1785 - 1842
Shah Shuja Durrani (Pashto/Persian: شاه شجاع درانی ; November 1785 – 5 April 1842) was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1803 to 1809. He then ruled from 1839 until his death in 1842. Son of Timur Shah Durrani, Shuja Shah was of the Sadduzai line of the Abdali group of ethnic Pashtuns. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shah Shujah Durrani has received more than 299,129 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Shah Shujah Durrani is the 11,131st most popular politician (down from 10,937th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 75th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Afghan Politician.
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Among politicians, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 11,131 out of 15,577. Before him are Madhavrao I, Ulric Manfred II of Turin, Kharavela, Mohammad Ali Foroughi, Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, and Henry of Scotland. After him are Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus, Moritz Leuenberger, Hetephernebti, Lucius Marcius Philippus, Henry Ireton, and Carl Gustaf Ekman.
1745 - 1772
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 11,125
901 - 1034
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 11,126
300 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 11,127
1877 - 1942
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 11,128
1693 - 1768
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 11,129
1115 - 1152
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 11,130
1785 - 1842
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 11,131
200 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 50.67
Rank: 11,132
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.67
Rank: 11,133
2700 BC - 2700 BC
HPI: 50.67
Rank: 11,134
150 BC - Present
HPI: 50.67
Rank: 11,135
1611 - 1651
HPI: 50.67
Rank: 11,136
1872 - 1945
HPI: 50.66
Rank: 11,137
Among people born in 1785, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 36. Before him are Adam Sedgwick, Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Victor de Broglie, Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, August Immanuel Bekker, and William Jackson Hooker. After him are Vicente López y Planes, Agustín Gamarra, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Francisco Antonio Pinto, Anna Sundström, and Étienne Constantin de Gerlache. Among people deceased in 1842, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 27. Before him are Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Thomas Arnold, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, and Pierre Baillot. After him are Robert Smith, Leona Vicario, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Nodira, Wilhelm Gesenius, and James Ivory.
1785 - 1873
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 30
1785 - 1853
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 31
1785 - 1870
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 32
1785 - 1871
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 33
1785 - 1871
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 34
1785 - 1865
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 35
1785 - 1842
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 36
1785 - 1856
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 37
1785 - 1841
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 38
1785 - 1840
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 39
1785 - 1858
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 40
1785 - 1871
HPI: 48.65
Rank: 41
1785 - 1871
HPI: 48.59
Rank: 42
1764 - 1842
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 21
1760 - 1842
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 22
1795 - 1842
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 23
1766 - 1842
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 24
1786 - 1842
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 25
1771 - 1842
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 26
1785 - 1842
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 27
1757 - 1842
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 28
1789 - 1842
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 29
1774 - 1842
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 30
1792 - 1842
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 31
1786 - 1842
HPI: 48.91
Rank: 32
1765 - 1842
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 33
Among people born in Afghanistan, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 85 out of 145. Before him are Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Heliocles I (-200), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Rabia Balkhi (1000), Amrullah Saleh (1972), and Gulbadan Begum (1523). After him are Akhtar Mansour (1968), Ayub Khan (1857), Ali Hujwiri (1009), Unsuri (980), Farrukhi Sistani (980), and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946).
1816 - 1845
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 79
200 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 80
300 BC - 180 BC
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 81
1000 - Present
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 82
1972 - Present
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 83
1523 - 1603
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 84
1785 - 1842
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 85
1968 - 2016
HPI: 50.58
Rank: 86
1857 - 1914
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 87
1009 - 1072
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 88
980 - 1039
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 89
980 - 1037
HPI: 49.66
Rank: 90
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 91
Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 60. Before him are Mirwais Hotak (1673), Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Heliocles I (-200), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), and Amrullah Saleh (1972). After him are Akhtar Mansour (1968), Ayub Khan (1857), Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946), Abdul Qadir (1944), Mahmud Tarzi (1865), and Amr ibn al-Layth (null).
1673 - 1715
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 54
1951 - Present
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 55
1816 - 1845
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 56
200 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 57
300 BC - 180 BC
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 58
1972 - Present
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 59
1785 - 1842
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 60
1968 - 2016
HPI: 50.58
Rank: 61
1857 - 1914
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 62
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 63
1944 - 2014
HPI: 48.48
Rank: 64
1865 - 1933
HPI: 48.40
Rank: 65
HPI: 48.37
Rank: 66