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Sheikh Hasina

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Sheikh Hasina Wazed (born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001 and again from 2009 to 2024. She is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's founding president, and has been President of the Awami League since 1981. During her tenure, she became the country's longest-serving prime minister and one of the longest-serving female heads of government globally. In 2025 she was sentenced to death by the Bangladeshi International Crimes Tribunal for crimes against humanity in absentia. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 101 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2024). Sheikh Hasina is the 413th most popular politician (up from 2,781st in 2024), the most popular biography from Bangladesh (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Bangladeshi Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sheikh Hasina ranks 413 out of 19,576. Before her are Thutmose III, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Charles VIII of France, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Croesus, and Francis II of France. After her are Elizabeth of Russia, William the Silent, Galba, Leopold II of Belgium, Woodrow Wilson, and Charles VI of France.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Sheikh Hasina ranks 8. Before her are Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Johan Cruyff, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paulo Coelho, Stephen King, and David Bowie. After her are Florentino Pérez, Brian Johnson, Elton John, Dilma Rousseff, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and Brian May.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina ranks 1 out of 74. After her are Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858), Chandragupta I (250), Muhammad Yunus (1940), Mohammed Shahabuddin (1949), Atiśa (982), Abdul Hamid (1944), Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920), Mohammad Ali Bogra (1909), Matsyendranatha (901), Zillur Rahman (1929), and William Beveridge (1879).

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Among POLITICIANS In Bangladesh

Among politicians born in Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina ranks 1. After her are Chandragupta I (250), Mohammed Shahabuddin (1949), Abdul Hamid (1944), Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920), Mohammad Ali Bogra (1909), Zillur Rahman (1929), Ziaur Rahman (1936), Iajuddin Ahmed (1931), Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894), Shahabuddin Ahmed (1930), and A. B. Bardhan (1924).

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