1816 - 1845
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 332,725 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Wazir Akbar Khan is the 10,173rd most popular politician (up from 10,642nd in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 72nd in 2019) and the 56th most popular Afghan Politician.
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Among politicians, Wazir Akbar Khan ranks 10,173 out of 15,577. Before him are Muhammad I al-Mustansir, Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola, Girolamo Aleandro, Ian Khama, Ivars Godmanis, and Nicolae Titulescu. After him are Gungunum, Sergey Uvarov, François Hanriot, Poul Hartling, Otto III, Duke of Carinthia, and Christiaan de Wet.
1228 - 1277
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 10,167
1385 - 1432
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 10,168
1480 - 1542
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 10,169
1953 - Present
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 10,170
1951 - Present
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 10,171
1882 - 1941
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 10,172
1816 - 1845
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 10,173
2000 BC - 2000 BC
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 10,174
1786 - 1855
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 10,175
1761 - 1794
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 10,176
1914 - 2000
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 10,177
1265 - 1310
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 10,178
1854 - 1922
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 10,179
Among people born in 1816, Wazir Akbar Khan ranks 24. Before him are Antoine François Marmontel, Rudolf Wolf, Charles-Denis Bourbaki, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, John Frederick Kensett, and Malwida von Meysenbug. After him are Ion Ghica, Jan Arnošt Smoler, August Karl von Goeben, William Gull, Emanuel Leutze, and Dmitry Milyutin. Among people deceased in 1845, Wazir Akbar Khan ranks 24. Before him are Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, Gregor MacGregor, George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Nikoloz Baratashvili, and Jónas Hallgrímsson. After him are Rafael Urdaneta, Henrik Steffens, Christian Frederik Hansen, Johnny Appleseed, Nils Gabriel Sefström, and Elizabeth Fry.
1816 - 1898
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 18
1816 - 1893
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 19
1816 - 1897
HPI: 53.27
Rank: 20
1816 - 1880
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 21
1816 - 1872
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 22
1816 - 1903
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 23
1816 - 1845
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 24
1816 - 1897
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 25
1816 - 1884
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 26
1816 - 1880
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 27
1816 - 1890
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 28
1816 - 1868
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 29
1816 - 1912
HPI: 50.60
Rank: 30
1756 - 1845
HPI: 53.74
Rank: 18
1786 - 1845
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 19
1789 - 1845
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 20
1770 - 1845
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 21
1817 - 1845
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 22
1807 - 1845
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 23
1816 - 1845
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 24
1788 - 1845
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 25
1773 - 1845
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 26
1756 - 1845
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 27
1774 - 1845
HPI: 50.37
Rank: 28
1787 - 1845
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 29
1780 - 1845
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 30
Among people born in Afghanistan, Wazir Akbar Khan ranks 79 out of 145. Before him are Mirwais Hotak (1673), Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji (1101), Afghan Girl (1972), Abdul Ahad Mohmand (1959), Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), and Al-Sijzi (945). After him are Heliocles I (-200), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Rabia Balkhi (1000), Amrullah Saleh (1972), Gulbadan Begum (1523), and Shah Shujah Durrani (1785).
1673 - 1715
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 73
1101 - 1206
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 74
1972 - Present
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 75
1959 - Present
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 76
1951 - Present
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 77
945 - 1020
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 78
1816 - 1845
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 79
200 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 80
300 BC - 180 BC
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 81
1000 - Present
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 82
1972 - Present
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 83
1523 - 1603
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 84
1785 - 1842
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 85
Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Wazir Akbar Khan ranks 56. Before him are Jalal-ud-din Khalji (1220), Kujula Kadphises (20), Ashraf Hotak (1700), Mohammad Yaqub Khan (1849), Mirwais Hotak (1673), and Zalmay Khalilzad (1951). After him are Heliocles I (-200), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Amrullah Saleh (1972), Shah Shujah Durrani (1785), Akhtar Mansour (1968), and Ayub Khan (1857).
1220 - 1296
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 50
20 - 80
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 51
1700 - 1730
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 52
1849 - 1923
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 53
1673 - 1715
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 54
1951 - Present
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 55
1816 - 1845
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 56
200 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 57
300 BC - 180 BC
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 58
1972 - Present
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 59
1785 - 1842
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 60
1968 - 2016
HPI: 50.58
Rank: 61
1857 - 1914
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 62