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Pervez Musharraf

1943 - 2023

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Pervez Musharraf (11 August 1943 – 5 February 2023) was a Pakistani military officer and politician who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008. He also served as the 10th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs from 1998 to 2001 and the 7th Chief of Army Staff from 1998 to 2007. Born in Delhi, Musharraf was raised in Karachi and Istanbul. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pervez Musharraf has received more than 5,920,497 page views. His biography is available in 87 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Pervez Musharraf is the 3,425th most popular politician (up from 3,766th in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from India and the 33rd most popular Indian Politician.

Pervez Musharraf is most famous for being the president of Pakistan from 1999 to 2008. He is also known for suspending Pakistan's constitution and imposing martial law in 2007.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pervez Musharraf ranks 3,425 out of 15,577Before him are Paul Deschanel, Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Henri de Baillet-Latour, Isaac Herzog, Adad-nirari II, and Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona. After him are Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Wu Zixu, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, Albert III, Duke of Saxony, and Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Pervez Musharraf ranks 69Before him are Jerry Bruckheimer, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, John Denver, Eduard Limonov, Esma Redžepova, and Vint Cerf. After him are Bernard Tapie, Arthur Ashe, Jean-Louis Tauran, Ulay, Mustafa Dzhemilev, and George Benson. Among people deceased in 2023, Pervez Musharraf ranks 46Before him are Rosalynn Carter, Harry Markowitz, Burt Young, Alain Touraine, Lucile Randon, and William Friedkin. After him are Ryuichi Sakamoto, John B. Goodenough, Antonio Negri, David McCallum, Ivan Silayev, and Astrud Gilberto.

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In India

Among people born in India, Pervez Musharraf ranks 113 out of 1,493Before him are Basava (1134), Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838), Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Ahmed Deedat (1918), and Dadabhai Naoroji (1825). After him are Vinoba Bhave (1895), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815), Namdev (1270), Jyotirao Phule (1827), James Brooke (1803), and Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Pervez Musharraf ranks 33Before him are Vishvamitra (-2000), Maharana Pratap (1540), Razia Sultana (1205), Bindusara (-320), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924), and Dadabhai Naoroji (1825). After him are James Brooke (1803), Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), Mamnoon Hussain (1940), Pranab Mukherjee (1935), and Chandra Shekhar Azad (1906).

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