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Leila Mourad

1918 - 1995

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Leila Mourad or Layla Morad (Arabic: ليلى مراد; February 17, 1918 – November 21, 1995) was an Egyptian singer and actress, and one of the most prominent superstars in Egypt and the entire Arab world in her era. Born Lilian Zaki Ibrahim Mourad to Jewish parents of Syrian and Moroccan descent in the El Daher District in Cairo, she later changed her name to Leila Mourad as a stage name. Leila married three times and divorced three times. She died in 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leila Mourad is the 596th most popular singer (down from 449th in 2019), the 356th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 319th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Egyptian Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Leila Mourad ranks 596 out of 4,381. Before her are Lidia Ruslanova, Angela Gheorghiu, Grethe Ingmann, Michel Sardou, Line Renaud, and Kim Seok-jin. After her are Fud Leclerc, Sabah Fakhri, Ronnie Van Zant, Emmylou Harris, Justyna Steczkowska, and Mohammed Rafi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Leila Mourad ranks 122. Before her are Helmut Lent, Alfréd Wetzler, Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Bebo Valdés, George Lincoln Rockwell, and Alexander Shelepin. After her are Kevin A. Lynch, Ángel Labruna, Teresa Wright, Raimon Panikkar, Igor Ansoff, and Marie Smith Jones. Among people deceased in 1995, Leila Mourad ranks 112. Before her are Adolfo Pedernera, André Frossard, Fred West, Gisela Mauermayer, David Marshall, and Vladimír Dzurilla. After her are Dmitri Shepilov, Rudolf Peierls, Luis Regueiro, Viktoria Brezhneva, Józef Maria Bocheński, and Sergio Bertoni.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Leila Mourad ranks 356 out of 642. Before her are Djedefhor (-2600), Zein Al-Sharaf Talal (1916), Isaac Israeli ben Solomon (832), Nepherites I (-490), Takelot III (-800), and Pope Heraclas of Alexandria (180). After her are H. A. R. Gibb (1895), Al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah (1149), Merneferre Ay (-1650), Timocharis (-320), Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi (1920), and Iset (-1350).

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Among SINGERS In Egypt

Among singers born in Egypt, Leila Mourad ranks 8. Before her are Umm Kulthum (1898), Demis Roussos (1946), Georges Moustaki (1934), Claude François (1939), Mohammed Abdel Wahab (1901), and Amr Diab (1961). After her are Sayed Darwish (1892), Gohar Gasparyan (1924), Guy Béart (1930), Richard Anthony (1938), Majida El Roumi (1956), and Tefta Tashko-Koço (1910).

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