1936 - 1981
Lt. General Ziaur Rahman BU HJ (19 January 1936 – 30 May 1981), was a Bangladeshi military officer and politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 1977 to 1981. He was assassinated on 30 May 1981 in Chittagong in an army coup d'état.Rahman was a Bangladesh Forces Commander of BDF Sector 1 initially, and from June as BDF commander of BDF Sector 11 of the Bangladesh Forces and the Brigade Commander of Z Force from mid-July during the country's Independence war from Pakistan in 1971. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ziaur Rahman has received more than 1,209,943 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Ziaur Rahman is the 8,183rd most popular politician (up from 8,383rd in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Bangladesh (up from 13th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Bangladeshi Politician.
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Among politicians, Ziaur Rahman ranks 8,183 out of 15,577. Before him are Catherine I, Latin Empress, Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Malam Bacai Sanhá, Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Arpa Ke'un, and William Hamilton. After him are Prince Álmos, Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia, Berthold II, Duke of Carinthia, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, and Maria Aurora von Königsmarck.
1274 - 1307
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 8,177
1877 - 1960
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 8,178
1947 - 2012
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 8,179
1676 - 1732
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,180
1300 - 1336
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,181
1730 - 1803
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,182
1936 - 1981
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,183
1070 - 1127
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,184
1894 - 1918
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,185
1000 - 1078
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,186
1890 - 1972
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,187
1831 - 1873
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,188
1662 - 1728
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,189
Among people born in 1936, Ziaur Rahman ranks 158. Before him are Bobby Darin, Siw Malmkvist, Darlene Hard, Annette Stroyberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Glenn Murcutt. After him are Han Seung-soo, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Adem Demaçi, Amr Moussa, Volodymyr Holubnychy, and Savitri. Among people deceased in 1981, Ziaur Rahman ranks 71. Before him are Lotte Reiniger, Kirill Kondrashin, Yakov Pavlov, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Nelson Algren, and D. R. Bendre. After him are Giuseppe Pella, Ferruccio Parri, Melvyn Douglas, Manuel Urrutia Lleó, Savitri, and Helmut Gröttrup.
1936 - 1973
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 152
1936 - Present
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 153
1936 - 2021
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 154
1936 - 2005
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 155
1936 - 1989
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 156
1936 - Present
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 157
1936 - 1981
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 158
1936 - Present
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 159
1936 - Present
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 160
1936 - 2018
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 161
1936 - Present
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 162
1936 - 2021
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 163
1936 - 1981
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 164
1899 - 1981
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 65
1914 - 1981
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 66
1917 - 1981
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 67
1897 - 1981
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 68
1909 - 1981
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 69
1896 - 1981
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 70
1936 - 1981
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 71
1902 - 1981
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 72
1890 - 1981
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 73
1901 - 1981
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 74
1901 - 1981
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 75
1936 - 1981
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 76
1916 - 1981
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 77
Among people born in Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman ranks 11 out of 57. Before him are Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858), Sheikh Hasina (1947), William Beveridge (1879), Chandragupta I (250), Sri Chinmoy (1931), and Zillur Rahman (1929). After him are Meghnad Saha (1893), Begum Rokeya (1880), Anandamayi Ma (1896), Mahasweta Devi (1926), Mir Jafar (1691), and Iajuddin Ahmed (1931).
1858 - 1937
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 5
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 6
1879 - 1963
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 7
250 - 335
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 8
1931 - 2007
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 9
1929 - 2013
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 10
1936 - 1981
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 11
1893 - 1956
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 12
1880 - 1932
HPI: 53.29
Rank: 13
1896 - 1982
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 14
1926 - 2016
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 15
1691 - 1765
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 16
1931 - 2012
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 17
Among politicians born in Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman ranks 6. Before him are Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920), Abdul Hamid (1944), Sheikh Hasina (1947), Chandragupta I (250), and Zillur Rahman (1929). After him are Mir Jafar (1691), Iajuddin Ahmed (1931), Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894), Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad (1918), A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873), and Shahabuddin Ahmed (1930).
1920 - 1975
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 1
1944 - Present
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 2
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 3
250 - 335
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 4
1929 - 2013
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 5
1936 - 1981
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 6
1691 - 1765
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 7
1931 - 2012
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 8
1894 - 1964
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 9
1918 - 1996
HPI: 50.37
Rank: 10
1873 - 1962
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 11
1930 - Present
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 12