1936 - 2019
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Arabic: زين العابدين بن علي, romanized: Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn bin ʿAlī, Tunisian Arabic: Zīn il-ʿĀbdīn bin ʿAlī; 3 September 1936 – 19 September 2019), commonly known as Ben Ali (بن علي) or Ezzine (الزين), was a Tunisian politician who served as the second president of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011. In that year, during the Tunisian revolution, he was overthrown and fled to Saudi Arabia. Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has received more than 1,634,729 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is the 1,120th most popular politician (down from 738th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Tunisia (down from 8th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Tunisian Politician.
Zine el abidine ben ali is most famous for being the president of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011.
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Among politicians, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ranks 1,120 out of 15,577. Before him are Ilham Aliyev, Wang Mang, Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, Idris of Libya, Albert II of Germany, and William II of the Netherlands. After him are Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Ahmed Ben Bella, Valentinian II, Safiyya bint Huyayy, and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.
1961 - Present
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 1,114
45 BC - 23
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 1,115
1416 - 1469
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 1,116
1889 - 1983
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 1,117
1397 - 1439
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 1,118
1792 - 1849
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 1,119
1936 - 2019
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 1,120
1549 - 1580
HPI: 68.78
Rank: 1,121
1882 - 1967
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 1,122
1916 - 2012
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 1,123
371 - 392
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 1,124
610 - 670
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 1,125
1897 - 1918
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 1,126
Among people born in 1936, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ranks 16. Before him are Ken Loach, Andrei Chikatilo, Valery Legasov, Mikhail Tal, John McCain, and Barry Barish. After him are Robert Woodrow Wilson, David Carradine, Barack Obama Sr., F. W. de Klerk, Harald zur Hausen, and Richard Bach. Among people deceased in 2019, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ranks 8. Before him are Karl Lagerfeld, Jacques Chirac, Niki Lauda, Robert Mugabe, Rutger Hauer, and Bruno Ganz. After him are Robert Forster, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Mohamed Morsi, Agnès Varda, Alexei Leonov, and Anna Karina.
1936 - Present
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 10
1936 - 1994
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 11
1936 - 1988
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 12
1936 - 1992
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 13
1936 - 2018
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 14
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 15
1936 - 2019
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 16
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 17
1936 - 2009
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 18
1936 - 1982
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 19
1936 - 2021
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 20
1936 - 2023
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 21
1936 - Present
HPI: 67.20
Rank: 22
1933 - 2019
HPI: 77.15
Rank: 2
1932 - 2019
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 3
1949 - 2019
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 4
1924 - 2019
HPI: 71.72
Rank: 5
1944 - 2019
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 6
1941 - 2019
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 7
1936 - 2019
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 8
1941 - 2019
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 9
1971 - 2019
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 10
1951 - 2019
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 11
1928 - 2019
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 12
1934 - 2019
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 13
1940 - 2019
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 14
Among people born in Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ranks 9 out of 179. Before him are Claudia Cardinale (1938), Tertullian (155), Terence (-185), Cyprian (200), Hamilcar Barca (-275), and Habib Bourguiba (1903). After him are Hasdrubal Barca (-300), Masinissa (-238), Hanno the Navigator (-633), Mago Barca (-243), Clodius Albinus (150), and Fatima al-Fihri (800).
1938 - Present
HPI: 75.95
Rank: 3
155 - 220
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 4
185 BC - 159 BC
HPI: 72.66
Rank: 5
200 - 258
HPI: 72.56
Rank: 6
275 BC - 228 BC
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 7
1903 - 2000
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 8
1936 - 2019
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 9
300 BC - 221 BC
HPI: 68.40
Rank: 10
238 BC - 148 BC
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 11
633 BC - 530 BC
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 12
243 BC - 203 BC
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 13
150 - 197
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 14
800 - 880
HPI: 65.23
Rank: 15
Among politicians born in Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ranks 3. Before him are Hannibal (-183) and Habib Bourguiba (1903). After him are Masinissa (-238), Mago Barca (-243), Clodius Albinus (150), Aemilianus (207), Beji Caid Essebsi (1926), Gunthamund (450), Hasdrubal the Fair (-270), Gordian II (190), and Sophonisba (-300).
183 BC - 183 BC
HPI: 86.56
Rank: 1
1903 - 2000
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 2
1936 - 2019
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 3
238 BC - 148 BC
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 4
243 BC - 203 BC
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 5
150 - 197
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 6
207 - 253
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 7
1926 - 2019
HPI: 63.78
Rank: 8
450 - 477
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 9
270 BC - 221 BC
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 10
190 - 238
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 11
300 BC - 203 BC
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 12