1942 - 2011
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (c. 1942 – 20 October 2011), commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi, was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He governed Libya as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then as the "Brotherly Leader" of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muammar Gaddafi has received more than 12,061,315 page views. His biography is available in 130 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 128 in 2019). Muammar Gaddafi is the 103rd most popular politician (up from 110th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Libya and the most popular Libyan Politician.
Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya for more than 40 years. He was overthrown and killed in 2011 during the Libyan Civil War.
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Among politicians, Muammar Gaddafi ranks 103 out of 15,710. Before him are Leonid Brezhnev, Murad IV, Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Ivar the Boneless, Cleopatra, and Herod the Great. After him are Hirohito, Philip IV of France, Xerxes I, Claudius, George Washington, and Isabella I of Castile.
1906 - 1982
HPI: 85.53
Rank: 97
1612 - 1640
HPI: 85.48
Rank: 98
1859 - 1941
HPI: 85.48
Rank: 99
900 - 873
HPI: 85.46
Rank: 100
69 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 85.46
Rank: 101
73 BC - 3 BC
HPI: 85.44
Rank: 102
1942 - 2011
HPI: 85.44
Rank: 103
1901 - 1989
HPI: 85.39
Rank: 104
1268 - 1314
HPI: 85.36
Rank: 105
519 BC - 475 BC
HPI: 85.31
Rank: 106
10 BC - 54
HPI: 85.30
Rank: 107
1732 - 1799
HPI: 85.21
Rank: 108
1451 - 1504
HPI: 85.19
Rank: 109
Among people born in 1942, Muammar Gaddafi ranks 4. Before him are Muhammad Ali, Stephen Hawking, and Martin Scorsese. After him are Amitabh Bachchan, Paul McCartney, Joe Biden, Eusébio, Jimi Hendrix, Ratko Mladić, Hu Jintao, and Harrison Ford. Among people deceased in 2011, Muammar Gaddafi ranks 2. Before him is Steve Jobs. After him are Kim Jong-il, Elizabeth Taylor, Václav Havel, Osama bin Laden, Peter Falk, Otto von Habsburg, Cesária Évora, Sathya Sai Baba, Wangari Maathai, and Joe Frazier.
1942 - 2016
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 1
1942 - 2018
HPI: 89.32
Rank: 2
1942 - Present
HPI: 86.49
Rank: 3
1942 - 2011
HPI: 85.44
Rank: 4
1942 - Present
HPI: 84.82
Rank: 5
1942 - Present
HPI: 82.79
Rank: 6
1942 - Present
HPI: 82.42
Rank: 7
1942 - 2014
HPI: 82.00
Rank: 8
1942 - 1970
HPI: 81.89
Rank: 9
1942 - Present
HPI: 81.60
Rank: 10
1942 - Present
HPI: 81.41
Rank: 11
1942 - Present
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 12
1955 - 2011
HPI: 88.27
Rank: 1
1942 - 2011
HPI: 85.44
Rank: 2
1941 - 2011
HPI: 85.08
Rank: 3
1932 - 2011
HPI: 82.50
Rank: 4
1936 - 2011
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 5
1957 - 2011
HPI: 81.17
Rank: 6
1927 - 2011
HPI: 78.93
Rank: 7
1912 - 2011
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 8
1941 - 2011
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 9
1926 - 2011
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 10
1940 - 2011
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 11
1944 - 2011
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 12
Among people born in Libya, Muammar Gaddafi ranks 2 out of 59. Before him are Eratosthenes (-276). After him are Septimius Severus (145), Arius (256), Mark the Evangelist (10), Aristippus (-434), Simon of Cyrene (-100), Callimachus (-310), Idris of Libya (1889), Omar Mukhtar (1858), Khalifa Haftar (1943), and Pope Victor I (100).
276 BC - 194 BC
HPI: 86.12
Rank: 1
1942 - 2011
HPI: 85.44
Rank: 2
145 - 211
HPI: 83.38
Rank: 3
256 - 336
HPI: 82.49
Rank: 4
10 - 68
HPI: 82.38
Rank: 5
434 BC - 355 BC
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 6
100 BC - 100
HPI: 77.43
Rank: 7
310 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 8
1889 - 1983
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 9
1858 - 1931
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 10
1943 - Present
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 11
100 - 199
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 12
Among politicians born in Libya, Muammar Gaddafi ranks 1. After him are Septimius Severus (145), Simon of Cyrene (-100), Idris of Libya (1889), Fayez al-Sarraj (1960), Abdurrahim El-Keib (1950), Pedubast I (-900), Ptolemy Apion (-101), Mahmoud Jibril (1952), Gaius Fulvius Plautianus (150), Baghdadi Mahmudi (1945), and Mustafa Abdul Jalil (1952).
1942 - 2011
HPI: 85.44
Rank: 1
145 - 211
HPI: 83.38
Rank: 2
100 BC - 100
HPI: 77.43
Rank: 3
1889 - 1983
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 4
1960 - Present
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 5
1950 - 2020
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 6
900 BC - 793 BC
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 7
101 BC - 96 BC
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 8
1952 - Present
HPI: 63.83
Rank: 9
150 - 205
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 10
1945 - Present
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 11
1952 - Present
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 12