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Tippu Tip

1837 - 1905

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Tippu Tip, or Tippu Tib (c. 1837– June 14, 1905), real name Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʿah ibn Rajab ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al Murjabī (Arabic: حمد بن محمد بن جمعة بن رجب بن محمد بن سعيد المرجبي), was an Afro-Omani ivory and slave owner and trader, explorer, governor and plantation owner. He worked for a succession of sultans of Zanzibar and was the Sultan of Uterera, a short-lived state in Kasongo, Maniema ruled by himself and his son Sefu. Tippu Tip traded in slaves for Zanzibar's clove plantations. As part of the large and lucrative trade, he led many trading expeditions into Central Africa, constructing profitable trading posts deep into the Congo Basin region and thus becoming the best-known slave and ivory trader in Africa, supplying much of the world with ivory from enslaved Africans. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tippu Tip is the 11,285th most popular politician (down from 9,196th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Tanzania (down from 9th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Tanzanian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tippu Tip ranks 11,285 out of 19,576. Before him are Mohammad Yaqub Khan, Bolesław II the Horned, Sigmar Gabriel, Hàm Nghi, Argaeus II of Macedon, and Junius Rusticus. After him are Georges Leygues, Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Alain Berset, Uglješa Mrnjavčević, Fernand Bouisson, and Vyacheslav Kebich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Tippu Tip ranks 64. Before him are Ion Creangă, Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, George Dewey, Wilhelm Kühne, Kabayama Sukenori, and John Wesley Hyatt. After him are Ernst Ziller, Dwight L. Moody, Anna Filosofova, Sanjō Sanetomi, Walter Hauser, and Georg Ossian Sars. Among people deceased in 1905, Tippu Tip ranks 53. Before him are Mary Mapes Dodge, Jean-Jacques Henner, Máximo Gómez, Henry Irving, Siegfried Bing, and Robert Whitehead. After him are John Henninger Reagan, Debendranath Tagore, John Rogan, Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, René Goblet, and Hermann Wissmann.

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In Tanzania

Among people born in Tanzania, Tippu Tip ranks 14 out of 39. Before him are Jakaya Kikwete (1951), Kassim Majaliwa (1961), Benjamin Mkapa (1938), Laurean Rugambwa (1912), Cleopa Msuya (1931), and Mizengo Pinda (1948). After him are Polycarp Pengo (1944), Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar (1874), Majid bin Said of Zanzibar (1834), Protase Rugambwa (1960), Amani Abeid Karume (1948), and Marin Hinkle (1966).

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Among POLITICIANS In Tanzania

Among politicians born in Tanzania, Tippu Tip ranks 11. Before him are Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), Jakaya Kikwete (1951), Kassim Majaliwa (1961), Benjamin Mkapa (1938), Cleopa Msuya (1931), and Mizengo Pinda (1948). After him are Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar (1874), Majid bin Said of Zanzibar (1834), Amani Abeid Karume (1948), Asha-Rose Migiro (1956), Rashidi Kawawa (1926), and Edward Lowassa (1953).

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