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Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan

1797 - 1871

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Imam Shamil (Arabic: الشيخ شامل, romanized: al-Šaykh Šāmil; Avar: Шейх Шамил, romanized: Sheykh Shamil; Chechen: имам Шемал, romanized: imam Shemal; Kumyk: Шамил, romanized: Şamil; Russian: Имам Шамиль; 26 June 1797 – 4 February 1871) was the political, military, and spiritual leader of North Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in the 1800s, the third Imam of the Caucasian Imamate (1840–1859), and a Sunni Muslim sheikh of the Naqshbandi Sufis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan is the 1,351st most popular politician (down from 953rd in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Russia (down from 109th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Russian Politician.

Shamil was the 3rd imam of Dagestan and is most famous for leading a jihad against Russia in the 1800s.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan ranks 1,351 out of 19,576. Before him are Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Klement Gottwald, Dzhokhar Dudayev, Robert I of France, Qin Er Shi, and Lou Henry Hoover. After him are Paul Barras, Afonso V of Portugal, Romanos I Lekapenos, Calpurnia, Tabaré Vázquez, and Jianwen Emperor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan ranks 8. Before him are William I, German Emperor, Heinrich Heine, Gaetano Donizetti, Mary Shelley, Adolphe Thiers, and Hiroshige. After him are Ghalib, Joseph Henry, Paul Delaroche, Charles Lyell, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, and Ferdinand von Wrangel. Among people deceased in 1871, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan ranks 3. Before him are Charles Babbage, and John Herschel. After him are Daniel Auber, Augustus De Morgan, Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Michael Thonet, Louise of the Netherlands, Omar Pasha, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Anna Atkins, and Sigismond Thalberg.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan ranks 124 out of 3,761. Before him are Ivan VI of Russia (1740), Olga of Kiev (890), Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Feodor III of Russia (1661), and Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944). After him are Mikhail Glinka (1804), Sergey Kirov (1886), Vasili IV of Russia (1552), Mily Balakirev (1837), Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), and Pavel Cherenkov (1904).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan ranks 45. Before him are Nikolai Yezhov (1895), Tokhtamysh (1342), Grigory Potemkin (1739), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), Feodor III of Russia (1661), and Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944). After him are Sergey Kirov (1886), Vasili IV of Russia (1552), Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893), Alexei Rykov (1881), Ivan V of Russia (1666), and Walther Funk (1890).

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