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Anwar Sadat

1918 - 1981

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Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk I in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as vice president twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. In 1978, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter, for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize. In his 11 years as president, he changed Egypt's trajectory, departing from many political and economic tenets of Nasserism, reinstituting a multi-party system, and launching the Infitah economic policy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anwar Sadat is the 305th most popular politician (down from 190th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Egypt (down from 17th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Egyptian Politician.

Anwar Sadat was the president of Egypt from 1970 to 1981. He was most famous for signing a peace treaty with Israel in 1979.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anwar Sadat ranks 305 out of 19,576. Before him are Balian of Ibelin, Rudolf Hess, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Güyük Khan, Constantine XI Palaiologos, and Ali Khamenei. After him are Philip I of Castile, Hu Jintao, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Alexander III of Russia, Park Chung-hee, and Beatrix of the Netherlands.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Anwar Sadat ranks 6. Before him are Nelson Mandela, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Ingmar Bergman, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. After him are Richard Feynman, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, Leonard Bernstein, Rita Hayworth, and Gertrude B. Elion. Among people deceased in 1981, Anwar Sadat ranks 2. Before him is Bob Marley. After him are Jacques Lacan, Albert Speer, Hans Adolf Krebs, Moshe Dayan, Bill Haley, Frederica of Hanover, Claude Auchinleck, Soong Ching-ling, Max Euwe, and Odd Hassel.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Anwar Sadat ranks 23 out of 642. Before him are Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918), Ay (-1380), Plotinus (203), Moses in Islam (-1392), Catherine of Alexandria (287), and Rudolf Hess (1894). After him are Imhotep (-2800), Naguib Mahfouz (1911), Hagar (-1800), Hero of Alexandria (10), Athanasius of Alexandria (295), and Diophantus (201).

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Among POLITICIANS In Egypt

Among politicians born in Egypt, Anwar Sadat ranks 11. Before him are Yasser Arafat (1929), Khafra (-2550), Hosni Mubarak (1928), Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918), Ay (-1380), and Rudolf Hess (1894). After him are Caesarion (-47), Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (-60), Mohamed Morsi (1951), Farouk of Egypt (1920), Menkaure (-2001), and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (1954).

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