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Tippu Tip

1837 - 1905

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Tippu Tip, or Tippu Tib (1832 – June 14, 1905), real name Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʿah ibn Rajab ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al Murjabī (Arabic: حمد بن محمد بن جمعة بن رجب بن محمد بن سعيد المرجبي‎), was an Afro-Omani ivory and slave trader, explorer, governor and plantation owner. He worked for a succession of the sultans of Zanzibar. Tippu Tip traded in slaves for Zanzibar's clove plantations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tippu Tip has received more than 522,890 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Tippu Tip is the 6,324th most popular politician (down from 6,149th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Tanzania and the 3rd most popular Tanzanian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 520k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tippu Tip ranks 6,324 out of 15,710. Before him are Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, Vazul, Arthur Drewry, Shar-Kali-Sharri, Luis of Spain, Count of Chinchón, and Ippolito II d'Este. After him are Rei Kawakubo, King Kang of Zhou, Rhesus of Thrace, Muhammad VIII al-Amin, Khaled Mashal, and Robert I, Latin Emperor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Tippu Tip ranks 37. Before him are Édouard Stephan, Wild Bill Hickok, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Vasily Radlov, Ion Creangă, and Algernon Charles Swinburne. After him are Henry Draper, Théodore Dubois, Joseph Bell, Georg Ebers, Moritz Kaposi, and Prince Albert of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1905, Tippu Tip ranks 29. Before him are Alphonse Allais, Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, Ivan Sechenov, Oswald Achenbach, Marcel Schwob, and Anton Ažbe. After him are Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Per Teodor Cleve, Carmine Crocco, Infanta Amalia of Spain, Lew Wallace, and José-Maria de Heredia.

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In Tanzania

Among people born in Tanzania, Tippu Tip ranks 4 out of 23. Before him are Freddie Mercury (1946), Julius Nyerere (1922), and Benjamin Mkapa (1938). After him are Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), John Magufuli (1959), Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar (1874), Jakaya Kikwete (1951), Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (1929), Majid bin Said of Zanzibar (1834), Mizengo Pinda (1948), and Laurean Rugambwa (1912).

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Among POLITICIANS In Tanzania

Among politicians born in Tanzania, Tippu Tip ranks 3. Before him are Julius Nyerere (1922) and Benjamin Mkapa (1938). After him are Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), John Magufuli (1959), Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar (1874), Jakaya Kikwete (1951), Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (1929), Majid bin Said of Zanzibar (1834), Mizengo Pinda (1948), Asha-Rose Migiro (1956), and Anna Tibaijuka (1950).

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