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Yusof Ishak

1910 - 1970

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Yusof bin Ishak ( YUUSS-off bin ISS-hahk; 12 August 1910 – 23 November 1970) was a Singaporean journalist and senior civil servant who served as the first president of Singapore between 1965 and 1970. His portrait appears on the Singapore Portrait Series currency notes introduced in 1999. Prior to his appointment as Singapore's head of state, Yusof was a well-known journalist who co-founded Utusan Melayu, which was in circulation until 9 October 2019. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yusof Ishak has received more than 938,729 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Yusof Ishak is the 7,630th most popular politician (up from 7,690th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Malaysia (down from 13th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Malaysian Politician.

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  • 940k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yusof Ishak ranks 7,630 out of 19,576. Before him are Luis Alberto Lacalle, Magdalena Andersson, Gustav Freytag, James Baker, William, Prince of Hohenzollern, and William II of Dampierre. After him are Aripert II, Chaim Rumkowski, Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, Wu Yi of Shang, Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi, and Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Yusof Ishak ranks 97. Before him are J. Allen Hynek, Carmine Coppola, Viktors Arājs, Joan Bennett, Sylvester Stadler, and Paul Bowles. After him are Julien Gracq, Enrique Guaita, Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, Ngô Đình Nhu, Nouhak Phoumsavanh, and Maria Cebotari. Among people deceased in 1970, Yusof Ishak ranks 87. Before him are Lucien Goldmann, Eiji Tsuburaya, George Szell, Friedrich Kellner, Toshio Iwatani, and Vasyl Sukhomlynsky. After him are Maria Yudina, Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Erle Stanley Gardner, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, and Franz Schlegelberger.

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In Malaysia

Among people born in Malaysia, Yusof Ishak ranks 17 out of 90. Before him are Iskandar of Johor (1932), Hussein Onn (1922), Muhyiddin Yassin (1947), Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan (1895), Ahmad Shah of Pahang (1930), and P. Ramlee (1929). After him are Jimmy Choo (1948), Sirajuddin of Perlis (1943), James Wan (1977), Abdullah Abdul Kadir (1796), Azlan Shah of Perak (1928), and Hisamuddin of Selangor (1898).

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Among POLITICIANS In Malaysia

Among politicians born in Malaysia, Yusof Ishak ranks 14. Before him are Najib Razak (1953), Iskandar of Johor (1932), Hussein Onn (1922), Muhyiddin Yassin (1947), Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan (1895), and Ahmad Shah of Pahang (1930). After him are Sirajuddin of Perlis (1943), Azlan Shah of Perak (1928), Hisamuddin of Selangor (1898), Muhammad V of Kelantan (1969), Salahuddin of Selangor (1926), and Ismail Sabri Yaakob (1960).

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