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Asma al-Assad

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Asma Fawaz al-Assad (Arabic: أسماء فواز الأسد; née Akhras; born 11 August 1975) is a British-born Syrian economist who served as the first lady of Syria from 2000 to 2024 as the wife of Bashar al-Assad. She became first lady when she married al-Assad on 13 December 2000, shortly after he became president. Asma Fawaz Akhras graduated from King's College London in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in computer science and French literature. She had a career in investment banking and was planning to begin an MBA at Harvard University when she married Bashar al-Assad in December 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2024). Asma al-Assad is the 3,424th most popular politician (up from 8,937th in 2024), the 827th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,790th in 2019) and the 169th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Asma al-Assad ranks 3,424 out of 19,576. Before her are Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Yevgeny Primakov, Lázaro Cárdenas, Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca, Zoran Milanović, and Alexios I of Trebizond. After her are Isabella, Countess of Gloucester, Julia Avita Mamaea, Alys of France, Countess of Vexin, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Kurt Zeitzler, and Berenice.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Asma al-Assad ranks 12. Before her are Sia, Richard Hughes, Enrique Iglesias, Kate Winslet, Bradley Cooper, and Hernán Crespo. After her are Milla Jovovich, Marion Cotillard, Charlize Theron, Charles Michel, Pedro Pascal, and Mel B.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Asma al-Assad ranks 827 out of 8,785. Before her are Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), James May (1963), Fatboy Slim (1963), Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1388), Hertha Ayrton (1854), and Colin Maclaurin (1698). After her are Alice Liddell (1852), Nicko McBrain (1952), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Louis Wain (1860), Ian McEwan (1948), and Denis Law (1940).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Asma al-Assad ranks 169. Before her are James Callaghan (1912), Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743), Ramsay MacDonald (1866), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), Mackenzie Bowell (1823), and Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1388). After her are Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850), James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (1415), Eadwig (940), Ælla of Northumbria (800), and Princess Muna al-Hussein (1941).

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