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Yasser Arafat

1929 - 2004

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Yasser Arafat (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, President of the State of Palestine from 1989 to 2004 and President of the Palestinian Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yasser Arafat has received more than 10,004,104 page views. His biography is available in 116 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 113 in 2019). Yasser Arafat is the 41st most popular politician (up from 108th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 9th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Egyptian Politician.

Yasser Arafat was the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the first president of the Palestinian National Authority. He was born in 1929 in Cairo, Egypt, and died in 2004 in Paris, France. He became famous for being a leader in the Palestinian Liberation Organization and for being the first president of the Palestinian National Authority.

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  • 10M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 87.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 116

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yasser Arafat ranks 41 out of 19,576. Before him are Maria Theresa, Richard III of England, Abraham Lincoln, Qin Shi Huang, Hillary Clinton, and Saddam Hussein. After him are Andrew Johnson, Martin Van Buren, Ulysses S. Grant, Louis XV of France, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Pericles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Yasser Arafat ranks 1. After him are Grace Kelly, Anne Frank, Audrey Hepburn, Lev Yashin, Milan Kundera, Bud Spencer, Martin Luther King Jr., Jürgen Habermas, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sergio Leone, and Hassan II of Morocco. Among people deceased in 2004, Yasser Arafat ranks 1. After him are Ronald Reagan, Marlon Brando, Ahmed Yassin, Jacques Derrida, Ray Charles, Juliana of the Netherlands, Francis Crick, Françoise Sagan, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Czesław Miłosz, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Yasser Arafat ranks 7 out of 642. Before him are Moses (-1393), Cleopatra (-69), Tutankhamun (-1341), Euclid (-350), Nefertiti (-1400), and Ptolemy (100). After him are Akhenaten (-1400), Hypatia (350), Anthony the Great (251), Origen (185), Joshua (-1355), and Catherine of Alexandria (287).

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  • Photo of Moses

    Moses

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    1393 BC - 1273 BC

    HPI: 93.73

    Rank: 1

  • Photo of Cleopatra

    Cleopatra

    POLITICIAN

    69 BC - 30 BC

    HPI: 90.58

    Rank: 2

  • Photo of Tutankhamun

    Tutankhamun

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    1341 BC - 1323 BC

    HPI: 88.27

    Rank: 3

  • Photo of Euclid

    Euclid

    MATHEMATICIAN

    350 BC - 240 BC

    HPI: 88.24

    Rank: 4

  • Photo of Nefertiti

    Nefertiti

    COMPANION

    1400 BC - 1330 BC

    HPI: 87.79

    Rank: 5

  • Photo of Ptolemy

    Ptolemy

    ASTRONOMER

    100 - 170

    HPI: 87.51

    Rank: 6

  • Photo of Yasser Arafat

    Yasser Arafat

    POLITICIAN

    1929 - 2004

    HPI: 87.00

    Rank: 7

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    Akhenaten

    POLITICIAN

    1400 BC - 1336 BC

    HPI: 86.39

    Rank: 8

  • Photo of Hypatia

    Hypatia

    MATHEMATICIAN

    350 - 415

    HPI: 83.73

    Rank: 9

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    Anthony the Great

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    251 - 356

    HPI: 83.25

    Rank: 10

  • Photo of Origen

    Origen

    PHILOSOPHER

    185 - 254

    HPI: 82.98

    Rank: 11

  • Photo of Joshua

    Joshua

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    1355 BC - 1245 BC

    HPI: 82.94

    Rank: 12

  • Photo of Catherine of Alexandria

    Catherine of Alexandria

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    287 - 305

    HPI: 82.70

    Rank: 13

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Among POLITICIANS In Egypt

Among politicians born in Egypt, Yasser Arafat ranks 2. Before him are Cleopatra (-69). After him are Akhenaten (-1400), Hatshepsut (-1507), Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918), Anwar Sadat (1918), Hosni Mubarak (1928), Amenhotep III (-1403), Rudolf Hess (1894), Khafra (-2550), Ay (-1380), and Horemheb (-1319).

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