MILITARY PERSONNEL

Qasem Soleimani

1957 - 2020

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Qasem Soleimani (Persian: قاسم سلیمانی, romanized: Qâsem Soleymâni; 11 March 1957 – 3 January 2020) was an Iranian military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). From 1998 until his assassination by the United States in 2020, he was the commander of the Quds Force, an IRGC division primarily responsible for extraterritorial and clandestine military operations, and played a key role in the Syrian Civil War through securing Russian intervention. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Qasem Soleimani has received more than 9,114,871 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Qasem Soleimani is the 83rd most popular military personnel (up from 297th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Iran (up from 96th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Iranian Military Personnel.

Qasem Soleimani is most famous for his leading role in the Iran-Iraq War and the Iran-Iraq War.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 81

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Qasem Soleimani ranks 83 out of 2,058. Before him are Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Edward Smith, Günther von Kluge, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, and Abu Muslim. After him are Yi Sun-sin, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Ivan Konev, Subutai, Erich Hartmann, and Hattori Hanzō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Qasem Soleimani ranks 3. Before him are Osama bin Laden, and Hamid Karzai. After him are Hans Zimmer, Donald Tusk, Bongbong Marcos, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Clarke Duncan, Aki Kaurismäki, Dolph Lundgren, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. Among people deceased in 2020, Qasem Soleimani ranks 10. Before him are Ennio Morricone, Kirk Douglas, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Pierre Cardin, Qaboos bin Said al Said, and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. After him are Alan Parker, Max von Sydow, Olivia de Havilland, Paolo Rossi, Michel Piccoli, and Krzysztof Penderecki.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Qasem Soleimani ranks 41 out of 631. Before him are Nizam al-Mulk (1018), Shams Tabrizi (1185), Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201), Antiochus III the Great (-241), Saadi Shirazi (1210), and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956). After him are Jami (1414), Farah Pahlavi (1938), Shapur I (150), Ardashir I (180), Cambyses I (-600), and Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Iran

Among military personnels born in Iran, Qasem Soleimani ranks 2. Before him are Tughril (990). After him are Bahram Chobin (600), Datis (-600), Harpagus (-700), Esmail Ghaani (1957), Hossein Salami (1960), Jalil Zandi (1951), Ahmad Vahidi (1958), Mohammad Ali Jafari (1957), Nasser Shabani (1957), and Razi Mousavi (1962).

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