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Tunku Abdul Rahman

1903 - 1990

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Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah (Jawi: ‏تونكو عبد الرحمن ڤوترا الحاج ابن المرحوم سلطان عبد الحميد حليم شاه; 8 February 1903 – 6 December 1990) was a Malaysian statesman and lawyer who served as the first prime minister of Malaysia and the head of government of its predecessor states from 1955 to 1970. He was the first chief minister of the Federation of Malaya from 1955 to 1957. He supervised the independence process that culminated on 31 August 1957. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tunku Abdul Rahman has received more than 1,976,655 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Tunku Abdul Rahman is the 2,252nd most popular politician (up from 2,382nd in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Malaysia and the 2nd most popular Malaysian Politician.

Tunku Abdul Rahman is most famous for being the first Prime Minister of Malaysia.

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  • 69.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tunku Abdul Rahman ranks 2,252 out of 19,576. Before him are Khieu Samphan, Ma Chao, James Callaghan, Hermann Müller, Radu cel Frumos, and Hermann von Salza. After him are Géza I of Hungary, Tiglath-Pileser III, Faustina the Younger, Emperor Itoku, Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, and Karel Schwarzenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Tunku Abdul Rahman ranks 35. Before him are Fahri Korutürk, Karl Hanke, Raymond Queneau, George Beadle, John Dillinger, and Irène Némirovsky. After him are Matthias Sindelar, Haldan Keffer Hartline, Bruno Bettelheim, Julius Fučík, Lars Onsager, and Georg Elser. Among people deceased in 1990, Tunku Abdul Rahman ranks 20. Before him are Lê Đức Thọ, Sergei Parajanov, Pavel Cherenkov, Yun Posun, Miguel Muñoz, and John Bowlby. After him are Lawrence Durrell, Bruno Bettelheim, Ilya Frank, Robert Hofstadter, Sandro Pertini, and Jacques Demy.

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In Malaysia

Among people born in Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman ranks 2 out of 90. Before him are Mahathir Mohamad (1925). After him are Michelle Yeoh (1962), Abdullah of Pahang (1959), Anwar Ibrahim (1947), Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (1939), Abdul Halim of Kedah (1927), Michael Gough (1916), Abdul Razak Hussein (1922), Najib Razak (1953), Iskandar of Johor (1932), and Hussein Onn (1922).

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Among POLITICIANS In Malaysia

Among politicians born in Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman ranks 2. Before him are Mahathir Mohamad (1925). After him are Abdullah of Pahang (1959), Anwar Ibrahim (1947), Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (1939), Abdul Halim of Kedah (1927), Abdul Razak Hussein (1922), Najib Razak (1953), Iskandar of Johor (1932), Hussein Onn (1922), Muhyiddin Yassin (1947), and Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan (1895).

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