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Rashid Ali al-Gaylani

1892 - 1965

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Rashid Ali al-Gaylani (Al-Gailani) (Arabic: رشيد عالي الکَيلاني, Arabic pronunciation: [raʃiːd ʕaːliː al.keːlaːniː]) (1892 – 28 August 1965) was an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq on three occasions: from March to November 1933, from March 1940 to February 1941 and from April to May 1941. He is chiefly remembered as an ardent Arab nationalist and Arab fascist who attempted to remove British influence from Iraq by starting a coup against the government in 1941. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rashid Ali al-Gaylani has received more than 429,694 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Rashid Ali al-Gaylani is the 6,650th most popular politician (down from 6,095th in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 163rd in 2019) and the 119th most popular Iraqi Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani ranks 6,650 out of 19,576. Before him are Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, Meir Amit, Friedrich Naumann, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Félix Gouin, and Cao Kun. After him are Neferirkare, Emperor Xizong of Jin, Phriapatius, Valdis Zatlers, Kubaba, and Emperor Xuanzong of Jin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani ranks 90. Before him are Thomas Mitchell, Jack L. Warner, Stanisław Sosabowski, Arnold Hauser, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Konstantin Paustovsky. After him are Alice Ball, Radola Gajda, Djuna Barnes, Nikolai Polikarpov, Agnes Smedley, and Ivan Šubašić. Among people deceased in 1965, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani ranks 50. Before him are Henry A. Wallace, Chen Cheng, Hayato Ikeda, Jesse Douglas, Georges Gurvitch, and Herberts Cukurs. After him are Taimur bin Feisal, Porfirio Rubirosa, Carl Værnet, Otozō Yamada, William M. Branham, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani ranks 185 out of 384. Before him are Al-Muqtafi (1096), Ur-Nanshe (-2500), Al-Mu'tamid (844), Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (1002), Mahmud Shevket Pasha (1856), and Artabanus I of Parthia (-200). After him are Kubaba (-2500), Ibrahim al-Jaafari (1947), Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (1936), Al-Mustadi (1142), Adil Abdul-Mahdi (1942), and Al-Hakim I (1247).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani ranks 119. Before him are At-Ta'i (932), Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid (882), Rimush (null), Al-Muqtafi (1096), Al-Mu'tamid (844), and Artabanus I of Parthia (-200). After him are Kubaba (-2500), Ibrahim al-Jaafari (1947), Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (1936), Al-Mustadi (1142), Adil Abdul-Mahdi (1942), and Al-Hakim I (1247).

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