σωτήρ, romanized: Ménandros Sōtḗr, lit. 'Menander the Saviour'; Pali: Milinda; sometimes called Menander the Great) was a Greco-Bactrian and later Indo-Greek King (reigned c. 165/155 –130 BC) who administered a large territory in the Northwestern regions of the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia. Menander is noted for having become a patron and convert to Greco-Buddhism and he is widely regarded as the greatest of the Indo-Greek kings.Menander might have initially been a king of Bactria. After conquering the Punjab, as far as Taxila, he established an empire which stretched from the Kabul River in the west to the Indus River in the east, and from the Swat River valley in the north to Arachosia (the Helmand Province). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Menander I has received more than 621,983 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Menander I is the 3,664th most popular politician (up from 4,454th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 35th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Afghan Politician.
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Among politicians, Menander I ranks 3,664 out of 15,577. Before him are Şah Sultan, Musa Çelebi, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Ziusudra, Ghazi of Iraq, and Emil Jellinek. After him are Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, Bayinnaung, James Brooke, Agnes of France, Byzantine Empress, Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine, and Al-Wathiq.
1544 - 1577
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 3,658
1388 - 1413
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 3,659
42 BC - 23 BC
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 3,660
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 3,661
1912 - 1939
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 3,662
1853 - 1918
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 3,663
190 BC - 130 BC
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 3,664
1658 - 1716
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 3,665
1516 - 1581
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 3,666
1803 - 1868
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 3,667
1171 - 1220
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 3,668
1609 - 1670
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 3,669
812 - 847
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 3,670
Among people born in 190 BC, Menander I ranks 2. Before him is Hipparchus. After him are Lucius Mummius Achaicus, Seleucus of Seleucia, Servius Sulpicius Galba, Alexander II Zabinas, Julia, Phraates I, Orodes I of Parthia, and Hypsicles. Among people deceased in 130 BC, Menander I ranks 1. After him are Pacuvius, Servius Sulpicius Galba, Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, and Ptolemaeus of Commagene.
190 BC - 120 BC
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 1
190 BC - 130 BC
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 2
190 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 3
190 BC - 150 BC
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 4
190 BC - 130 BC
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 5
190 BC - 123 BC
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 6
190 BC - 69 BC
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 7
190 BC - 171 BC
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 8
190 BC - 90 BC
HPI: 51.61
Rank: 9
190 BC - 120 BC
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 10
190 BC - 130 BC
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 1
220 BC - 130 BC
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 2
190 BC - 130 BC
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 3
189 BC - 130 BC
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 4
250 BC - 130 BC
HPI: 46.46
Rank: 5
Among people born in Afghanistan, Menander I ranks 34 out of 145. Before him are Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (1450), Ashraf Ghani (1949), Nur Jahan (1577), Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438), Moinuddin Chishti (1142), and Khaled Hosseini (1965). After him are Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961), Heracles of Macedon (-327), Abu Maʿshar (787), Khalil Sultan (1384), Inayatullah Khan (1888), and Muhammad of Ghor (1160).
1450 - 1535
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 28
1949 - Present
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 29
1577 - 1645
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 30
1438 - 1506
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 31
1142 - 1236
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 32
1965 - Present
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 33
190 BC - 130 BC
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 34
1961 - Present
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 35
327 BC - 309 BC
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 36
787 - 886
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 37
1384 - 1411
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 38
1888 - 1946
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 39
1160 - 1206
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 40
Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Menander I ranks 26. Before him are Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), Mohammad Najibullah (1947), Ashraf Ghani (1949), Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438), and Moinuddin Chishti (1142). After him are Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961), Heracles of Macedon (-327), Khalil Sultan (1384), Inayatullah Khan (1888), Muhammad of Ghor (1160), and Mas'ud I of Ghazni (998).
1844 - 1901
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 20
1925 - 2019
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 21
1947 - 1996
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 22
1949 - Present
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 23
1438 - 1506
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 24
1142 - 1236
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 25
190 BC - 130 BC
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 26
1961 - Present
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 27
327 BC - 309 BC
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 28
1384 - 1411
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 29
1888 - 1946
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 30
1160 - 1206
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 31
998 - 1041
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 32