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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

1919 - 1980

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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Persian: محمدرضا پهلوی [mohæmˈmæd reˈzɒː pæhlæˈviː] ; 26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980), commonly referred to in the Western world as Mohammad Reza Shah (محمدرضا شاه), or just simply The Shah, was the last monarch of Iran. He began ruling the Imperial State of Iran after succeeding his father Reza Shah in 1941 and remained in power until he was overthrown by the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which abolished the country's monarchy and established the Islamic Republic of Iran. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi has received more than 11,484,710 page views. His biography is available in 92 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is the 195th most popular politician (down from 162nd in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Iran (up from 8th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Iranian Politician.

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is most famous for being the last shah of Iran. He was overthrown in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution and replaced by Ayatollah Khomeini.

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  • 92

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  • 7.92

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  • 4.46

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ranks 195 out of 15,577Before him are Louis the Pious, Caracalla, Salvador Allende, Klemens von Metternich, Titus, and Edward IV of England. After him are Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, Al Gore, Louis Philippe I, Henry VII of England, Charles X of France, and Cleisthenes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ranks 1After him are Mikhail Kalashnikov, Eva Perón, J. D. Salinger, Edmund Hillary, Doris Lessing, Desmond Doss, Primo Levi, Zhao Ziyang, Giulio Andreotti, Margot Fonteyn, and Lino Ventura. Among people deceased in 1980, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ranks 7Before him are Jean-Paul Sartre, Josip Broz Tito, Alfred Hitchcock, Karl Dönitz, Jean Piaget, and John Lennon. After him are Erich Fromm, Roland Barthes, Steve McQueen, Bon Scott, Jesse Owens, and Colonel Sanders.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ranks 7 out of 528Before him are Zoroaster (-2000), Omar Khayyam (1048), Al-Ghazali (1058), Cyrus the Great (-600), Xerxes I (-519), and Darius III (-380). After him are Ruhollah Khomeini (1902), Harun al-Rashid (766), Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865), Ismail I (1487), Jabir ibn Hayyan (721), and Esther (-600).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ranks 4Before him are Cyrus the Great (-600), Xerxes I (-519), and Darius III (-380). After him are Harun al-Rashid (766), Cambyses II (-550), Malik-Shah I (1055), Ali Khamenei (1939), Nader Shah (1688), Tahmasp I (1514), Nizam al-Mulk (1018), and Khosrow I (501).