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Ziaur Rahman

1936 - 1981

Ziaur Rahman

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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1.2M
Page Views (PV)
54.45
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
36
Languages Editions (L)
2.24
Effective Languages (L*)
4.50
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Among POLITICIANS

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.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

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Catherine I, Latin Empress
1274 - 1307
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 8,177
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
1877 - 1960
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 8,178
Malam Bacai Sanhá
1947 - 2012
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 8,179
Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
1676 - 1732
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,180
Arpa Ke'un
1300 - 1336
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,181
William Hamilton
1730 - 1803
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,182
Ziaur Rahman
1936 - 1981
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,183
Prince Álmos
1070 - 1127
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,184
Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia
1894 - 1918
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,185
Berthold II, Duke of Carinthia
1000 - 1078
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,186
Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen
1890 - 1972
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,187
Prince August, Duke of Dalarna
1831 - 1873
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,188
Maria Aurora von Königsmarck
1662 - 1728
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 8,189

Contemporaries

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.

Others Born in 1936

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Bobby Darin
1936 - 1973
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 152
Siw Malmkvist
1936 - Present
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 153
Darlene Hard
1936 - 2021
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 154
Annette Stroyberg
1936 - 2005
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 155
Abbie Hoffman
1936 - 1989
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 156
Glenn Murcutt
1936 - Present
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 157
Ziaur Rahman
1936 - 1981
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 158
Han Seung-soo
1936 - Present
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 159
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
1936 - Present
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 160
Adem Demaçi
1936 - 2018
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 161
Amr Moussa
1936 - Present
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 162
Volodymyr Holubnychy
1936 - 2021
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 163
Savitri
1936 - 1981
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 164