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Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary

1932 - 2001

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Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (Persian: ثریا اسفندیاری بختیاری, romanized: Sorayâ Esfandiâri-Baxtiâri; 22 June 1932 – 25 October 2001) was Queen of Iran as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whom she married in 1951. Their marriage suffered many pressures, particularly when it became clear that she was infertile. She rejected the Shah's suggestion that he might take a second wife in order to produce an heir, as he rejected her suggestion that he might abdicate in favor of his half-brother. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary has received more than 1,322,707 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary is the 74th most popular companion (up from 78th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Iran (down from 49th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Iranian Companion.

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary was a Persian woman who was married to the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. She was a writer and an advocate for women's rights.

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  • 69.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary ranks 74 out of 784. Before her are Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Poppaea Sabina, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Maria Feodorovna, and Sawda bint Zamʿa. After her are Hecuba, Sita, Sepp Dietrich, Blanche of Castile, Rabia Bala Hatun, and Julia the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary ranks 17. Before her are Abebe Bikila, Peter O'Toole, Cesare Maldini, Luc Montagnier, Miriam Makeba, and Fernando Botero. After her are Víctor Jara, Anouk Aimée, Sylvia Plath, François Englert, Dian Fossey, and Roh Tae-woo. Among people deceased in 2001, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary ranks 7. Before her are Anthony Quinn, George Harrison, Tove Jansson, Josef Bican, Didi, and Claude Shannon. After her are Jorge Amado, Jack Lemmon, Herbert A. Simon, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and Sabiha Gökçen.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary ranks 52 out of 631. Before her are Cambyses I (-600), Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903), Bahá'u'lláh (1817), Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247), Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882), and Doris Lessing (1919). After her are Yazdegerd III (624), Shirin Ebadi (1947), Ghazan (1271), Astyages (-700), Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (940), and Báb (1819).

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Among COMPANIONS In Iran

Among companions born in Iran, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary ranks 2. Before her are Salman the Persian (568). After her are Shahnaz Pahlavi (1940), and Leila Pahlavi (1970).

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