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Rashid Ali al-Gaylani

1892 - 1965

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Rashid Ali al-Gaylani (Arabic: رشيد عالي الکَيلاني, Arabic pronunciation: [raʃiːd ʕaːliː al.keːlaːniː]) (1892 – 28 August 1965) was an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom 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 who attempted to remove the 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 383,996 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Rashid Ali al-Gaylani is the 6,110th most popular politician (down from 6,031st in 2019), the 164th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 161st in 2019) and the 105th most popular Iraqi Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani ranks 6,110 out of 15,577Before him are Zuo Zongtang, Rotrude, İsa Çelebi, Zhuge Dan, Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, and Ashur-dan III. After him are Hinrich Lohse, Jan Syrový, Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, Emperor Ninmyō, and Guillaume Henri Dufour.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani ranks 84Before him are Thomas Mitchell, Reinhold Niebuhr, Basil Rathbone, Mikhail Gurevich, Jack L. Warner, and Walther Nehring. After him are Agnes Smedley, Paul Abraham, Nikolai Polikarpov, Stanisław Sosabowski, Erich Brandenberger, and Guo Moruo. Among people deceased in 1965, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani ranks 48Before him are Mehdi Ben Barka, Porfirio Rubirosa, Otozō Yamada, Adolf Schärf, Clara Bow, and Hayato Ikeda. After him are Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i, Georges Gurvitch, Henry A. Wallace, Chen Cheng, Oskar R. Lange, and Sydney Chaplin.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani ranks 164 out of 338Before him are Phraates II (-200), Uday Hussein (1964), Al-Mustarshid (1092), Seleucus of Seleucia (-190), Diogenes of Babylon (-240), and Rimush (null). After him are Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī (746), Ur-Nanshe (-2500), Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (1002), Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i (1904), Shalmaneser IV (-900), and Sin-shumu-lishir (-700).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani ranks 105Before him are Ammi-Ditana (-1700), Al-Musta'in (836), Phraates II (-200), Uday Hussein (1964), Al-Mustarshid (1092), and Rimush (null). After him are Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i (1904), Shalmaneser IV (-900), Sin-shumu-lishir (-700), Al-Muti (914), Al-Muqtafi (1096), and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti (1951).