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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

1881 - 1938

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (c. 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrializing nation. Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is the 17th most popular politician (down from 15th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Greece and the most popular Greek Politician.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the founder of the Republic of Turkey. He is most famous for his role in the Turkish War of Independence and his leadership in the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ranks 17 out of 19,576. Before him are Akbar, Augustus, Suleiman the Magnificent, Indira Gandhi, Vladimir Lenin, and Saladin. After him are Kublai Khan, Qin Shi Huang, George VI, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Louis XVI of France, and Andrew Jackson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ranks 2. Before him is Pablo Picasso. After him are Pope John XXIII, Alexander Fleming, Stefan Zweig, Béla Bartók, Alexander Kerensky, Roger Martin du Gard, Lu Xun, Cecil B. DeMille, Anna Pavlova, and Enver Pasha. Among people deceased in 1938, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ranks 1. After him are Muhammad Iqbal, Edmund Husserl, Maud of Wales, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Karel Čapek, Konstantin Stanislavski, Marie of Romania, Georges Méliès, Mary Mallon, Faustina Kowalska, and Nikolai Bukharin.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ranks 7 out of 1,024. Before him are Aristotle (-384), Plato (-427), Alexander the Great (-356), Homer (-800), Socrates (-470), and Pythagoras (-570). After him are Hippocrates (-460), Sophocles (-497), Democritus (-460), Epicurus (-341), Solon (-638), and Pericles (-494).

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  • Photo of Aristotle

    Aristotle

    PHILOSOPHER

    384 BC - 321 BC

    HPI: 96.25

    Rank: 1

  • Photo of Plato

    Plato

    PHILOSOPHER

    427 BC - 347 BC

    HPI: 95.94

    Rank: 2

  • Photo of Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great

    MILITARY PERSONNEL

    356 BC - 323 BC

    HPI: 95.63

    Rank: 3

  • Photo of Homer

    Homer

    WRITER

    800 BC - 750 BC

    HPI: 95.41

    Rank: 4

  • Photo of Socrates

    Socrates

    PHILOSOPHER

    470 BC - 399 BC

    HPI: 94.90

    Rank: 5

  • Photo of Pythagoras

    Pythagoras

    PHILOSOPHER

    570 BC - 495 BC

    HPI: 93.36

    Rank: 6

  • Photo of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

    POLITICIAN

    1881 - 1938

    HPI: 91.26

    Rank: 7

  • Photo of Hippocrates

    Hippocrates

    PHYSICIAN

    460 BC - 370 BC

    HPI: 90.19

    Rank: 8

  • Photo of Sophocles

    Sophocles

    WRITER

    497 BC - 406 BC

    HPI: 89.32

    Rank: 9

  • Photo of Democritus

    Democritus

    PHILOSOPHER

    460 BC - 360 BC

    HPI: 86.85

    Rank: 10

  • Photo of Epicurus

    Epicurus

    PHILOSOPHER

    341 BC - 269 BC

    HPI: 86.65

    Rank: 11

  • Photo of Solon

    Solon

    POLITICIAN

    638 BC - 558 BC

    HPI: 86.59

    Rank: 12

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    Pericles

    POLITICIAN

    494 BC - 429 BC

    HPI: 86.36

    Rank: 13

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Among POLITICIANS In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ranks 1. After him are Solon (-638), Pericles (-494), Bayezid II (1447), Philip II of Macedon (-382), Kösem Sultan (1590), Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769), Demosthenes (-384), Cleisthenes (-565), Lycurgus of Sparta (-800), Leonidas I (-540), and Peisistratos (-600).

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