MILITARY PERSONNEL

Hossein Salami

1960 - 2025

Hossein Salami

Hossein Salami (Persian: حسین سلامی;‎ 1960 – 13 June 2025) was an Iranian military officer who served as the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from 2019 until 2025 when he was killed by an Israeli airstrike during the Iran–Israel war. Salami joined the IRGC during the Iran–Iraq War in 1980, when he was a college student. He rose through the ranks, becoming deputy commander. On 21 April 2019, the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, appointed him as the new Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC, replacing major general Mohammad Ali Jafari. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hossein Salami is the 568th most popular military personnel (up from 1,385th in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Iran (up from 299th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Iranian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hossein Salami ranks 568 out of 2,058. Before him are Xu Da, Ivan Yakubovsky, Kirill Moskalenko, Lian Po, Creighton Abrams, and Mikhail Alekseyev. After him are Sergey Sokolov, Milunka Savić, Georges Picquart, Saburō Sakai, Filipp Golikov, and Bo'orchu.

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Ivan Yakubovsky
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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Hossein Salami ranks 62. Before him are Anne Parillaud, Nena, Khaled, Kristin Scott Thomas, Michael Nyqvist, and Fridolin Ambongo Besungu. After him are Igor Belanov, Sarah Brightman, James Spader, John Galliano, Gjorge Ivanov, and Željko Obradović. Among people deceased in 2025, Hossein Salami ranks 64. Before him are Joan Plowright, Akinori Nakayama, Dag Solstad, James Foley, Stanley Fischer, and Friðrik Ólafsson. After him are Zurab Tsereteli, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Nino Benvenuti, Souleymane Cissé, Vlastimil Hort, and Greg Bell.

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Anne Parillaud
ACTOR
1960 - Present
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 56
Nena
SINGER
1960 - Present
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 57
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MUSICIAN
1960 - Present
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 58
Kristin Scott Thomas
ACTOR
1960 - Present
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 59
Michael Nyqvist
ACTOR
1960 - 2017
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 60
Fridolin Ambongo Besungu
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1960 - Present
HPI: 65.99
Rank: 61
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MILITARY PERSONNEL
1960 - 2025
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 62
Igor Belanov
SOCCER PLAYER
1960 - Present
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 63
Sarah Brightman
SINGER
1960 - Present
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 64
James Spader
ACTOR
1960 - Present
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 65
John Galliano
FASHION DESIGNER
1960 - Present
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 66
Gjorge Ivanov
POLITICIAN
1960 - Present
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 67
Željko Obradović
COACH
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HPI: 64.99
Rank: 68