1957 - 2020
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. He was described as "the single most powerful operative in the Middle East" and a "genius of asymmetric warfare," and former Mossad director Yossi Cohen said Soleimani's strategies had "personally tightened a noose around Israel's neck." In his later years, he was considered by some analysts to be the right-hand man of the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, and the second-most powerful person in Iran behind Khamenei.For attacks orchestrated or attempted against American and other targets abroad, Soleimani was personally sanctioned by the United Nations and the European Union, and was designated as a terrorist by the United States in 2005. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Qasem Soleimani has received more than 8,572,032 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Qasem Soleimani is the 297th most popular military personnel (down from 182nd in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Iran (down from 66th 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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Among military personnels, Qasem Soleimani ranks 297 out of 1,468. Before him are Meng Tian, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Wilhelm Bittrich, Robert Nivelle, and Tomoyuki Yamashita. After him are François Christophe de Kellermann, Hans-Joachim Marseille, Götz von Berlichingen, Toyotomi Hideyori, Alexander Yegorov, and John J. Pershing.
250 BC - 210 BC
HPI: 63.67
Rank: 291
1817 - 1895
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 292
1856 - 1929
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 293
1894 - 1979
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 294
1856 - 1924
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 295
1885 - 1946
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 296
1957 - 2020
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 297
1735 - 1820
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 298
1919 - 1942
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 299
1480 - 1562
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 300
1593 - 1615
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 301
1883 - 1939
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 302
1860 - 1948
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 303
Among people born in 1957, Qasem Soleimani ranks 17. Before him are Frances McDormand, Caroline, Princess of Hanover, Sid Vicious, Donald Tusk, Christopher Lambert, and Gloria Estefan. After him are Melanie Griffith, Aki Kaurismäki, Stefan Löfven, Steve Buscemi, Carole Bouquet, and Falco. Among people deceased in 2020, Qasem Soleimani ranks 32. Before him are Robert Hossein, Stanley Cohen, Diana Rigg, Arthur Ashkin, Lee Teng-hui, and Kenzō Takada. After him are Oliver E. Williamson, Jiří Menzel, Brian Dennehy, Lee Kun-hee, Mary Higgins Clark, and Dmitry Yazov.
1957 - Present
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 11
1957 - Present
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 12
1957 - 1979
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 13
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 14
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 15
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 16
1957 - 2020
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 17
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 18
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 19
1957 - Present
HPI: 62.87
Rank: 20
1957 - Present
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 21
1957 - Present
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 22
1957 - 1998
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 23
1927 - 2020
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 26
1922 - 2020
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 27
1938 - 2020
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 28
1922 - 2020
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 29
1923 - 2020
HPI: 63.67
Rank: 30
1939 - 2020
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 31
1957 - 2020
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 32
1932 - 2020
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 33
1938 - 2020
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 34
1938 - 2020
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 35
1942 - 2020
HPI: 63.32
Rank: 36
1927 - 2020
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 37
1924 - 2020
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 38
Among people born in Iran, Qasem Soleimani ranks 96 out of 528. Before him are Atossa (-550), Mordecai (null), Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan (1305), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831), and Yazdegerd I (400). After him are Sogdianus of Persia (-500), Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar (1872), Mithridates I of Parthia (-195), Al-Hadi (764), Mazdak (450), and Ahmad Shah Qajar (1898).
550 BC - 475 BC
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 90
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 91
1305 - 1335
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 92
1155 - 1191
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 93
1831 - 1896
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 94
400 - 421
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 95
1957 - 2020
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 96
500 BC - 423 BC
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 97
1872 - 1925
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 98
195 BC - 132 BC
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 99
764 - 786
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 100
450 - 529
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 101
1898 - 1930
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 102
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), Jalil Zandi (1951), Esmail Ghaani (1957), Hossein Salami (1960), Mohammad Ali Jafari (1957), and Nasser Shabani (1957).
990 - 1063
HPI: 73.10
Rank: 1
1957 - 2020
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 2
600 - 592
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 3
600 BC - 490 BC
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 4
700 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 5
1951 - 2001
HPI: 48.44
Rank: 6
1957 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 7
1960 - Present
HPI: 45.56
Rank: 8
1957 - Present
HPI: 43.59
Rank: 9
1957 - 2020
HPI: 36.50
Rank: 10