1849 - 1923
Mohammad Yaqub Khan (Pashto/Dari: محمد يعقوب خان; 1849 – November 15, 1923) was Emir of Afghanistan from February 21 to October 12, 1879. He was a Pashtun and the son of the previous ruler, Sher Ali Khan. Mohammad Yaqub Khan was appointed as the governor of Herat province in 1863. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohammad Yaqub Khan has received more than 185,275 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Mohammad Yaqub Khan is the 8,298th most popular politician (up from 12,440th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 81st in 2019) and the 53rd most popular Afghan Politician.
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Among politicians, Mohammad Yaqub Khan ranks 8,298 out of 15,577. Before him are Rabah Bitat, Aripert II, Sunifred, Count of Barcelona, Võ Chí Công, Henry V, Count of Luxembourg, and Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie. After him are Louis X, Duke of Bavaria, Chungjeong of Goryeo, Radu I of Wallachia, Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve, Tiberius Julius Alexander, and Ordulf, Duke of Saxony.
1925 - 2000
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 8,292
680 - 712
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 8,293
805 - 849
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 8,294
1912 - 2011
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 8,295
1217 - 1281
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 8,296
1718 - 1804
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 8,297
1849 - 1923
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 8,298
1495 - 1545
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 8,299
1338 - 1352
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 8,300
1330 - 1383
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 8,301
1756 - 1794
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 8,302
100 - 60
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 8,303
1022 - 1072
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 8,304
Among people born in 1849, Mohammad Yaqub Khan ranks 49. Before him are Eugène Carrière, Herbert von Bismarck, William Osler, Emile Claus, Karl Brugmann, and Johan August Brinell. After him are Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, William Ernest Henley, Benjamin Godard, Fritz Mauthner, and Sergei Ivanovich Mosin. Among people deceased in 1923, Mohammad Yaqub Khan ranks 48. Before him are Hertha Ayrton, Bonar Law, Charles Dupuy, Alexandre Ribot, Charles de Freycinet, and Damat Ferid Pasha. After him are Théophile Delcassé, Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, Dora Pejačević, Katō Tomosaburō, Fritz Mauthner, and Sayed Darwish.
1849 - 1906
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 43
1849 - 1904
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 44
1849 - 1919
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 45
1849 - 1924
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 46
1849 - 1919
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 47
1849 - 1925
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 48
1849 - 1923
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 49
1849 - 1921
HPI: 53.76
Rank: 50
1849 - 1918
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 51
1849 - 1903
HPI: 53.12
Rank: 52
1849 - 1895
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 53
1849 - 1923
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 54
1849 - 1902
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 55
1854 - 1923
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 42
1858 - 1923
HPI: 55.02
Rank: 43
1851 - 1923
HPI: 54.81
Rank: 44
1842 - 1923
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 45
1828 - 1923
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 46
1853 - 1923
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 47
1849 - 1923
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 48
1852 - 1923
HPI: 54.06
Rank: 49
1884 - 1923
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 50
1885 - 1923
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 51
1861 - 1923
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 52
1849 - 1923
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 53
1892 - 1923
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 54
Among people born in Afghanistan, Mohammad Yaqub Khan ranks 71 out of 145. Before him are Saman Khuda (701), Eucratides I (-170), Jalal-ud-din Khalji (1220), Kujula Kadphises (20), Baysunghur (1397), and Ashraf Hotak (1700). After him are Ahmad Zahir (1946), Mirwais Hotak (1673), Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji (1101), Afghan Girl (1972), Abdul Ahad Mohmand (1959), and Zalmay Khalilzad (1951).
701 - Present
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 65
170 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 66
1220 - 1296
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 67
20 - 80
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 68
1397 - 1433
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 69
1700 - 1730
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 70
1849 - 1923
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 71
1946 - 1979
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 72
1673 - 1715
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 73
1101 - 1206
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 74
1972 - Present
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 75
1959 - Present
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 76
1951 - Present
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 77
Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Mohammad Yaqub Khan ranks 53. Before him are Abdul Ali Mazari (1946), Saman Khuda (701), Eucratides I (-170), Jalal-ud-din Khalji (1220), Kujula Kadphises (20), and Ashraf Hotak (1700). After him are Mirwais Hotak (1673), Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Heliocles I (-200), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), and Amrullah Saleh (1972).
1946 - 1995
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 47
701 - Present
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 48
170 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 49
1220 - 1296
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 50
20 - 80
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 51
1700 - 1730
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 52
1849 - 1923
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 53
1673 - 1715
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 54
1951 - Present
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 55
1816 - 1845
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 56
200 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 57
300 BC - 180 BC
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 58
1972 - Present
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 59