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Tariq Aziz

1936 - 2015

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Tariq Aziz (Arabic: طارق عزيز Ṭāriq ʿAzīz, 28 April 1936 – 5 June 2015) was an Iraqi politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and a close advisor of President Saddam Hussein. Their association began in the 1950s when both were activists for the then-banned Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He was both an Arab nationalist and a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church.Due to security concerns, Saddam Hussein rarely left Iraq, so Aziz would often be Iraq's highest level representative at international diplomatic summits. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tariq Aziz has received more than 1,175,500 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Tariq Aziz is the 2,026th most popular politician (up from 2,134th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 57th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Iraqi Politician.

Tariq Aziz is most famous for being the foreign minister of Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Tariq Azizs by language

Over the past year Tariq Aziz has had the most page views in the with 163,051 views, followed by Arabic (80,907), and Persian (39,547). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (69.58%), Indonesian (55.91%), and Catalan (54.09%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tariq Aziz ranks 2,026 out of 19,576. Before him are Albert the Bear, Albert, King of Sweden, Frederick the Fair, Muhammad bin Saud, Luís I of Portugal, and Amenemhat I. After him are Yusuf ibn Tashfin, Al-Amin, Stefan Milutin, Ivan I of Moscow, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and Beyhan Sultan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Tariq Aziz ranks 35. Before him are Ferid Murad, Richard Bach, Georges Perec, Roy Orbison, Aga Khan IV, and Glen Campbell. After him are Robert Woodrow Wilson, Jim Clark, Burt Reynolds, Albert Finney, Gerhard Ertl, and Buddy Holly. Among people deceased in 2015, Tariq Aziz ranks 26. Before him are Kim Young-sam, Richard von Weizsäcker, Ulrich Beck, Leonard Nimoy, Lemmy, and Yitzhak Navon. After him are Otto Carius, Kenan Evren, Irwin Rose, Charles H. Townes, Zito, and Eduardo Galeano.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Tariq Aziz ranks 59 out of 384. Before him are Junayd of Baghdad (830), Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914), Ibn Hisham (701), Ali Hassan al-Majid (1941), Ya'qubi (801), and Fuad Masum (1938). After him are Al-Amin (787), Šuppiluliuma I (-1344), Nabopolassar (-658), Qutayba ibn Muslim (668), Abdul Latif Rashid (1944), and Rashid ad-Din Sinan (1130).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Tariq Aziz ranks 31. Before him are Shalmaneser III (-900), Nahum (-600), Ashurnasirpal II (-1000), Al-Mutawakkil (822), Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914), and Fuad Masum (1938). After him are Al-Amin (787), Šuppiluliuma I (-1344), Nabopolassar (-658), Abdul Latif Rashid (1944), Tiglath-Pileser III (-755), and Sajida Talfah (1937).

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