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Mir-Hossein Mousavi

1942 - Today

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Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (Persian: میرحسین موسوی خامنه, romanized: Mīr-Hoseyn Mūsavī Khāmené, pronounced [miːɾhoˈsejne muːsæˈviːje xɑːmeˈne]; born 2 March 1942) is an Iranian socialist politician, artist, architect and opposition figure who served as the 45th and last Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He was a reformist candidate for the 2009 presidential election and eventually the leader of the opposition in the post-election unrest. Mousavi served as the president of the Iranian Academy of Arts until 2009, when conservative authorities removed him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mir-Hossein Mousavi has received more than 693,538 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Mir-Hossein Mousavi is the 4,948th most popular politician (up from 5,791st in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Iran (up from 174th in 2019) and the 94th most popular Iranian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mir-Hossein Mousavi ranks 4,948 out of 19,576. Before him are Rudolf of Rheinfelden, Takeda Katsuyori, Seleucus VI Epiphanes, Lucius Antonius Saturninus, William I, Duke of Aquitaine, and Juan, Count of Montizón. After him are Jacopo Tiepolo, Gung Ye, Duqaq, Ammi-Saduqa, William I, Count of Hainaut, and John I of Sweden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Mir-Hossein Mousavi ranks 118. Before him are Lee Kun-hee, Terry Jones, Britt Ekland, Pedro Rocha, Hannu Mikkola, and Vladimir Bukovsky. After him are Karen Grassle, Anita Pallenberg, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, António Lobo Antunes, Felice Gimondi, and Sixto Rodriguez.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mir-Hossein Mousavi ranks 169 out of 631. Before him are Ashraf Pahlavi (1919), Abbas Mirza (1789), Phraates V (-100), Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897), Vologases III of Parthia (100), and Sadegh Hedayat (1903). After him are Jafar Panahi (1960), Harpagus (-700), Tiridates I of Armenia (null), Mehdi Bazargan (1907), Shaul Mofaz (1948), and 'Adud al-Dawla (936).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Mir-Hossein Mousavi ranks 94. Before him are Shapour Bakhtiar (1914), Vologases VI (200), Ashraf Pahlavi (1919), Abbas Mirza (1789), Phraates V (-100), and Vologases III of Parthia (100). After him are Tiridates I of Armenia (null), Mehdi Bazargan (1907), Shaul Mofaz (1948), 'Adud al-Dawla (936), Arsaces II of Parthia (-300), and Sinatruces of Parthia (-157).

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