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Ayman al-Zawahiri

1951 - 2022

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Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (Arabic: أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهري, romanized: ʾAyman Muḥammad Rabīʿ aẓ-Ẓawāhirī; 19 June 1951 – 31 July 2022) was an Egyptian-born pan-Islamist militant and physician who served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from June 2011 until his death in July 2022. He is best known for being one of the main orchestrators of the September 11 attacks. Al-Zawahiri graduated from Cairo University with a degree in medicine and a master's degree in surgery and was a surgeon by profession. He became a leading figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an Egyptian Islamist organization, and eventually attained the rank of emir. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ayman al-Zawahiri is the 18th most popular extremist (up from 19th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 68th in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Extremist.

Ayman al-Zawahiri is most famous for being a co-founder of al-Qaeda and the current leader of the group.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ayman al-Zawahiri ranks 18 out of 283. Before him are Lee Harvey Oswald, Frederick Trump, Man in the Iron Mask, Gilles de Rais, Leon Czolgosz, and Golden State Killer. After him are Jeffrey Dahmer, Ramón Mercader, Patrizia Reggiani, Andrei Chikatilo, Mehmet Ali Ağca, and Ted Kaczynski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Ayman al-Zawahiri ranks 11. Before him are Phil Collins, Claudio Ranieri, Ilona Staller, Louis van Gaal, Chesley Sullenberger, and Anatoly Karpov. After him are Santiago Calatrava, Chris Cooper, Romina Power, Geoffrey Rush, Michelle Bachelet, and John Deacon. Among people deceased in 2022, Ayman al-Zawahiri ranks 17. Before him are Leonid Kravchuk, Ben Roy Mottelson, Francisco Gento, Luc Montagnier, Irene Papas, and Jean-Louis Trintignant. After him are Mahsa Amini, Vivienne Westwood, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Olivia Newton-John, Sidney Poitier, and Madeleine Albright.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Ayman al-Zawahiri ranks 70 out of 642. Before him are Ptolemy VI Philometor (-184), Apollonius of Rhodes (-295), Dorothy Hodgkin (1910), Saint Sarah (100), Sextus Empiricus (160), and Tiye (-1398). After him are Mary of Egypt (344), Ptolemy VIII Physcon (-182), Arsinoe III of Egypt (-246), Appian (95), Sayyid Qutb (1906), and Saint Apollonia (110).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Egypt

Among extremists born in Egypt, Ayman al-Zawahiri ranks 1. After him are Mohamed Atta (1968), Saif al-Adel (1960), Omar Abdel-Rahman (1938), and Abu Ayyub al-Masri (1968).

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