POLITICIAN

Talal of Jordan

1909 - 1972

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Talal bin Abdullah (Arabic: طلال بن عبد الله, romanized: Ṭalāl bin ʻAbd Allāh; 26 February 1909 – 7 July 1972) was King of Jordan from the assassination of his father, King Abdullah I, on 20 July 1951 until his forced abdication on 11 August 1952. As a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family of Jordan since 1921, Talal was a 39th-generation direct descendant of Muhammad. Talal was born in Mecca as the eldest son of Abdullah bin Hussein and his wife Musbah bint Nasser. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Talal of Jordan has received more than 1,241,921 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Talal of Jordan is the 1,314th most popular politician (up from 2,125th in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (up from 82nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Saudi Arabian Politician.

Talal of Jordan is most famous for being the son of King Hussein of Jordan.

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  • 49

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  • 7.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Talal of Jordan ranks 1,314 out of 19,576. Before him are Constantine IV, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Gordian II, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Louis I of Spain, and Esarhaddon. After him are Ion Iliescu, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Ludwig III of Bavaria, Tipu Sultan, Ur-Nammu, and Al-Kamil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Talal of Jordan ranks 16. Before him are U Thant, Kwame Nkrumah, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Mohammed V of Morocco, Virginia Apgar, and Andrei Gromyko. After him are Stanislaw Ulam, Elia Kazan, Li Xiannian, Isaiah Berlin, Ernst Gombrich, and Mohammed Daoud Khan. Among people deceased in 1972, Talal of Jordan ranks 17. Before him are Igor Sikorsky, Ezra Pound, Kwame Nkrumah, Franz Halder, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Katherine Oppenheimer. After him are Paul Hausser, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Erhard Milch, Maurice Chevalier, Dino Buzzati, and Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Talal of Jordan ranks 66 out of 354. Before him are Musaylimah (600), Abdullah ibn Masud (600), Sumayyah bint Khabbat (550), Faisal I of Iraq (1885), Ammar ibn Yasir (570), and Abdullah ibn Umar (610). After him are Ibn Ishaq (704), Maymunah bint al-Harith (594), Hasan al-Basri (642), Zaynab bint Khuzayma (595), Khalid of Saudi Arabia (1912), and Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (674).

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Among POLITICIANS In Saudi Arabia

Among politicians born in Saudi Arabia, Talal of Jordan ranks 23. Before him are Fahd of Saudi Arabia (1921), Safiyya bint Huyayy (610), Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1906), Al-Walid I (668), Musaylimah (600), and Faisal I of Iraq (1885). After him are Maymunah bint al-Harith (594), Khalid of Saudi Arabia (1912), Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (674), Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf (661), Muhammad bin Saud (1710), and Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (576).

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