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Iskander Mirza

1899 - 1969

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Iskander Ali Mirza (13 November 1899 – 13 November 1969) was a Pakistani politician and military general who served as the fourth and last governor-general of Pakistan from 1955 to 1956, and then as the first president of Pakistan from 1956 to 1958. Mirza was educated at the University of Bombay before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. After military service in the British Indian Army, he joined the Indian Political Service and spent the most of his career as a political agent in the Western region of British India until elevated as joint secretary at the Ministry of Defence in 1946. Following the independence of Pakistan in 1947 as a result of the Partition of British India, Mirza was appointed as the first Defence Secretary by prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan, only to oversee the military efforts in the first war with India in 1947, followed by the failed secession in Balochistan in 1948. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Iskander Mirza is the 1,409th most popular politician (up from 10,729th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from India (up from 390th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Iskander Mirza ranks 1,409 out of 19,576. Before him are Andronikos I Komnenos, Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah, Cleopatra IV of Egypt, 2nd Dalai Lama, Sinsharishkun, and Frederick III of Denmark. After him are Alyattes of Lydia, William II of the Netherlands, John V Palaiologos, Wanli Emperor, Onan, and Ahaz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Iskander Mirza ranks 18. Before him are Humphrey Bogart, Macfarlane Burnet, Francis Poulenc, Paul-Henri Spaak, László Bíró, and Albert Claude. After him are Fred Astaire, Paul Hermann Müller, Erich Kästner, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Béla Guttmann, and Georg von Békésy. Among people deceased in 1969, Iskander Mirza ranks 22. Before him are Allen Dulles, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Liu Shaoqi, Jan Palach, Rocky Marciano, and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. After him are Brian Jones, Morihei Ueshiba, Jack Kerouac, Robert Taylor, Vesto Slipher, and Dominique Pire.

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In India

Among people born in India, Iskander Mirza ranks 63 out of 1,861. Before him are Salman Rushdie (1947), Alauddin Khalji (1266), Ronald Ross (1857), C. V. Raman (1888), P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921), and Salman Khan (1965). After him are Ram Narayan (1927), Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), Aurangzeb (1618), Ghalib (1797), Bhāskara II (1114), and Mariam-uz-Zamani (1542).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Iskander Mirza ranks 25. Before him are Hyder Ali (1720), Sariputta (-568), H. D. Deve Gowda (1933), Ajatashatru (-500), Alauddin Khalji (1266), and P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921). After him are Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), Aurangzeb (1618), Akbar II (1760), Ibrahim Lodi (1450), Dara Shukoh (1615), and Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931).

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