MILITARY PERSONNEL

Mohamed Oufkir

1920 - 1972

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General Mohamed Oufkir (Arabic: محمد أوفقير, romanized: Muḥammad Ūfqīr‎; 16 August 1920 − 16 August 1972) was a Moroccan senior military officer who held many important governmental posts like the minister of interior and minister of defense. Throughout the 60s, he rose to become the regime's strongman having a close relationship with Hassan II of Morocco and was partly responsible for the suppression of political opposition and riots. It is believed that he was involved in the Ben Barka affair and that he was assassinated for his alleged role in the failed 1972 Moroccan coup attempt. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mohamed Oufkir is the 1,129th most popular military personnel (down from 1,030th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Morocco (down from 57th in 2019) and the most popular Moroccan Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mohamed Oufkir ranks 1,129 out of 2,058. Before him are Nicholas, Count of Salm, Andrei Shkuro, Erwin Jaenecke, August Karl von Goeben, Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, and Chelsea Manning. After him are Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Carl Brashear, Kenneth Anderson, Blas de Lezo, Li Ling, and Ivan Sidorenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Mohamed Oufkir ranks 164. Before him are Hannie Schaft, Mohammed Dib, Schubert Gambetta, Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi, Cornelius Ryan, and Osvaldo Cavandoli. After him are Lazar Mojsov, Eduardo Mondlane, Jorge Pacheco Areco, Jean Carmet, Walter Krupinski, and Giuseppe Colombo. Among people deceased in 1972, Mohamed Oufkir ranks 100. Before him are C. W. Ceram, Ernst von Salomon, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Louise Arner Boyd, Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Vladimir Durković. After him are Violette Leduc, Frank Knight, Edward Calvin Kendall, Ángel Romano, Jessie Royce Landis, and Nikolay Krylov.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Mohamed Oufkir ranks 60 out of 264. Before him are Driss Jettou (1945), Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq (1212), Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi (1256), Mohammed Ben Aarafa (1886), Abdallah ibn Yasin (null), and Saïd Aouita (1959). After him are Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco (1978), Samira Said (1958), Abderrahmane Youssoufi (1924), Mahieddine Khalef (1944), Abdellatif Filali (1928), and Abdelilah Benkirane (1954).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Morocco

Among military personnels born in Morocco, Mohamed Oufkir ranks 1. After him are Luke McCormack (null).

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