POLITICIAN

Nizar Rayan

1959 - 2009

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Nizar Rayan (Arabic: نزار ريان, Nɩzár Rɑȋán, also transliterated Rayyan; 6 March 1959 – 1 January 2009) was a high-ranking Hamas leader who served as a liaison between the Palestinian organization's political leadership and its military wing. Also a professor of Islamic law, he became a top Islamic cleric within Hamas after the death of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in 2004. Rayan was a strong promoter between 1994 and 2004 of suicide bombings on Israel, and his son killed himself on one such mission. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nizar Rayan has received more than 90,423 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Nizar Rayan is the 13,402nd most popular politician (up from 15,040th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 90k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nizar Rayan ranks 13,402 out of 19,576. Before him are King Jian of Zhou, Ezana of Axum, Francesco Cornaro, Lajos Dinnyés, René Felber, and Josef Munzinger. After him are Mohamed al-Menfi, Simeon Bavier, Felix Kulov, Jacob Hübner, Kamal Hassan Ali, and Otto Schily.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Nizar Rayan ranks 199. Before him are Jaime Rodríguez, Susanna Hoffs, Steven Knight, Jorginho Putinatti, Fernando Chalana, and Stephen Wolfram. After him are Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Nicole Brown Simpson, Alexander Lebedev, Anthony LaPaglia, and Aleksandar Petrović. Among people deceased in 2009, Nizar Rayan ranks 210. Before him are Tullio Pinelli, Juan Carlos Muñoz, Clodovil Hernandes, Michel Leblond, Ron Silver, and Elisabeth Söderström. After him are Alexis Argüello, Willy Ronis, Jack Cardiff, Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, Reinhard Mohn, and Lis Hartel.

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