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Jalal Talabani

1933 - 2017

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Jalal Talabani (Kurdish: مام جەلال تاڵەبانی, romanized: Celal Talebanî; Arabic: جلال طالباني Jalāl Ṭālabānī; 1933 – 3 October 2017) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the president of Iraq from 2005 to 2014, as well as the president of the Governing Council of Iraq. Talabani was the founder and secretary-general of one of the main Kurdish political parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). He was a prominent member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, which was established following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Talabani was an advocate for Kurdish rights and democracy in Iraq for more than 50 years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jalal Talabani is the 1,227th most popular politician (down from 854th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Iraq (down from 28th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Iraqi Politician.

Jalal Talabani is most famous for being the president of Iraq from 2005-2014.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jalal Talabani ranks 1,227 out of 19,576. Before him are Helmut Schmidt, 5th Dalai Lama, Tiberius Claudius Nero, Amr ibn Hishām, Pepi II Neferkare, and Patrice de MacMahon. After him are Li Si, Sejo of Joseon, Baldur von Schirach, Louis V of France, Hua Guofeng, and Anthony Eden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Jalal Talabani ranks 15. Before him are Michael Caine, Lina Medina, Claudio Abbado, Francisco Gento, William Anders, and Heinrich Rohrer. After him are Tinto Brass, James Brown, H. D. Deve Gowda, Just Fontaine, Nina Simone, and Arno Allan Penzias. Among people deceased in 2017, Jalal Talabani ranks 12. Before him are Stanislav Petrov, Zygmunt Bauman, Roger Moore, Bill Paxton, Tom Petty, and Raymond Kopa. After him are Jeanne Moreau, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Salvatore Riina, Ali Abdullah Saleh, David Rockefeller, and Chuck Berry.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Jalal Talabani ranks 31 out of 384. Before him are Sennacherib (-740), Sargon II (-750), Khosrow II (570), Faisal II of Iraq (1935), Belshazzar (-600), and Ahmad Sanjar (1100). After him are Šuppiluliuma I (-1344), Eber (-2038), Antiochus I Soter (-324), Sinsharishkun (-700), Enheduanna (-2300), and Ahmad ibn Fadlan (900).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Jalal Talabani ranks 16. Before him are Al-Ma'mun (786), Alexander IV of Macedon (-323), Sennacherib (-740), Sargon II (-750), Khosrow II (570), and Faisal II of Iraq (1935). After him are Šuppiluliuma I (-1344), Antiochus I Soter (-324), Sinsharishkun (-700), Al-Mu'tasim (796), Gudea (-2200), and Abdul Latif Rashid (1944).

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