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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

1920 - 1975

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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), popularly known by the honorific prefix Bangabandhu (lit. 'Friend of Bengal') was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist and diarist. As a politician, Mujib had held continuous positions as president or prime minister from April 1971 until his assassination in August 1975: as president from 1971 to 1972 and briefly from 1975 until his death, and as prime minister from 1972 to 1975. Mujib successfully led the Bangladeshi independence movement and restored the Bengali sovereignty after over two centuries following the Battle of Plassey in 1757, for which he is honoured as the 'Father of the Nation' in Bangladesh. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has received more than 5,069,172 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is the 1,645th most popular politician (up from 1,932nd in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Bangladesh and the most popular Bangladeshi Politician.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the first president of Bangladesh and is most famous for leading the Bengali independence movement.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 80

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Sheikh Mujibur Rahmen by language

Over the past year Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has had the most page views in the with 853,652 views, followed by Bengali (796,244), and Arabic (17,476). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Turkish (255.33%), Bashkir (122.87%), and Lithuanian (74.58%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ranks 1,645 out of 19,576. Before him are Critias, Aung San, Empress Lü, Ferdinand Marcos, Robert, Count of Clermont, and Charles II of Naples. After him are Cemal Gürsel, Publius Clodius Pulcher, Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Euric, and Francis, Duke of Guise.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ranks 22. Before him are Frank Herbert, Amália Rodrigues, Boris Vian, Traudl Junge, Éric Rohmer, and Richard von Weizsäcker. After him are Charlie Parker, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Helmut Newton, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and François Jacob. Among people deceased in 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ranks 17. Before him are Josephine Baker, Arnold J. Toynbee, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Saint-John Perse. After him are George Paget Thomson, Josemaría Escrivá, Robert Robinson, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Antonín Novotný, and Graham Hill.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ranks 2 out of 74. Before him are Muhammad Yunus (1940). After him are Sri Chinmoy (1931), Atiśa (982), Sheikh Hasina (1947), Abdul Hamid (1944), Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858), Chandragupta I (250), William Beveridge (1879), Mohammed Shahabuddin (1949), Begum Rokeya (1880), and Zillur Rahman (1929).

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Among POLITICIANS In Bangladesh

Among politicians born in Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ranks 1. After him are Sheikh Hasina (1947), Abdul Hamid (1944), Chandragupta I (250), Mohammed Shahabuddin (1949), Zillur Rahman (1929), Ziaur Rahman (1936), Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894), Iajuddin Ahmed (1931), Tajuddin Ahmad (1925), Shahabuddin Ahmed (1930), and Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad (1918).

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