1797 - 1871
Imam Shamil (Avar: Шейх Шамил, romanized: Şeyx Şamil; Arabic: الشيخ شموئيل; Russian: Имам Шамиль; 26 June 1797 – 4 February 1871) was the political, military, and spiritual leader of North Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in the 1800s, the third Imam of the Caucasian Imamate (1840–1859), and a Sunni Muslim Shaykh of the Naqshbandi Sufi Tariqa. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan has received more than 183,186 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan is the 882nd most popular politician (down from 855th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 104th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Russian Politician.
Shamil was the 3rd imam of Dagestan and is most famous for leading a jihad against Russia in the 1800s.
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Among politicians, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan ranks 882 out of 15,577. Before him are James V of Scotland, Crixus, Friedrich Ratzel, Pepin of Herstal, Pietro Badoglio, and Barbara of Cilli. After him are Andrei Gromyko, Hua Guofeng, Cato the Younger, Scorpion II, Anastasius I Dicorus, and Diane de Poitiers.
1512 - 1542
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 876
100 BC - 72 BC
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 877
1844 - 1904
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 878
635 - 714
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 879
1871 - 1956
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 880
1392 - 1451
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 881
1797 - 1871
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 882
1909 - 1989
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 883
1921 - 2008
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 884
95 BC - 46 BC
HPI: 70.06
Rank: 885
3500 BC - Present
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 886
430 - 518
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 887
1499 - 1566
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 888
Among people born in 1797, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan ranks 6. Before him are Franz Schubert, William I, German Emperor, Heinrich Heine, Mary Shelley, and Gaetano Donizetti. After him are Adolphe Thiers, Hiroshige, Joseph Henry, Charles Lyell, Ghalib, and Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Among people deceased in 1871, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan ranks 2. Before him is Charles Babbage. After him are John Herschel, Augustus De Morgan, Daniel Auber, Michael Thonet, Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Louise of the Netherlands, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Omar Pasha, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, and Sigismond Thalberg.
1797 - 1828
HPI: 85.86
Rank: 1
1797 - 1888
HPI: 78.55
Rank: 2
1797 - 1856
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 3
1797 - 1851
HPI: 75.95
Rank: 4
1797 - 1848
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 5
1797 - 1871
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 6
1797 - 1877
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 7
1797 - 1858
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 8
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 9
1797 - 1875
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 10
1797 - 1869
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 11
1797 - 1870
HPI: 64.28
Rank: 12
1791 - 1871
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 1
1797 - 1871
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 2
1792 - 1871
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 3
1806 - 1871
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 4
1782 - 1871
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 5
1796 - 1871
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 6
1843 - 1871
HPI: 63.14
Rank: 7
1828 - 1871
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 8
1805 - 1871
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 9
1806 - 1871
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 10
1827 - 1871
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 11
1812 - 1871
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan ranks 102 out of 3,262. Before him are Alexander Kerensky (1881), Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Vladimir Komarov (1927), and Nikolai Yezhov (1895). After him are Vasily Chuikov (1900), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Sergey Kirov (1886), Otto Wallach (1847), Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), and Mikhail Sholokhov (1905).
1881 - 1970
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 96
1896 - 1968
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 97
1857 - 1935
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 98
1711 - 1765
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 99
1927 - 1967
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 100
1895 - 1940
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 101
1797 - 1871
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 102
1900 - 1982
HPI: 70.06
Rank: 103
1926 - 2011
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 104
1886 - 1934
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 105
1847 - 1931
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 106
1895 - 1975
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 107
1905 - 1984
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 108
Among politicians born in Russia, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan ranks 40. Before him are Michael of Russia (1596), Alexis of Russia (1629), Vasili IV of Russia (1552), Feodor III of Russia (1661), Alexander Kerensky (1881), and Nikolai Yezhov (1895). After him are Sergey Kirov (1886), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), Lev Kamenev (1883), Vasili III of Russia (1479), Nikolai Bukharin (1888), and Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869).
1596 - 1645
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 34
1629 - 1676
HPI: 71.69
Rank: 35
1552 - 1612
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 36
1661 - 1682
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 37
1881 - 1970
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 38
1895 - 1940
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 39
1797 - 1871
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 40
1886 - 1934
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 41
1740 - 1764
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 42
1883 - 1936
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 43
1479 - 1533
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 44
1888 - 1938
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 45
1869 - 1939
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 46