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Akbar

1542 - 1605

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Akbar (Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar, (1542-10-15)15 October 1542 – (1605-10-27)27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expand and consolidate Mughal domains in the Indian subcontinent. He is generally considered one of the greatest emperors in Indian history and led a successful campaign to unify the various kingdoms of Hindūstān or India proper. Akbar gradually enlarged the Mughal Empire to include much of the Indian subcontinent through Mughal military, political, cultural, and economic dominance. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Akbar is the 11th most popular politician (up from 156th in 2019), the most popular biography from Pakistan and the most popular Pakistani Politician.

Akbar is most famous for uniting the Indian subcontinent and for his tolerance of other religions.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Akbar ranks 11 out of 19,576. Before him are Adolf Hitler, Jimmy Carter, Julius Caesar, Thomas Jefferson, Louis XIV of France, and Joseph Stalin. After him are Augustus, Suleiman the Magnificent, Indira Gandhi, Vladimir Lenin, Saladin, and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1542, Akbar ranks 1. After him are Mary, Queen of Scots, Tokugawa Ieyasu, John of the Cross, Hattori Hanzō, Mariam-uz-Zamani, Robert Bellarmine, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, Jan Zamoyski, Isabella de' Medici, and Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona. Among people deceased in 1605, Akbar ranks 1. After him are Pope Leo XI, Pope Clement VIII, Boris Godunov, Handan Sultan, John Davis, Feodor II of Russia, Jean Nicot, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Theodore Beza, and Naresuan.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Akbar ranks 1 out of 217. After him are Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Guru Nanak (1469), Manmohan Singh (1932), Pāṇini (-500), Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Porus (-400), Nawaz Sharif (1949), Shehbaz Sharif (1951), Chanakya (-375), I. K. Gujral (1919), and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Akbar ranks 1. After him are Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Manmohan Singh (1932), Porus (-400), Nawaz Sharif (1949), Shehbaz Sharif (1951), I. K. Gujral (1919), Shah Jahan (1592), Arif Alvi (1949), Benazir Bhutto (1953), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), and Yousaf Raza Gillani (1952).

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