POLITICIAN

Wasfi Tal

1919 - 1971

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Wasfi Tal (Arabic: وصفي التل; also known as Wasfi Tell; 1920 – 28 November 1971) was a Jordanian politician, statesman and military officer. He served as the 15th Prime Minister of Jordan for three separate terms, 1962–63, 1965–67 and 1970 until his assassination in 1971. Tal was born in Arapgir, Turkey to prominent Jordanian poet Mustafa Wahbi Tal and a Kurdish mother. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wasfi Tal has received more than 200,900 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Wasfi Tal is the 9,717th most popular politician (up from 11,465th in 2019), the 665th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 906th in 2019) and the 272nd most popular Turkish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wasfi Tal ranks 9,717 out of 19,576Before him are Adalbert I, Count of Vermandois, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Albert Zafy, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Ashot I of Iberia, and Justas Paleckis. After him are Dục Đức, Alfonso Fróilaz, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Vadim Bakatin, Hussein al-Houthi, and Dirk Jan de Geer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Wasfi Tal ranks 119Before him are Bernhard Wicki, Anatoly Dobrynin, Vikram Sarabhai, Doris Miller, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, and Paavo Aaltonen. After him are Hyman Minsky, Red Buttons, Lisa Della Casa, Anne Buydens, Briek Schotte, and Werner Goldberg. Among people deceased in 1971, Wasfi Tal ranks 86Before him are Georgy Babakin, Mikhail Yangel, Bella Darvi, Gertrud von Le Fort, Vikram Sarabhai, and Mikhail Romm. After him are Shigeyoshi Suzuki, Otto Lasch, James Alberione, Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev, and Gregorio Pietro Agagianian.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Wasfi Tal ranks 665 out of 1,347Before him are Bardas Phokas the Younger (940), Joseph Genesius (1000), Cleostratus (-520), Arda Turan (1987), Agop Dilâçar (1895), and Iaia (-100). After him are Evodius (50), Bryaxis (-400), Maximus of Ephesus (310), Halil Kut (1882), Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906), and Baltacı Mehmet Pasha (1662).

Among POLITICIANS In Türkiye

Among politicians born in Türkiye, Wasfi Tal ranks 272Before him are Rauf Orbay (1881), Şükrü Saracoğlu (1887), Mustafa Çelebi (1380), Theodore I Palaiologos (1355), Manuel III of Trebizond (1364), and Attalus III (-170). After him are Halil Kut (1882), Baltacı Mehmet Pasha (1662), Alexander Ypsilantis (1726), Constantine Ypsilantis (1760), John Komnenos (1015), and Raymond-Roupen (1199).