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Haile Selassie

1892 - 1975

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Haile Selassie I (born Tafari Makonnen or Lij Tafari; 23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as the Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (Enderase) under Empress Zewditu between 1916 and 1930. Widely considered to be a defining figure in modern Ethiopian history, he is accorded divine importance in Rastafari, an Abrahamic religion that emerged in the 1930s. A few years before he began his reign over the Ethiopian Empire, Selassie defeated Ethiopian army commander Ras Gugsa Welle Bitul, nephew of Empress Taytu Betul, at the Battle of Anchem. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Haile Selassie is the 85th most popular politician (up from 773rd in 2019), the most popular biography from Ethiopia (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Ethiopian Politician.

Haile Selassie is most famous for being the emperor of Ethiopia and leading his country to independence from Italy.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Haile Selassie ranks 85 out of 19,576. Before him are Louis XV of France, William IV of the United Kingdom, Edward IV of England, Cyrus the Great, Peter the Great, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. After him are Hammurabi, Ho Chi Minh, Ögedei Khan, Hannibal, Solon, and George IV of the United Kingdom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Haile Selassie ranks 2. Before him is J. R. R. Tolkien. After him are Josip Broz Tito, Francisco Franco, Edward Victor Appleton, Louis de Broglie, Mary Pickford, Ivo Andrić, Walter Benjamin, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Pearl S. Buck, and Manfred von Richthofen. Among people deceased in 1975, Haile Selassie ranks 1. After him are Chiang Kai-shek, Francisco Franco, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Ivo Andrić, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Umm Kulthum, Aristotle Onassis, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Robert Robinson, and Otto Skorzeny.

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In Ethiopia

Among people born in Ethiopia, Haile Selassie ranks 1 out of 105. After him are Menelik II (1844), Zewditu (1876), Abebe Bikila (1932), Sahle-Work Zewde (1950), Menelik I (-954), Yohannes IV (1837), Abraha (600), Tewodros II (1818), Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937), Ezana of Axum (325), and Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia (1895).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ethiopia

Among politicians born in Ethiopia, Haile Selassie ranks 1. After him are Menelik II (1844), Zewditu (1876), Sahle-Work Zewde (1950), Menelik I (-954), Yohannes IV (1837), Tewodros II (1818), Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937), Ezana of Axum (325), Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia (1895), Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506), and Abiy Ahmed (1976).

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