POLITICIAN

Shapour Bakhtiar

1914 - 1991

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Shapour Bakhtiar (Persian: شاپور بختیار, ; 26 June 1914 – 6 August 1991) was an Iranian politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Iran under the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In the words of historian Abbas Milani: "more than once in the tone of a jeremiad he reminded the nation of the dangers of clerical despotism, and of how the fascism of the mullahs would be darker than any military junta". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shapour Bakhtiar has received more than 690,719 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Shapour Bakhtiar is the 4,632nd most popular politician (up from 5,923rd in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Iran (up from 179th in 2019) and the 88th most popular Iranian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shapour Bakhtiar ranks 4,632 out of 19,576. Before him are Michel Suleiman, Peter Delyan, Imi Lichtenfeld, Joaquim Chissano, Sinan Pasha, and Naresuan. After him are Teófilo Braga, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Zeng Guofan, Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Zhao Tuo, and Katrín Jakobsdóttir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Shapour Bakhtiar ranks 55. Before him are Norman Borlaug, Adolfo Bioy Casares, William Westmoreland, Robert Wise, Alan Hodgkin, and Renato Dulbecco. After him are Akira Nozawa, James Van Allen, Francisco da Costa Gomes, Creighton Abrams, Mario Bava, and Lilli Palmer. Among people deceased in 1991, Shapour Bakhtiar ranks 47. Before him are James Irwin, Tom of Finland, Gene Tierney, Ivan Kozhedub, Salvador Luria, and Mohammed Abdel Wahab. After him are Richard Stone, Tony Richardson, Robert Maxwell, Alfonso García Robles, Princess Ileana of Romania, and Ralph Bellamy.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Shapour Bakhtiar ranks 160 out of 631. Before him are Al-Khazini (1077), Al-Karaji (953), Vologases IV (150), Ibn Babawayh (918), Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203), and Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236). After him are Vologases VI (200), Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), Ashraf Pahlavi (1919), Abbas Mirza (1789), Phraates V (-100), and Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Shapour Bakhtiar ranks 88. Before him are Ata-Malik Juvayni (1226), Teispes (-675), Phraates IV (-90), Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922), Amytis of Media (-630), and Vologases IV (150). After him are Vologases VI (200), Ashraf Pahlavi (1919), Abbas Mirza (1789), Phraates V (-100), Vologases III of Parthia (100), and Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1942).

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