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Sher Ali Khan

1825 - 1879

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Sher Ali Khan (Persian and Pashto: شیر علی خان; c. 1825 – 21 February 1879) was Amir of Afghanistan from 1863 to 1866 and from 1868 until his death in 1879. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sher Ali Khan has received more than 388,641 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Sher Ali Khan is the 5,695th most popular politician (down from 4,605th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 44th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Afghan Politician.

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  • 30

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  • 5.90

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  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sher Ali Khan ranks 5,695 out of 19,576Before him are Juanita Castro, Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia, Sigfried, Count of the Ardennes, and Huo Guang. After him are Jonas Gahr Støre, Antiochus I Theos of Commagene, Angelica Balabanoff, Nicolas Catinat, Alexander V of Macedon, and Bruno Streckenbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Sher Ali Khan ranks 19Before him are Julia, Princess of Battenberg, Eduard Hanslick, Henri Giffard, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Henry Walter Bates, and Nubar Pasha. After him are Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, Mór Jókai, Princess Hildegard of Bavaria, George Phillips Bond, Charles Frederick Worth, and Edward Frankland. Among people deceased in 1879, Sher Ali Khan ranks 15Before him are Thomas Couture, Julia Margaret Cameron, August Grisebach, Charles De Coster, Jón Sigurðsson, and Maria Teresa of Savoy. After him are August Bournonville, Camille Doncieux, Heinrich Geißler, William, Prince of Orange, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, and Maurycy Gottlieb.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Sher Ali Khan ranks 47 out of 177Before him are Ibn al-Rawandi (827), Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424), Khaled Hosseini (1965), Mas'ud I of Ghazni (998), Haji Mohammad Chamkani (1947), and Tahir ibn Husayn (776). After him are Abdul Rahim Hatif (1926), Abdul Ghani Baradar (1968), Inayatullah Khan (1888), Saman Khuda (701), Ibn Hibban (883), and Abu Sa'id Gardezi (1100).

Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Sher Ali Khan ranks 34Before him are Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954), Menander I (-190), Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424), Mas'ud I of Ghazni (998), Haji Mohammad Chamkani (1947), and Tahir ibn Husayn (776). After him are Abdul Rahim Hatif (1926), Abdul Ghani Baradar (1968), Inayatullah Khan (1888), Saman Khuda (701), Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar (840), and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (1949).