1929 - 2022
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ( ; Urdu: محمد رفیق تارڑ; 2 November 1929 – 7 March 2022) was a Pakistani politician and jurist who served as the ninth president of Pakistan from January 1998 until his resignation in June 2001, and prior to that as a senator from Punjab in 1997. Before entering politics, Tarar served as senior justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1991 to 1994 and as the 28th Chief Justice of Lahore High Court from 1989 to 1991.Tarar was born in Mandi Bahauddin, and graduated with LLB from University of the Punjab in 1951, before starting practice as a lawyer in Lahore High Court the following year. In 1966, he pursued a career as a jurist. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad Rafiq Tarar has received more than 600,176 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Muhammad Rafiq Tarar is the 11,812th most popular politician (up from 11,900th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 60th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Pakistani Politician.
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Among politicians, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ranks 11,812 out of 15,577. Before him are Spyros Markezinis, Martín Vizcarra, Hesychius of Miletus, Alejandro Maldonado, Mattan I, and Antonio Nariño. After him are Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, José Mário Vaz, Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg, Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, José Joaquín de Olmedo, and Antoni Martí.
1909 - 2000
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 11,806
1963 - Present
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 11,807
505 - 600
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 11,808
1936 - Present
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 11,809
864 BC - 900 BC
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 11,810
1765 - 1823
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 11,811
1929 - 2022
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 11,812
1583 - 1648
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 11,813
1957 - Present
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 11,814
1119 - 1158
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 11,815
1667 - 1718
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 11,816
1780 - 1847
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 11,817
1963 - 2023
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 11,818
Among people born in 1929, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ranks 263. Before him are Nadja Tiller, Claude Goretta, Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Paavo Berglund, Bob Hawke, and John Turner. After him are József Tóth, Barry Harris, Carlo Ubbiali, John Osborne, Vija Artmane, and Karin Lindberg. Among people deceased in 2022, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ranks 229. Before him are Pharoah Sanders, Mitchell Ryan, Agostino Cacciavillan, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Philippe Streiff, and Alice von Hildebrand. After him are Ernest Shonekan, Hans-Jürgen Dörner, Anatoly Filipchenko, Ole Ellefsæter, Benjamin Kogo, and Susana Dosamantes.
1929 - 2023
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 257
1929 - 2019
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 258
1929 - 2019
HPI: 49.82
Rank: 259
1929 - 2012
HPI: 49.82
Rank: 260
1929 - 2019
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 261
1929 - 2020
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 262
1929 - 2022
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 263
1929 - 2017
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 264
1929 - 2021
HPI: 49.60
Rank: 265
1929 - 2020
HPI: 49.59
Rank: 266
1929 - 1994
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 267
1929 - 2008
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 268
1929 - 2020
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 269
1940 - 2022
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 223
1928 - 2022
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 224
1926 - 2022
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 225
1933 - 2022
HPI: 49.82
Rank: 226
1955 - 2022
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 227
1923 - 2022
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 228
1929 - 2022
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 229
1936 - 2022
HPI: 49.66
Rank: 230
1951 - 2022
HPI: 49.64
Rank: 231
1928 - 2022
HPI: 49.60
Rank: 232
1939 - 2022
HPI: 49.47
Rank: 233
1944 - 2022
HPI: 49.44
Rank: 234
1948 - 2022
HPI: 49.42
Rank: 235
Among people born in Pakistan, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ranks 56 out of 180. Before him are Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580), Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Sunil Dutt (1929), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Hamida Banu Begum (1527), and Malala Yousafzai (1997). After him are Tariq Ali (1943), Shehbaz Sharif (1951), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948), Yash Chopra (1932), Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), and Farooq Leghari (1940).
1580 - 1649
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 50
1915 - 2006
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 51
1929 - 2005
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 52
1911 - 1984
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 53
1527 - 1604
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 54
1997 - Present
HPI: 49.71
Rank: 55
1929 - 2022
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 56
1943 - Present
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 57
1951 - Present
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 58
1948 - 1997
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 59
1932 - 2012
HPI: 48.29
Rank: 60
1906 - 1972
HPI: 47.97
Rank: 61
1940 - 2010
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 62
Among politicians born in Pakistan, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ranks 24. Before him are Taxiles (-400), Yahya Khan (1914), I. K. Gujral (1919), Nawaz Sharif (1949), Raja Dahir (663), and Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915). After him are Shehbaz Sharif (1951), Farooq Leghari (1940), L. K. Advani (1927), Bahlul Lodi (1406), Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), and Duleep Singh (1838).
400 BC - 360 BC
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 18
1914 - 1980
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 19
1919 - 2012
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 20
1949 - Present
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 21
663 - 712
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 22
1915 - 2006
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 23
1929 - 2022
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 24
1951 - Present
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 25
1940 - 2010
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 26
1927 - Present
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 27
1406 - 1489
HPI: 47.63
Rank: 28
1904 - 1982
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 29
1838 - 1893
HPI: 46.84
Rank: 30