600 BC - 600 BC
Tomyris (; Saka: *Taumuriyaʰ; Ancient Greek: Τομυρις, romanized: Tomuris; Latin: Tomyris) also called Thomyris, Tomris, or Tomiride, is known only from the Greek historian Herodotus. According to him, she reigned over the Massagetae, an Iranian Saka people of Central Asia. Tomyris led her armies to defend against an attack by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire, and defeated and killed him in 530 BC. She had his severed head placed in a bag or bowl filled with blood, saying to it "There: drink your fill of blood!" She is not mentioned in the few other early sources covering the period, especially Ctesias. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomyris has received more than 1,296,862 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Tomyris is the 210th most popular politician (up from 453rd in 2019), the most popular biography from Kazakhstan (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Kazakhstani Politician.
Tomyris was a queen of the Massagetae, a nomadic people of Central Asia. Her army had defeated the Persians and she is most famous for defeating Cyrus the Great in 530 BC.
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Among politicians, Tomyris ranks 210 out of 15,577. Before her are George VI, Mahidevran, Alexander III of Russia, Rudolf Hess, Mehmed VI, and Yuri Andropov. After her are Brutus the Younger, Xi Jinping, Ferdinand I of Austria, Harun al-Rashid, Ho Chi Minh, and Ferdinand II of Aragon.
1895 - 1952
HPI: 77.75
Rank: 204
1500 - 1581
HPI: 77.74
Rank: 205
1845 - 1894
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 206
1894 - 1987
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 207
1861 - 1926
HPI: 77.68
Rank: 208
1914 - 1984
HPI: 77.66
Rank: 209
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 77.64
Rank: 210
85 BC - 42 BC
HPI: 77.64
Rank: 211
1953 - Present
HPI: 77.64
Rank: 212
1793 - 1875
HPI: 77.62
Rank: 213
766 - 809
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 214
1890 - 1969
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 215
1452 - 1516
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 216
Among people born in 600 BC, Tomyris ranks 2. Before her is Cyrus the Great. After her are Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, Esther, Lucretia, Peisistratos, Servius Tullius, Ānanda, Belshazzar, Cambyses I, Pheidippides, and Hippasus. Among people deceased in 600 BC, Tomyris ranks 3. Before her are Laozi and Daniel. After her are Draco, Belshazzar, Habakkuk, Astyages, Maya, Epimenides, Theano, Anacharsis, and Phalaris.
600 BC - 530 BC
HPI: 80.61
Rank: 1
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 77.64
Rank: 2
600 BC - 495 BC
HPI: 77.40
Rank: 3
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 76.09
Rank: 4
600 BC - 509 BC
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 5
600 BC - 527 BC
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 6
600 BC - 535 BC
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 7
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 8
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 9
600 BC - 559 BC
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 10
600 BC - 490 BC
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 11
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 12
604 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 1
690 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 78.60
Rank: 2
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 77.64
Rank: 3
650 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 4
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 5
626 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 6
700 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 7
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 69.19
Rank: 8
690 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 9
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 10
700 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 11
700 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 12
Among people born in Kazakhstan, Tomyris ranks 1 out of 154. After her are Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940), Baibars (1223), Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (1953), Ahmad Yasawi (1103), Seljuk (902), Lavr Kornilov (1870), Akhmad Kadyrov (1951), Aslan Maskhadov (1951), Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946), and Shoqan Walikhanov (1835).
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 77.64
Rank: 1
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.59
Rank: 2
1223 - 1277
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 3
1953 - Present
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 4
1103 - 1166
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 5
902 - 1038
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 6
1870 - 1918
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 7
1951 - 2004
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 8
1951 - 2005
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 9
1845 - 1904
HPI: 65.60
Rank: 10
1946 - 2022
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 11
1835 - 1865
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 12
Among politicians born in Kazakhstan, Tomyris ranks 1. After her are Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940), Baibars (1223), Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (1953), Seljuk (902), Akhmad Kadyrov (1951), Aslan Maskhadov (1951), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946), Ablai Khan (1711), Dinmukhamed Kunaev (1912), Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev (1952), and Muhammad Shaybani (1451).
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 77.64
Rank: 1
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.59
Rank: 2
1223 - 1277
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 3
1953 - Present
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 4
902 - 1038
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 5
1951 - 2004
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 6
1951 - 2005
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 7
1946 - 2022
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 8
1711 - 1781
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 9
1912 - 1993
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 10
1952 - 2004
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 11
1451 - 1510
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 12