RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Sadegh Khalkhali

1926 - 2003

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Mohammed Sadeq Givi Khalkhali (Persian: محمدصادق گیوی خلخالی; 27 July 1926 – 26 November 2003) was an Iranian Shia cleric who is said to have "brought to his job as Chief Justice of the revolutionary courts a relish for summary execution" that earned him a reputation as Iran's "hanging judge". A farmer's son from Iranian Azeri origins was born in Givi, Azerbaijani SSR, in the Soviet Union (now in Azerbaijan). He is also reported to have born in Kivi, in the Khalkhal County, Iran (ergo his name). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sadegh Khalkhali has received more than 241,573 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Sadegh Khalkhali is the 2,021st most popular religious figure (down from 1,783rd in 2019), the 302nd most popular biography from Iran (down from 255th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Sadegh Khalkhali ranks 2,021 out of 3,187. Before him are John Francis Regis, Sophronius IV of Alexandria, Agag, William J. Seymour, Coloman of Stockerau, and Kevin of Glendalough. After him are Balthasar Bekker, Eugenios Voulgaris, Kelvin Felix, Melchior Hoffman, Amalberga of Maubeuge, and Stanislaus Hosius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Sadegh Khalkhali ranks 216. Before him are Avraham Adan, James Hillman, Alfred Körner, Lev Dyomin, Kees Rijvers, and Nikita Simonyan. After him are Allan Sandage, Yitzhak Arad, Julio Pérez, Zinaida Portnova, Peter Lax, and Friedrich Cerha. Among people deceased in 2003, Sadegh Khalkhali ranks 158. Before him are Fadwa Tuqan, Robert Stack, Kir Bulychev, Noel Redding, Christopher Hill, and Hans Hotter. After him are Jorge Oteiza, Bigode, Lewis A. Coser, Hans Hermann Groër, Augusto Monterroso, and Lu'ay al-Atassi.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Sadegh Khalkhali ranks 302 out of 631. Before him are Mohammad Ali Foroughi (1877), Mithridates V of Parthia (100), Hossein Salami (1960), Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (1906), Amastrine (-400), and Jafar Khan (1800). After him are Kader Abdolah (1954), Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886), Kushyar Gilani (971), Mahmoud Shabestari (1288), Azar Nafisi (1955), and Ali Akbar Velayati (1945).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Sadegh Khalkhali ranks 33. Before him are Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad (985), Morteza Motahhari (1919), Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (948), Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar (935), Hossein Wahid Khorasani (1921), and Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (1906). After him are Navvab Safavi (1924), Suleiman II of Persia (1714), Luarsab II of Kartli (1592), Kazim Rashti (1793), Fakhr-un-Nisa (1092), and Reza Hosseini Nassab (1960).

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