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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 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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  • 330k

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  • 51.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Afghanistan

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).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

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).

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