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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 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 1,831,341 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Tunku Abdul Rahman is the 2,390th most popular politician (up from 2,555th 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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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tunku Abdul Rahman ranks 2,390 out of 15,577Before him are Jacob Zuma, Mohammad Khatami, Peng Dehuai, Kamala Harris, René Coty, and Al-Amin. After him are Fulk, King of Jerusalem, Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, Cleomenes III, Huayna Capac, Ariovistus, and Maroboduus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Tunku Abdul Rahman ranks 39Before him are Fahri Korutürk, Hugo Theorell, Raymond Queneau, Matthias Sindelar, Igor Kurchatov, and Eliot Ness. After him are George Beadle, Georg Elser, Julius Fučík, Lars Onsager, Empress Kōjun, and Andrei Grechko. Among people deceased in 1990, Tunku Abdul Rahman ranks 20Before him are John Bowlby, Pavel Cherenkov, Yun Posun, Sergei Parajanov, Lê Đức Thọ, and Keith Haring. After him are Miguel Muñoz, Robert Hofstadter, Boris Shcherbina, Lawrence Durrell, Ilya Frank, and Barbara Stanwyck.

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In Malaysia

Among people born in Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman ranks 2 out of 74Before him are Mahathir Mohamad (1925). After him are Michael Gough (1916), Abdul Halim of Kedah (1927), Michelle Yeoh (1962), Abdul Razak Hussein (1922), Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (1939), Hussein Onn (1922), Muhyiddin Yassin (1947), Jimmy Choo (1948), Najib Razak (1953), and Abdullah of Pahang (1959).

Among POLITICIANS In Malaysia

Among politicians born in Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman ranks 2Before him are Mahathir Mohamad (1925). After him are Abdul Halim of Kedah (1927), Abdul Razak Hussein (1922), Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (1939), Hussein Onn (1922), Muhyiddin Yassin (1947), Najib Razak (1953), Abdullah of Pahang (1959), Yusof Ishak (1910), Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan (1895), and Ahmad Shah of Pahang (1930).