1957 - Today
Sima Samar (Persian: سیما سمر; born 3 February 1957) is a Hazara woman and human rights advocate, activist and medical doctor within national and international forums, who served as Minister of Women's Affairs of Afghanistan from December 2001 to 2003. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sima Samar has received more than 108,347 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Sima Samar is the 12,726th most popular politician (up from 13,565th in 2019), the 97th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 89th in 2019) and the 67th most popular Afghan Politician.
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Among politicians, Sima Samar ranks 12,726 out of 15,577. Before her are Grigory Gershuni, Smendes II, Janet Reno, Aulus Atilius Serranus, Federico Franco, and Titus Herminius Aquilinus. After her are Chang Wanquan, Ljubomir Davidović, António Manoel de Vilhena, Quintus Marcius Philippus, Louis Buffet, and Walter Sisulu.
1870 - Present
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 12,720
1100 BC - 990 BC
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 12,721
1938 - 2016
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 12,722
300 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 12,723
1962 - Present
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 12,724
600 BC - 496 BC
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 12,725
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 12,726
1949 - Present
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 12,727
1863 - 1940
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 12,728
1663 - 1736
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 12,729
229 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 12,730
1818 - 1898
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 12,731
1912 - 2003
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 12,732
Among people born in 1957, Sima Samar ranks 186. Before her are Ramaz Shengelia, Bojan Križaj, Víctor Muñoz, Vladimir Tkachenko, Koji Suzuki, and David Crane. After her are Mohammed Fahim, Isaach de Bankolé, Ian Stuart Donaldson, Jackie Shroff, Theresa Russell, and Zé Sérgio.
1957 - 2012
HPI: 48.60
Rank: 180
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.59
Rank: 181
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.51
Rank: 182
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.38
Rank: 183
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.27
Rank: 184
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 185
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 186
1957 - 2014
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 187
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.15
Rank: 188
1957 - 1993
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 189
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.05
Rank: 190
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.02
Rank: 191
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.01
Rank: 192
Among people born in Afghanistan, Sima Samar ranks 97 out of 145. Before her are Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946), Meena Keshwar Kamal (1956), Malalai of Maiwand (1861), Abdul Qadir (1944), Mahmud Tarzi (1865), and Amr ibn al-Layth (null). After her are Mohammed Fahim (1957), Sultan Ali Keshtmand (1935), Kamran Mirza (1512), Atiq Rahimi (1962), Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza (1422), and Kader Khan (1937).
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 91
1956 - 1987
HPI: 48.58
Rank: 92
1861 - 1861
HPI: 48.48
Rank: 93
1944 - 2014
HPI: 48.48
Rank: 94
1865 - 1933
HPI: 48.40
Rank: 95
HPI: 48.37
Rank: 96
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 97
1957 - 2014
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 98
1935 - Present
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 99
1512 - 1557
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 100
1962 - Present
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 101
1422 - 1457
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 102
1937 - 2018
HPI: 47.27
Rank: 103
Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Sima Samar ranks 67. Before her are Akhtar Mansour (1968), Ayub Khan (1857), Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946), Abdul Qadir (1944), Mahmud Tarzi (1865), and Amr ibn al-Layth (null). After her are Mohammed Fahim (1957), Sultan Ali Keshtmand (1935), Kamran Mirza (1512), Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza (1422), Ahmad Zia Massoud (1956), and Muhammad of Ghazni (998).
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
1957 - Present
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 67
1957 - 2014
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 68
1935 - Present
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 69
1512 - 1557
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 70
1422 - 1457
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 71
1956 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 72
998 - 1041
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 73