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Rifaat al-Assad

1937 - Today

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Rifaat Ali al-Assad (Arabic: رِفْعَتُ عَلِيِّ ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Rifʿat al-ʾAsad; born 22 August 1937), known as the "Butcher of Hama", is a Syrian former military officer and politician. He is the younger brother of the late President of Syria, Hafez al-Assad, and Jamil al-Assad, and the uncle of the former President Bashar al-Assad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rifaat al-Assad has received more than 816,818 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Rifaat al-Assad is the 5,816th most popular politician (up from 6,454th in 2019).

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  • 820k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rifaat al-Assad ranks 5,816 out of 19,576. Before him are Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Yaakov Dori, Thomas Boni Yayi, Leopold Berchtold, and Theroigne de Mericourt. After him are Petr Fiala, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Sam Houston, Behgjet Pacolli, Aurelius of Asturias, and Koča Popović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Rifaat al-Assad ranks 90. Before him are Richard Møller Nielsen, Manuel Pinto da Costa, Naji al-Ali, Yoshirō Mori, Maryse Condé, and Cornelius A. Smith. After him are Franz Vranitzky, Boris Pugo, Bruce McCandless II, Billy Dee Williams, Ronald Venetiaan, and Neeme Järvi.

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