RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Ruhollah Khomeini

1902 - 1989

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Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (17 May 1900 or 24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician and religious leader who served as the first Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the main leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and ended the Iranian monarchy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruhollah Khomeini has received more than 11,978,715 page views. His biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 101 in 2019). Ruhollah Khomeini is the 37th most popular religious figure (up from 74th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Iran (up from 8th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

Ruhollah Khomeini was the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. He was the Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989.

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  • 12M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 80.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 106

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Ruhollah Khomeini ranks 37 out of 3,187. Before him are Saint Barbara, Sarah, Husayn ibn Ali, Abu Hanifa, Martin of Tours, and Jonah. After him are Pope John Paul I, Mark the Evangelist, Queen of Sheba, Anthony the Great, John the Apostle, and Muhammad al-Bukhari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Ruhollah Khomeini ranks 1. After him are Karl Popper, Charles Lindbergh, Georgy Malenkov, Paul Dirac, Leni Riefenstahl, Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Halldór Laxness, and Talcott Parsons. Among people deceased in 1989, Ruhollah Khomeini ranks 4. Before him are Salvador Dalí, Nicolae Ceaușescu, and Hirohito. After him are Bette Davis, Samuel Beckett, Herbert von Karajan, Andrei Sakharov, Ted Bundy, Konrad Lorenz, Georges Simenon, and Sergio Leone.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini ranks 4 out of 631. Before him are Omar Khayyam (1048), Al-Ghazali (1058), and Zoroaster (-2000). After him are Cyrus the Great (-600), Xerxes I (-519), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919), Ali Khamenei (1939), Darius III (-380), Harun al-Rashid (766), Ismail I (1487), and Abu Nuwas (762).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini ranks 2. Before him are Zoroaster (-2000). After him are Esther (-600), Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), Bahá'u'lláh (1817), Báb (1819), Ibn Majah (824), Mordecai (null), Sasan (200), and Anastasius of Persia (550).

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