# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mahmud-barzanji
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:43:24.128Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mahmud-barzanji"
name: "Mahmud Barzanji"
slug: "mahmud-barzanji"
description: "Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji, also known as Mahmud Hafid Zadeh was a Kurdish leader who led a series of Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq. He was sheikh of a Qadiriyah Sufi family of the Barzanji clan from the city of Sulaymaniyah, which is now in the Kurdistan Region. He was subsequently given the title King of Kurdistan after the uprisings."
tagline: "King of Kurdistan (1878–1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mahmud_Barzanji.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1878"
deathDate: "1956-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.943136
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mahmud Barzani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mahmud Barzanji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_Berzenci"
    title: "Mahmud Berzenci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887905"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump