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Omar al-Bashir

1944 - Today

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Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (born 1 January 1944) is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as Sudan's head of state under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état. He was subsequently incarcerated, tried and convicted on multiple corruption charges. He came to power in 1989 when, as a brigadier general in the Sudanese Army, he led a group of officers in a military coup that ousted the democratically elected government of prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi after it began negotiations with rebels in the south; he subsequently replaced President Ahmed al-Mirghani as head of state. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Omar al-Bashir has received more than 3,170,368 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Omar al-Bashir is the 1,430th most popular politician (down from 1,351st in 2019), the most popular biography from Sudan and the most popular Sudanese Politician.

Omar al-Bashir is the president of Sudan and has been since 1989. He is most famous for being the president of Sudan and for being wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

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  • 77

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Omar al-Bashir ranks 1,430 out of 15,577. Before him are Dongmyeong of Goguryeo, Getúlio Vargas, Pauline Bonaparte, Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Manuel Azaña, and Sebastián Piñera. After him are Viktor Zubkov, Rutherford B. Hayes, Lucius Caesar, Václav Klaus, Christian VI of Denmark, and Chilperic I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Omar al-Bashir ranks 22. Before him are Jimmy Page, Carlos Alberto Torres, Sepp Maier, Harold Ramis, Jacqueline Bisset, and Joe Frazier. After him are Diana Ross, Danny Trejo, Ronnie Peterson, Kary Mullis, Ulrich Beck, and Dietrich Mateschitz.

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In Sudan

Among people born in Sudan, Omar al-Bashir ranks 1 out of 29. After him are Muhammad Ahmad (1844), Luqman (-1100), Josephine Bakhita (1868), Piye (-800), Gaafar Nimeiry (1930), Abdalla Hamdok (1956), John Garang (1945), Hassan Al-Turabi (1932), Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (1846), Ibrahim Abboud (1900), and Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (1960).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sudan

Among politicians born in Sudan, Omar al-Bashir ranks 1. After him are Piye (-800), Gaafar Nimeiry (1930), Abdalla Hamdok (1956), John Garang (1945), Hassan Al-Turabi (1932), Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (1846), Ibrahim Abboud (1900), Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (1960), Ismail al-Azhari (1901), Ahmed al-Mirghani (1941), and Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab (1934).

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