1929 - 2004
Yasser Arafat (, US also ; August 1929 – 11 November 2004) was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004 and president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yasser Arafat has received more than 8,734,606 page views. His biography is available in 113 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 112 in 2019). Yasser Arafat is the 108th most popular politician (up from 112th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Egypt and the 3rd 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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Among politicians, Yasser Arafat ranks 108 out of 15,577. Before him are Philip IV of France, Hadrian, Mary II of England, Herod the Great, Hermann Göring, and Isabella I of Castile. After him are Pepin the Short, Louis XIII of France, Philip II of Macedon, Hatshepsut, Tiberius, and Clovis I.
1268 - 1314
HPI: 80.89
Rank: 102
76 - 138
HPI: 80.89
Rank: 103
1662 - 1694
HPI: 80.89
Rank: 104
73 BC - 3 BC
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 105
1893 - 1946
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 106
1451 - 1504
HPI: 80.84
Rank: 107
1929 - 2004
HPI: 80.84
Rank: 108
715 - 768
HPI: 80.80
Rank: 109
1601 - 1643
HPI: 80.78
Rank: 110
382 BC - 336 BC
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 111
1507 BC - 1458 BC
HPI: 80.70
Rank: 112
42 BC - 37
HPI: 80.70
Rank: 113
466 - 511
HPI: 80.67
Rank: 114
Among people born in 1929, Yasser Arafat ranks 3. Before him are Grace Kelly and Anne Frank. After him are Audrey Hepburn, Martin Luther King Jr., Bud Spencer, Milan Kundera, Lev Yashin, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jürgen Habermas, Sergio Leone, and Imre Kertész. Among people deceased in 2004, Yasser Arafat ranks 2. Before him is Ronald Reagan. After him are Marlon Brando, Ray Charles, Jacques Derrida, Juliana of the Netherlands, Francis Crick, Christopher Reeve, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Françoise Sagan, Czesław Miłosz, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester.
1929 - 1982
HPI: 84.60
Rank: 1
1929 - 1945
HPI: 83.42
Rank: 2
1929 - 2004
HPI: 80.84
Rank: 3
1929 - 1993
HPI: 80.25
Rank: 4
1929 - 1968
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 5
1929 - 2016
HPI: 77.79
Rank: 6
1929 - 2023
HPI: 77.72
Rank: 7
1929 - 1990
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 8
1929 - 1994
HPI: 76.56
Rank: 9
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 10
1929 - 1989
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 11
1929 - 2016
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 12
1911 - 2004
HPI: 82.84
Rank: 1
1929 - 2004
HPI: 80.84
Rank: 2
1924 - 2004
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 3
1930 - 2004
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 4
1930 - 2004
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 5
1909 - 2004
HPI: 72.14
Rank: 6
1916 - 2004
HPI: 71.67
Rank: 7
1952 - 2004
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 8
1908 - 2004
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 9
1935 - 2004
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 10
1911 - 2004
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 11
1901 - 2004
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 12
Among people born in Egypt, Yasser Arafat ranks 9 out of 582. Before him are Tutankhamun (-1341), Ptolemy (100), Nefertiti (-1400), Akhenaten (-1400), Euclid (-350), and Hypatia (350). After him are Hatshepsut (-1507), Catherine of Alexandria (287), Joshua (-1355), Amenhotep III (-1403), Origen (185), and Anthony the Great (251).
1341 BC - 1323 BC
HPI: 86.63
Rank: 3
100 - 170
HPI: 85.61
Rank: 4
1400 BC - 1330 BC
HPI: 85.45
Rank: 5
1400 BC - 1336 BC
HPI: 84.67
Rank: 6
350 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 83.48
Rank: 7
350 - 415
HPI: 81.91
Rank: 8
1929 - 2004
HPI: 80.84
Rank: 9
1507 BC - 1458 BC
HPI: 80.70
Rank: 10
287 - 305
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 11
1355 BC - 1245 BC
HPI: 80.40
Rank: 12
1403 BC - 1350 BC
HPI: 80.31
Rank: 13
185 - 254
HPI: 80.17
Rank: 14
251 - 356
HPI: 79.25
Rank: 15
Among politicians born in Egypt, Yasser Arafat ranks 3. Before him are Cleopatra (-69) and Akhenaten (-1400). After him are Hatshepsut (-1507), Amenhotep III (-1403), Rudolf Hess (1894), Hosni Mubarak (1928), Anwar Sadat (1918), Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918), Khafra (-2550), Caesarion (-47), and Menkaure (-2001).
69 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 89.95
Rank: 1
1400 BC - 1336 BC
HPI: 84.67
Rank: 2
1929 - 2004
HPI: 80.84
Rank: 3
1507 BC - 1458 BC
HPI: 80.70
Rank: 4
1403 BC - 1350 BC
HPI: 80.31
Rank: 5
1894 - 1987
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 6
1928 - 2020
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 7
1918 - 1981
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 8
1918 - 1970
HPI: 77.38
Rank: 9
2550 BC - 2479 BC
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 10
47 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 11
2001 BC - 2503 BC
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 12