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Abdullah al-Sallal

1917 - 1994

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Abdullah Yahya al-Sallal (Arabic: عبد الله يحيى السلال, romanized: ʿAbd Allāh Yaḥyā as-Sallāl; 9 January 1917 – 5 March 1994) was a Yemeni military officer who was the leader of the North Yemeni Revolution of 1962 and served as the first President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 27 September 1962 until his removal on 5 November 1967. It was his government that abolished slavery in Yemen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abdullah al-Sallal is the 14,459th most popular politician (down from 11,746th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Yemen (down from 21st in 2019) and the 14th most popular Yemeni Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abdullah al-Sallal ranks 14,459 out of 19,576Before him are Kono Yasui, Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer, Michael Ogio, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, and Epeli Nailatikau. After him are Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Nabonassar, Erich Mende, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, José de Amézola y Aspizúa, and Wojciech Fibak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Abdullah al-Sallal ranks 240Before him are Jane Bowles, Henry Carlsson, Noboru Terada, Li Rui, Dmitry Polyansky, and Helen Suzman. After him are Babiker Awadalla, Fyodor Khitruk, Rudolf Gnägi, John Berry, Odd Lundberg, and Kamal Ranadive. Among people deceased in 1994, Abdullah al-Sallal ranks 231Before him are Nikolai Kryuchkov, Ladislav Mňačko, Gozo Shioda, Devika Rani, Bruno Pezzey, and Luis Vargas Peña. After him are Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, Charlotte Auerbach, David Dunlap, Enrico Maria Salerno, William Wilson Morgan, and Ladislav Fuks.

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In Yemen

Among people born in Yemen, Abdullah al-Sallal ranks 25 out of 35Before him are Mohammed Basindawa (1935), Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas (1939), Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (1979), Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani (893), Eddie Izzard (1962), and Ibrahim al-Hamdi (1943). After him are Ahmad al-Ghashmi (1935), Ali Muhammad Mujawar (1953), Abdul Qadir Bajamal (1946), Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher (1952), Khadija al-Salami (1966), and Mohammed al-Houthi (1979).

Among POLITICIANS In Yemen

Among politicians born in Yemen, Abdullah al-Sallal ranks 14Before him are Ahmad bin Yahya (1891), Ali Nasir Muhammad (1940), Mohammed Basindawa (1935), Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas (1939), Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (1979), and Ibrahim al-Hamdi (1943). After him are Ahmad al-Ghashmi (1935), Ali Muhammad Mujawar (1953), Abdul Qadir Bajamal (1946), Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher (1952), Mohammed al-Houthi (1979), and Saleh Ali al-Sammad (1979).