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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 5,859,684 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 87 in 2019). Pervez Musharraf is the 2,399th most popular politician (up from 3,415th in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from India (up from 112th in 2019) and the 26th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 97

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Pervez Musharrafs by language

Over the past year Pervez Musharraf has had the most page views in the with 640,722 views, followed by Persian (25,792), and Arabic (25,053). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are (69,300.00%), Turkmen (235.18%), and Kurdish (Sorani) (216.33%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pervez Musharraf ranks 2,399 out of 19,576. Before him are Alp-Tegin, Alfonso the Battler, Sergei Witte, Seleucus IV Philopator, Bonne of Luxembourg, and Haakon the Good. After him are George Vella, Abdullah II of Jordan, Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, Ellac, Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, and Emperor Xuan of Han.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Pervez Musharraf ranks 52. Before him are Mariss Jansons, Helmut Marko, Michael Mann, Klaus von Klitzing, Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, and Billie Jean King. After him are Andreas Baader, Terrence Malick, Peter Zumthor, Mohammed Badie, Betty Williams, and Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. Among people deceased in 2023, Pervez Musharraf ranks 48. Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto, Paul Berg, Wolfgang Schäuble, Martin Amis, Karel Schwarzenberg, and Rosalynn Carter. After him are Alan Arkin, Federico Bahamontes, Tom Wilkinson, Otar Iosseliani, David McCallum, and Miroslav Blažević.

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In India

Among people born in India, Pervez Musharraf ranks 86 out of 1,861. Before him are Sher Shah Suri (1486), Samudragupta (335), Ramana Maharshi (1879), Rajendra Prasad (1884), Lawrence Durrell (1912), and Nathuram Godse (1910). After him are Bindusara (-320), Pete Best (1941), Ram Mohan Roy (1772), Varāhamihira (505), Patanjali (-200), and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Pervez Musharraf ranks 26. Before him are Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Rajiv Gandhi (1944), Maharana Pratap (1540), Sher Shah Suri (1486), Samudragupta (335), and Rajendra Prasad (1884). After him are Bindusara (-320), Ram Nath Kovind (1945), Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), Mohammed Nadir Shah (1883), Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I (1671), and Razia Sultana (1205).

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