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Benazir Bhutto

1953 - 2007

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Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. She was also the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired or co-chaired the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007. Of mixed Sindhi, Persian, and Kurdish parentage, Bhutto was born in Karachi to a politically important, wealthy aristocratic family. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Benazir Bhutto is the 2,056th most popular politician (down from 1,973rd in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 9th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Pakistani Politician.

Benazir Bhutto was the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was assassinated in 2007.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Benazir Bhutto ranks 2,056 out of 19,576. Before her are Hans Fritzsche, D. F. Malan, Álmos, Rudolf von Laban, Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen, and John II of Castile. After her are Prince Marko, Rodion Malinovsky, Antiochus I Theos of Commagene, Muhammad Shaybani, Niels, King of Denmark, and Lucullus.

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Among people born in 1953, Benazir Bhutto ranks 23. Before her are Isabelle Huppert, Richard Clayderman, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Nigel Mansell, William E. Moerner, and Manuel Pellegrini. After her are Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Teresa Teng, Kathleen Kennedy, Cyndi Lauper, Mike Oldfield, and Fatih Terim. Among people deceased in 2007, Benazir Bhutto ranks 18. Before her are Carlo Ponti, Ernst Otto Fischer, Kai Siegbahn, Maurice Béjart, Marcel Marceau, and Alan Ball Jr.. After her are Sidney Sheldon, Aden Adde, Albert Ellis, Paul Cohen, Theodore Maiman, and Ralph Asher Alpher.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto ranks 19 out of 217. Before her are Pran (1920), Bacha Khan (1890), Shah Jahan (1592), Bhagat Singh (1907), Arif Alvi (1949), and Vasubandhu (400). After her are Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), Asanga (300), Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580), Abdus Salam (1926), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), and Dev Anand (1923).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto ranks 10. Before her are Porus (-400), Nawaz Sharif (1949), Shehbaz Sharif (1951), I. K. Gujral (1919), Shah Jahan (1592), and Arif Alvi (1949). After her are Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), Yousaf Raza Gillani (1952), Aga Khan III (1877), Zafarullah Khan Jamali (1944), Asif Ali Zardari (1955), and Ranjit Singh (1780).

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