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Ali Abdullah Saleh

1947 - 2017

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Ali Abdullah Saleh Affash (21 March 1947 – 4 December 2017) was a Yemeni military officer and politician who served as the first president of the Republic of Yemen from the Yemeni unification in 1990 until his resignation in 2012, following the Yemeni revolution. Previously, he had served as the fifth and last President of the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen), from July 1978 to 22 May 1990, after the assassination of President Ahmad al-Ghashmi. al-Ghashmi had earlier appointed Saleh as military governor in Taiz. Saleh developed deeper ties with Western powers, especially the United States, during the War on Terror. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ali Abdullah Saleh is the 1,330th most popular politician (down from 766th in 2019), the most popular biography from Yemen and the most popular Yemeni Politician.

Ali Abdullah Saleh was the president of Yemen for more than 30 years. He is most famous for his role in the Yemeni Civil War.

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Among politicians, Ali Abdullah Saleh ranks 1,330 out of 19,576. Before him are Muhammad II of Khwarazm, Robert F. Kennedy, Haman, Symon Petliura, Haakon V of Norway, and Mohamed Naguib. After him are Henry of Flanders, Kim Jong-suk, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Carol I of Romania, Nuon Chea, and Henry the Lion.

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Among people born in 1947, Ali Abdullah Saleh ranks 28. Before him are Mohammad Najibullah, Carlos Santana, Iggy Pop, Herman Van Rompuy, Glenn Close, and Robert Kiyosaki. After him are Salman Rushdie, Takeshi Kitano, Gerd Binnig, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Paco de Lucía, and France Gall. Among people deceased in 2017, Ali Abdullah Saleh ranks 16. Before him are Tom Petty, Raymond Kopa, Jalal Talabani, Jeanne Moreau, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Salvatore Riina. After him are David Rockefeller, Chuck Berry, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Manuel Noriega, Hans Georg Dehmelt, and John Hurt.

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In Yemen

Among people born in Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh ranks 1 out of 35. After him are Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (1945), Uwais al-Qarani (594), Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (1908), Mukesh Ambani (1957), Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (600), Abdullah ibn Saba' (700), Miqdad ibn Aswad (589), Malik al-Ashtar (585), Rashad al-Alimi (1954), Tawakkol Karman (1979), and Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (1869).

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Among POLITICIANS In Yemen

Among politicians born in Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh ranks 1. After him are Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (1945), Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (600), Rashad al-Alimi (1954), Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (1869), Muhammad al-Badr (1926), Hussein al-Houthi (1960), Ahmad bin Yahya (1891), Ali Nasir Muhammad (1940), Mohammed Basindawa (1935), Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas (1939), and Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (1979).

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