# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sher-ali-khan
# Generated: 2026-09-06T09:42:05.592Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sher-ali-khan"
name: "Sher Ali Khan"
slug: "sher-ali-khan"
description: "Sher Ali Khan Barakzai was Emir of Afghanistan after the death of his father Dost Mohammad Khan on 9 June 1863, until his overthrow during the Battle of Sheikhabad on 10 May 1866, and was restored to the throne on 8 September 1868, ruling until his death on 21 February 1879. He was one of the sons of Dost Mohammad Khan."
tagline: "Emir of Afghanistan (1863-1879)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sher_Ali_(1825-1879)_Amir_of_Afghanistan%2C_photographed_in_1869_by_John_Burke.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1825"
deathDate: "1879-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.95
  momentum:             2.797620231385014
  historical:           20.69083333333334
  currentAttention:     12.71317829457364
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Širas Ali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ഷേർ അലി ഖാൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump