Umayya ibn Abd Shams (Arabic: أمية بن عبد شمس) was the son of Abd Shams and is the progenitor of the line of the Umayyad caliphs. Anti-Umayyad polemic says that his name is derived from 'afa', a diminutive of the word for slave-girl, and instead of being the legitimate son of Abd Shams, Ibn al-Kalbi claims that he was adopted by him. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Umayya ibn Abd Shams has received more than 250,955 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Umayya ibn Abd Shams is the 7,368th most popular politician.
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Among politicians, Umayya ibn Abd Shams ranks 7,368 out of 15,577. Before him are Zhenjin, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, Firuz Shah Tughlaq, Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Gulzarilal Nanda, and Malyuta Skuratov. After him are Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Bernhard Schmidt, Theophano Martinakia, Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar, and Bettino Ricasoli.
1243 - 1286
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 7,362
1811 - 1875
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 7,363
1309 - 1388
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 7,364
1789 - 1868
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 7,365
1898 - 1998
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 7,366
1600 - 1573
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 7,367
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 7,368
1880 - 1951
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 7,369
1823 - 1898
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 7,370
1879 - 1935
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 7,371
865 - 893
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 7,372
840 - 879
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 7,373
1809 - 1880
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 7,374