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Muhammad Ali of Egypt

1769 - 1849

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Muhammad Ali or Mehmed Ali (4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849) was the Ottoman Albanian viceroy and governor who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule in 1840, he controlled Egypt, Sudan, Hejaz, the Levant, Crete and parts of Greece and transformed Cairo from a mere Ottoman provincial capital to the center of an expansive empire. Born in a village in Albania, when he was young he moved with his family to Kavala in the Rumelia Eyalet, where his father, an Albanian tobacco and shipping merchant, served as an Ottoman commander of a small unit in the city. Ali was a military commander in an Albanian Ottoman force sent to recover Egypt from French occupation following Napoleon's withdrawal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Muhammad Ali of Egypt is the 265th most popular politician (down from 243rd in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Greece (up from 33rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Greek Politician.

Muhammad Ali of Egypt is most famous for being the first Arab to win an Olympic gold medal.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Muhammad Ali of Egypt ranks 265 out of 19,576. Before him are Septimius Severus, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Anastasius I Dicorus, Saparmurat Niyazov, Golda Meir, and Æthelwulf, King of Wessex. After him are Mehmed IV, Enver Hoxha, Konrad Adenauer, Frederick IX of Denmark, Paul von Hindenburg, and Mehmed I.

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Among people born in 1769, Muhammad Ali of Egypt ranks 3. Before him are Napoleon, and Alexander von Humboldt. After him are Georges Cuvier, Michel Ney, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Jean Lannes, Ivan Krylov, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, André-Jacques Garnerin, and Ivan Kotliarevsky. Among people deceased in 1849, Muhammad Ali of Egypt ranks 5. Before him are Frédéric Chopin, Edgar Allan Poe, James K. Polk, and Hokusai. After him are Johann Strauss I, Anne Brontë, William II of the Netherlands, Sándor Petőfi, France Prešeren, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, and Charles Albert of Sardinia.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Muhammad Ali of Egypt ranks 31 out of 1,024. Before him are Sappho (-630), Phidias (-490), Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921), Draco (-650), Spartacus (-109), and Xenophon (-430). After him are Demosthenes (-384), Hayreddin Barbarossa (1478), Nurbanu Sultan (1525), Gorgias (-483), Themistocles (-524), and Ptolemy I Soter (-367).

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Among POLITICIANS In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Muhammad Ali of Egypt ranks 7. Before him are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881), Solon (-638), Pericles (-494), Bayezid II (1447), Philip II of Macedon (-382), and Kösem Sultan (1590). After him are Demosthenes (-384), Cleisthenes (-565), Lycurgus of Sparta (-800), Leonidas I (-540), Peisistratos (-600), and Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha (1493).

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