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Saddam Hussein

1937 - 2006

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Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006), was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. He also served as prime minister of Iraq from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saddam Hussein has received more than 25,725,734 page views. His biography is available in 124 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 121 in 2019). Saddam Hussein is the 50th most popular politician (up from 56th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Iraq and the 3rd most popular Iraqi Politician.

Saddam Hussein was the president of Iraq from 1979 until 2003. He was most famous for his invasion of Kuwait in 1990, which led to the first Gulf War.

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  • 124

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Saddam Hussein ranks 50 out of 15,577Before him are Ulysses S. Grant, Nero, Leon Trotsky, Peter the Great, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Angela Merkel. After him are Boris Yeltsin, Nebuchadnezzar II, Nikita Khrushchev, Marcus Aurelius, Fidel Castro, and Ahmed I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Saddam Hussein ranks 1After him are Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Harald V of Norway, Valentina Tereshkova, Jack Nicholson, Ridley Scott, Dustin Hoffman, Jane Fonda, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Renzo Piano, and Bobby Charlton. Among people deceased in 2006, Saddam Hussein ranks 1After him are Augusto Pinochet, Ferenc Puskás, Slobodan Milošević, Milton Friedman, Gerald Ford, Naguib Mahfouz, Stanisław Lem, Saparmurat Niyazov, James Brown, Desmond Doss, and Heinrich Harrer.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Saddam Hussein ranks 4 out of 338Before him are Abraham (-1813), Saladin (1138), and Hammurabi (-1810). After him are Nebuchadnezzar II (-630), Abu Hanifa (698), Ashurbanipal (-685), Sargon of Akkad (-2300), Sarah (-1803), Al-Kindi (801), Ibn al-Haytham (965), and Mani (216).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Saddam Hussein ranks 3Before him are Saladin (1138) and Hammurabi (-1810). After him are Nebuchadnezzar II (-630), Ashurbanipal (-685), Sargon of Akkad (-2300), Alexander IV of Macedon (-323), Sennacherib (-740), Sargon II (-750), Nebuchadnezzar I (-1200), Khosrow II (570), and Al-Ma'mun (786).