1929 - 2004
Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini ( ARR-ə-fat, also US: AR-ə-FAHT; Arabic: محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني; 4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات, romanized: Yāsir ʿArafāt) or by his kunya Abu Ammar (Arabic: أبو عمار, romanized: ʾAbū ʿAmmār), 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. Ideologically an Arab nationalist, he was a founding member of the Fatah political party, which he led from 1959 until 2004. Arafat was born to Palestinian parents in Cairo, Egypt, where he spent most of his youth and studied at the University of King Fuad I. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yasser Arafat has received more than 4,094,903 page views. His biography is available in 112 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 109 in 2019). Yasser Arafat is the 112th most popular politician (down from 93rd in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Egypt and the 4th most popular Egyptian Politician.
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Among politicians, Yasser Arafat ranks 112 out of 15,710. Before him are Xerxes I, Claudius, George Washington, Isabella I of Castile, Pepin the Short, and Murad III. After him are Mark Antony, Kim Jong-il, Uthman, Harald Fairhair, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and Angela Merkel.
519 BC - 475 BC
HPI: 85.31
Rank: 106
10 BC - 54
HPI: 85.30
Rank: 107
1732 - 1799
HPI: 85.21
Rank: 108
1451 - 1504
HPI: 85.19
Rank: 109
715 - 768
HPI: 85.16
Rank: 110
1546 - 1595
HPI: 85.12
Rank: 111
1929 - 2004
HPI: 85.11
Rank: 112
83 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 85.10
Rank: 113
1941 - 2011
HPI: 85.08
Rank: 114
574 - 656
HPI: 84.97
Rank: 115
850 - 933
HPI: 84.92
Rank: 116
115 BC - 53 BC
HPI: 84.86
Rank: 117
1954 - Present
HPI: 84.82
Rank: 118
Among people born in 1929, Yasser Arafat ranks 3. Before him are Anne Frank and Audrey Hepburn. After him are Martin Luther King Jr., Milan Kundera, Bud Spencer, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jürgen Habermas, Sergio Leone, Max von Sydow, Lev Yashin, and Grace Kelly. Among people deceased in 2004, Yasser Arafat ranks 3. Before him are Ronald Reagan and Marlon Brando. After him are Jacques Derrida, Ray Charles, Juliana of the Netherlands, Francis Crick, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Ustinov, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Czesław Miłosz, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester.
1929 - 1945
HPI: 86.37
Rank: 1
1929 - 1993
HPI: 85.15
Rank: 2
1929 - 2004
HPI: 85.11
Rank: 3
1929 - 1968
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 4
1929 - Present
HPI: 83.65
Rank: 5
1929 - 2016
HPI: 83.05
Rank: 6
1929 - 1994
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 7
1929 - Present
HPI: 81.94
Rank: 8
1929 - 1989
HPI: 81.54
Rank: 9
1929 - 2020
HPI: 80.64
Rank: 10
1929 - 1990
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 11
1929 - 1982
HPI: 80.36
Rank: 12
1911 - 2004
HPI: 86.80
Rank: 1
1924 - 2004
HPI: 85.16
Rank: 2
1929 - 2004
HPI: 85.11
Rank: 3
1930 - 2004
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 4
1930 - 2004
HPI: 79.56
Rank: 5
1909 - 2004
HPI: 79.00
Rank: 6
1916 - 2004
HPI: 78.54
Rank: 7
1908 - 2004
HPI: 77.62
Rank: 8
1921 - 2004
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 9
1926 - 2004
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 10
1911 - 2004
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 11
1901 - 2004
HPI: 75.55
Rank: 12
Among people born in Egypt, Yasser Arafat ranks 9 out of 520. Before him are Nefertiti (-1400), Ptolemy (100), Akhenaten (-1400), Euclid (-350), Hypatia (350), and Cleopatra (-69). After him are Hatshepsut (-1507), Joshua (-1355), Origen (185), Amenhotep III (-1403), Imhotep (-2800), and Hosni Mubarak (1928).
1400 BC - 1330 BC
HPI: 88.44
Rank: 3
100 - 170
HPI: 88.23
Rank: 4
1400 BC - 1336 BC
HPI: 87.37
Rank: 5
350 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 87.03
Rank: 6
350 - 415
HPI: 85.49
Rank: 7
69 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 85.46
Rank: 8
1929 - 2004
HPI: 85.11
Rank: 9
1507 BC - 1458 BC
HPI: 84.54
Rank: 10
1355 BC - 1245 BC
HPI: 84.53
Rank: 11
185 - 254
HPI: 84.50
Rank: 12
1403 BC - 1350 BC
HPI: 84.28
Rank: 13
2800 BC - 2700 BC
HPI: 84.00
Rank: 14
1928 - 2020
HPI: 83.95
Rank: 15
Among politicians born in Egypt, Yasser Arafat ranks 4. Before him are Tutankhamun (-1341), Akhenaten (-1400), and Cleopatra (-69). After him are Hatshepsut (-1507), Amenhotep III (-1403), Hosni Mubarak (1928), Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918), Anwar Sadat (1918), Rudolf Hess (1894), Khafra (-2550), and Seti I (-1323).
1341 BC - 1323 BC
HPI: 89.49
Rank: 1
1400 BC - 1336 BC
HPI: 87.37
Rank: 2
69 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 85.46
Rank: 3
1929 - 2004
HPI: 85.11
Rank: 4
1507 BC - 1458 BC
HPI: 84.54
Rank: 5
1403 BC - 1350 BC
HPI: 84.28
Rank: 6
1928 - 2020
HPI: 83.95
Rank: 7
1918 - 1970
HPI: 83.26
Rank: 8
1918 - 1981
HPI: 82.94
Rank: 9
1894 - 1987
HPI: 82.81
Rank: 10
2550 BC - 2479 BC
HPI: 81.68
Rank: 11
1323 BC - 1279 BC
HPI: 81.05
Rank: 12