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Malek Jahan Khanom

1805 - 1873

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Malek Jahan Khanom (Persian: ملک‌جهان خانم; 26 February 1805 – 2 April 1873) was one of the wives of Mohammad Shah Qajar and the mother of Naser al-Din Shah. She was the de facto regent of Iran for one month, from 5 September until 5 October in 1848, between the death of her husband and the accession of her son. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Malek Jahan Khanom is the 11,716th most popular politician (down from 10,587th in 2024), the 293rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 276th in 2019) and the 145th most popular Iranian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Malek Jahan Khanom ranks 11,717 out of 19,576Before her are Wu Bangguo, Ivor Richard, Ithobaal I, Franz Blücher, Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, and Mart Laar. After her are Dragoljub Ojdanić, Elvira Nabiullina, León Febres Cordero, Jacques Lauriston, and Yahya al-Mu'tasim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Malek Jahan Khanom ranks 43Before her are Prosper Guéranger, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Gabriel Bibron, John Lloyd Stephens, Frederick Denison Maurice, and Johann Friedrich Klotzsch. After her are Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, Johann Karl Rodbertus, Anton von Schmerling, Johann von Lamont, Esteban Echeverría, and Georg Gottfried Gervinus. Among people deceased in 1873, Malek Jahan Khanom ranks 45Before her are Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, Auguste von Harrach, Ferdinand David, Hermann Hankel, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, and Caterina Scarpellini. After her are Bénédict Morel, Spyridon Trikoupis, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Johann Jakob Kaup, Louis Le Chatelier, and Auguste Couder.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Malek Jahan Khanom ranks 293 out of 631Before her are Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (1931), Abolqasem Lahouti (1887), Ali-Reza Pahlavi (1966), Al-Nayrizi (865), Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200), and Majid Majidi (1959). After her are Sohrab Sepehri (1928), Ali Akbar Velayati (1945), Lady Adela (1847), Mohammad Reza Aref (1951), Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar (935), and Mohammad Ali Jafari (1957).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Malek Jahan Khanom ranks 145Before her are Jafar Khan (1800), Mehdi Karroubi (1937), Mostafa Chamran (1932), Imad al-Dawla (892), Ahmad Qavam (1876), and Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (1931). After her are Ali Akbar Velayati (1945), Lady Adela (1847), Mohammad Reza Aref (1951), Mohammad Javad Zarif (1960), Mojtaba Khamenei (1969), and Jamshid Amouzegar (1923).