1525 - 1583
Nurbanu Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: نور بانو سلطان; "Queen of light", c. 1525/1527 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the legal wife of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–1574), as well as Valide Sultan (Sultana mother) as the mother of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574–1583). She was one of the most prominent figures during the time of the Sultanate of Women. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nurbanu Sultan has received more than 1,363,887 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Nurbanu Sultan is the 8th most popular companion (up from 21st in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Greece (up from 38th in 2019) and the most popular Greek Companion.
Nurbanu Sultan was the wife of Selim II, and the mother of Murad III. She is most famous for her patronage of the arts, and for being the first woman to be portrayed on a Turkish coin.
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Among companions, Nurbanu Sultan ranks 8 out of 673. Before her are Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Anne Boleyn, Fatimah, Catherine de' Medici, Aisha, and Mihrimah Sultan. After her are Eva Braun, Helena, Khadija bint Khuwaylid, Empress Joséphine, Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, and Madame de Pompadour.
1837 - 1898
HPI: 83.26
Rank: 2
1501 - 1536
HPI: 81.86
Rank: 3
604 - 632
HPI: 79.79
Rank: 4
1519 - 1589
HPI: 79.76
Rank: 5
605 - 678
HPI: 79.63
Rank: 6
1522 - 1578
HPI: 79.52
Rank: 7
1525 - 1583
HPI: 79.47
Rank: 8
1912 - 1945
HPI: 79.02
Rank: 9
250 - 330
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 10
556 - 619
HPI: 78.45
Rank: 11
1763 - 1814
HPI: 78.09
Rank: 12
1791 - 1847
HPI: 77.99
Rank: 13
1721 - 1764
HPI: 77.16
Rank: 14
Among people born in 1525, Nurbanu Sultan ranks 2. Before her is Pieter Bruegel the Elder. After her are Şehzade Bayezid, Carolus Clusius, John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Hans Staden, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Zhang Juzheng, Germain Pilon, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Patriarch Job of Moscow, and Caspar Peucer. Among people deceased in 1583, Nurbanu Sultan ranks 1. After her are Catherine Jagiellon, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, Oichi, Shibata Katsuie, Surdas, Ivan Fyodorov, Louis VI, Elector Palatine, Antoinette de Bourbon, Oda Nobutaka, and Andrey Kurbsky.
1525 - 1569
HPI: 81.00
Rank: 1
1525 - 1583
HPI: 79.47
Rank: 2
1525 - 1561
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 3
1525 - 1609
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 4
1525 - 1598
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 5
1525 - 1579
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 6
1525 - 1578
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 7
1525 - 1582
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 8
1525 - 1590
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 9
1525 - 1576
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 10
1525 - 1607
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 11
1525 - 1602
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 12
1525 - 1583
HPI: 79.47
Rank: 1
1526 - 1583
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 2
1509 - 1583
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 3
1540 - 1583
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 4
1547 - 1583
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 5
1522 - 1583
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 6
1478 - 1583
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 7
1510 - 1583
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 8
1539 - 1583
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 9
1494 - 1583
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 10
1558 - 1583
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 11
1528 - 1583
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 12
Among people born in Greece, Nurbanu Sultan ranks 27 out of 936. Before her are Sappho (-630), Plutarch (46), El Greco (1541), Thucydides (-460), Phidias (-490), and Bayezid II (1447). After her are Xenophon (-430), Demosthenes (-384), Themistocles (-524), Leonidas I (-540), Hayreddin Barbarossa (1478), and Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha (1493).
630 BC - 570 BC
HPI: 80.67
Rank: 21
46 - 127
HPI: 80.42
Rank: 22
1541 - 1614
HPI: 80.36
Rank: 23
460 BC - 397 BC
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 24
490 BC - 430 BC
HPI: 79.84
Rank: 25
1447 - 1512
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 26
1525 - 1583
HPI: 79.47
Rank: 27
430 BC - 354 BC
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 28
384 BC - 322 BC
HPI: 78.44
Rank: 29
524 BC - 459 BC
HPI: 78.39
Rank: 30
540 BC - 480 BC
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 31
1478 - 1546
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 32
1493 - 1536
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 33
Among companions born in Greece, Nurbanu Sultan ranks 1. After her are Olympias (-375), Gorgo, Queen of Sparta (-506), Helen of Greece and Denmark (1896), Alexandra of Yugoslavia (1921), Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta (1904), Aspasia Manos (1896), and Eusebia (400).
1525 - 1583
HPI: 79.47
Rank: 1
375 BC - 316 BC
HPI: 73.81
Rank: 2
506 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 3
1896 - 1982
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 4
1921 - 1993
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 5
1904 - 1974
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 6
1896 - 1972
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 7
400 - 360
HPI: 53.96
Rank: 8