1956 - Today
Najmudin Vahid Faraj Ahmed (Kurdish: نەجمەدین وەحید فەرەج ئەحمەد, July 7, 1956), better known as Mullah Krekar (Kurdish: مهلا کرێکار), is an Iraqi Kurdish Sunni Islamic scholar and militant who was the founder and former leader of Islamist militant group Ansar al-Islam. He is currently serving a prison sentence in Italy, after having been extradited from Norway in 2020. He came to Norway as a refugee from Iraqi Kurdistan in 1991. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mullah Krekar has received more than 238,796 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Mullah Krekar is the 2,447th most popular religious figure, the 299th most popular biography from Iraq and the 32nd most popular Iraqi Religious Figure.
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Among religious figures, Mullah Krekar ranks 2,447 out of 2,238. Before him are Anton Josef Gruscha, Carlo Acutis, Kazimierz Nycz, Stanisław Wielgus, William Wakefield Baum, and Symeon of Durham. After him are José María Caro Rodríguez, Stanisław Nagy, Jean-Claude Turcotte, José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Anthony Peter Khoraish, and Mario Francesco Pompedda.
1820 - 1911
HPI: 45.59
Rank: 2,441
1991 - 2006
HPI: 45.58
Rank: 2,442
1950 - Present
HPI: 45.57
Rank: 2,443
1939 - Present
HPI: 45.56
Rank: 2,444
1926 - 2015
HPI: 45.53
Rank: 2,445
1060 - 1130
HPI: 45.51
Rank: 2,446
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.51
Rank: 2,447
1866 - 1958
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 2,448
1921 - 2013
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 2,449
1936 - 2015
HPI: 45.46
Rank: 2,450
1926 - 2019
HPI: 45.46
Rank: 2,451
1907 - 1994
HPI: 45.45
Rank: 2,452
1929 - 2006
HPI: 45.45
Rank: 2,453
Among people born in 1956, Mullah Krekar ranks 301. Before him are Bruno Giordano, Ilona Slupianek, Gregorio Manzano, Ivan Nielsen, Héctor Rebaque, and Richard Tyson. After him are Ilie Balaci, Sergei Avdeyev, Steve Barron, Koffi Olomide, Roberto Regazzi, and Dariusz Wolski.
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.67
Rank: 295
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.65
Rank: 296
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.64
Rank: 297
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 298
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.58
Rank: 299
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.52
Rank: 300
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.51
Rank: 301
1956 - 2018
HPI: 45.46
Rank: 302
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 303
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 304
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.41
Rank: 305
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.37
Rank: 306
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.33
Rank: 307
Among people born in Iraq, Mullah Krekar ranks 299 out of 338. Before him are Hussein Saeed (1958), Ali Larijani (1957), Ashur-rim-nisheshu (-1490), Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (1948), Abdul Aziz al-Hakim (1952), and Shlomo Hillel (1923). After him are Paulos Faraj Rahho (1942), Jalal Dabagh (1939), Ramzi Yousef (1968), Ahmed Radhi (1964), Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi (1954), and Jafar Salmasi (1918).
1958 - Present
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 293
1957 - Present
HPI: 46.85
Rank: 294
1490 BC - 1400 BC
HPI: 46.40
Rank: 295
1948 - 2018
HPI: 46.38
Rank: 296
1952 - 2009
HPI: 46.11
Rank: 297
1923 - 2021
HPI: 45.82
Rank: 298
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.51
Rank: 299
1942 - 2008
HPI: 45.30
Rank: 300
1939 - Present
HPI: 45.04
Rank: 301
1968 - Present
HPI: 44.49
Rank: 302
1964 - 2020
HPI: 44.12
Rank: 303
1954 - Present
HPI: 43.61
Rank: 304
1918 - 2000
HPI: 43.43
Rank: 305
Among religious figures born in Iraq, Mullah Krekar ranks 32. Before him are Yitzhak Kaduri (1898), Emmanuel III Delly (1927), Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni (1879), Dinkha IV (1935), Louis Raphaël I Sako (1948), and Ignatius Zakka I Iwas (1931). After him are Paulos Faraj Rahho (1942), Sajida al-Rishawi (1970), and Bashar Warda (1969).
1898 - 2006
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 26
1927 - 2014
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 27
1879 - 1968
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 28
1935 - 2015
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 29
1948 - Present
HPI: 48.52
Rank: 30
1931 - 2014
HPI: 48.13
Rank: 31
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.51
Rank: 32
1942 - 2008
HPI: 45.30
Rank: 33
1970 - 2015
HPI: 42.21
Rank: 34
1969 - Present
HPI: 37.34
Rank: 35