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Wazir Akbar Khan

1816 - 1845

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Wazīr Akbar Khān (Pashto/Dari: وزير اکبر خان; 1816–1847), born Mohammad Akbar Khān (محمد اکبر خان) and also known as Amīr Akbar Khān (امير اکبر خان), was a Barakzai prince, general, emir for a year, and finally wazir/heir apparent to Dost Mohammad Khan until his death in 1847. His fame began with the 1837 Battle of Jamrud, while attempting to regain Afghanistan's second capital Peshawar from the Sikh Empire. Wazir Akbar Khan was militarily active in the First Anglo-Afghan War, which lasted from 1839 to 1842. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wazir Akbar Khan has received more than 359,854 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Wazir Akbar Khan is the 11,921st most popular politician (down from 10,145th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 79th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Afghan Politician.

Memorability Metrics

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wazir Akbar Khan ranks 11,921 out of 19,576. Before him are Nereu Ramos, Prince Aribert of Anhalt, Pascual Orozco, Lee Beom-seok, Richard von Kühlmann, and Pieter van Vollenhoven. After him are Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin, Dragoljub Ojdanić, Dimitrie Sturdza, Alfons Gorbach, Pedro Carmona, and James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Wazir Akbar Khan ranks 34. Before him are Ion Ghica, Jean Frédéric Frenet, William Gull, Emanuel Leutze, Jan Arnošt Smoler, and Moritz Steinschneider. After him are Jubal Early, Paul Gervais, Dmitry Milyutin, Henri Dupuy de Lôme, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, and August Wilhelm Ambros. Among people deceased in 1845, Wazir Akbar Khan ranks 29. Before him are Heinrich von Bellegarde, Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, Henrik Steffens, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Gregor MacGregor, and Nils Gabriel Sefström. After him are Antoine Risso, Elizabeth Fry, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Johnny Appleseed, Matvei Gedenshtrom, and Josef Danhauser.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Wazir Akbar Khan ranks 90 out of 177. Before him are Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Ibrahim al-Nazzam (760), Afghan Girl (1972), Abdul Qadir (1944), Abdul Ahad Mohmand (1959), and Ali Hujwiri (1009). After him are Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (1139), Farrukhi Sistani (980), Mahmud Tarzi (1865), Shah Shujah Durrani (1785), Amrullah Saleh (1972), and Heliocles I (-200).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Wazir Akbar Khan ranks 59. Before him are Mawdud of Ghazni (1012), Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza (1422), Abdul Ali Mazari (1946), Mohammad Yaqub Khan (1849), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), and Abdul Qadir (1944). After him are Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (1139), Mahmud Tarzi (1865), Shah Shujah Durrani (1785), Amrullah Saleh (1972), Heliocles I (-200), and Kamran Mirza (1512).

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