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Ziaur Rahman

1936 - 1981

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Ziaur Rahman (19 January 1936 – 30 May 1981) was a Bangladeshi military officer and politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 1977 until his assassination. He was the founder of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and served as its chairman until his assassination. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ziaur Rahman has received more than 1,555,577 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Ziaur Rahman is the 8,086th most popular politician (up from 8,381st 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

Among politicians, Ziaur Rahman ranks 8,086 out of 15,577Before 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, Berthold II, Duke of Carinthia, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Maria Aurora von Königsmarck, and José Mendes Cabeçadas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Ziaur Rahman ranks 158Before 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 71Before 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.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman ranks 11 out of 57Before 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).

Among POLITICIANS In Bangladesh

Among politicians born in Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman ranks 6Before 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).