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Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah

1930 - 2008

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Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah (Arabic: سعد العبد الله السالم الصباح, romanized: Saʿad al-ʿAbdullāh as-Sālim as-Sabāh) (13 May 1930 – 13 May 2008) was the Emir of Kuwait from 15 January until his abdication on 24 January 2006, succeeding Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Saad was a general commander in the Military of Kuwait; in addition, the first to head the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior until 16 February 1978 and the first military officer to head the Ministry of Defense since 1964. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah has received more than 473,098 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah is the 6,735th most popular politician (down from 5,982nd in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Kuwait (down from 5th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Kuwaiti Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah ranks 6,735 out of 15,577Before him are Hyder Ali, Henry VII, Duke of Bavaria, Emanuel Ringelblum, Abdel Hakim Amer, Luis Corvalán, and José Figueres Ferrer. After him are Jean-Marc Ayrault, Edvard Eriksen, José Antonio Aguirre, Ang Duong, Tughlugh Timur, and Manuel Pinto da Costa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah ranks 134Before him are Mary Quant, Tony Lip, Akiyuki Nosaka, Sergei Kovalev, Franzl Lang, and Frank McCourt. After him are Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Anatoly Lukyanov, Igor Netto, Dick Sargent, Jo Bonnier, and Ahmed Zaki Yamani. Among people deceased in 2008, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah ranks 77Before him are Joseph M. Juran, Cyd Charisse, Rajko Mitić, Estelle Getty, Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, and Gerard Damiano. After him are Donald E. Westlake, Don S. Davis, Henri Salvador, Stanley Kamel, Anthony Minghella, and Jean Delannoy.

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In Kuwait

Among people born in Kuwait, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah ranks 6 out of 27Before him are Saud of Saudi Arabia (1902), Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (1929), Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (1937), Queen Rania of Jordan (1970), and Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (1926). After him are Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (1885), Mubarak Al-Sabah (1837), Nasser Al-Sabah (1940), Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah (1895), Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah (1913), and Sabah I bin Jaber (1700).

Among POLITICIANS In Kuwait

Among politicians born in Kuwait, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah ranks 5Before him are Saud of Saudi Arabia (1902), Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (1929), Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (1937), and Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (1926). After him are Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (1885), Mubarak Al-Sabah (1837), Nasser Al-Sabah (1940), Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah (1895), Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah (1913), Sabah I bin Jaber (1700), and Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (1942).