Statistics for Famous People Born in the -stans

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Born in	Lifespan	Hint	Person	% Correct
Pakistan	1997–	women's & human rights activist, youngest Nobel laureate	Malala Yousafzai	75%
Uzbekistan	1336–1405	brutal military leader & conqueror, eponymous empire	Timur	75%
Pakistan	1953–2007	exiled & assassinated 2-time female PM of Pakistan	Benazir Bhutto	63%
Afghanistan	1957–	tribe leader and president of Afghanistan 2002–14	Hamid Karzai	63%
Pakistan	1928–1979	executed Pakistani president / PM 1970–73, PPP founder	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto	63%
Pakistan	1542–1605	expansionist Mughal emperor who ruled most of India	Akbar	50%
Pakistan	1932–	economist, Sikh prime minister of India 2004–14	Manmohan Singh	38%
Afghanistan	1207–1273	Persian poet; Islamic scholar, mystic & spiritual leader	Rumi	38%
Turkmenistan	1957–	nacissistic authoritarian leader of Turkmenistan 2006–22	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow	25%
Pakistan	1469–1539	founder of Sikhism, first of the ten Sikh gurus	Guru Nanak	25%
Pakistan	1876–1948	first governor-general of Pakistan, Father of the Nation	Muhammad Ali Jinnah	25%
Pakistan	1592–1666	heyday Mughal emperor 1628–58, built the Taj Mahal	Shah Jahan	25%
Turkmenistan	780–850	Islamic Golden Age polymath, "father of algebra"	Al-Khwarizmi	13%
Pakistan	1955–	unpopular president of Pakistan 2008–13, husband of #6	Asif Ali Zardari	13%
Uzbekistan	1483–1530	conqueror, amir and founder of the Mughal Empire	Babur	13%
Pakistan	-375–-283	Indian polymath, pioneer of economics & political science	Chanakya	13%
Uzbekistan	1938–2016	authoritarian first leader of Uzbekistan 1989/91–2016	Islam Karimov	13%
Kyrgyzstan	701–762	legendary traditional Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty	Li Bai	13%
Pakistan	1887–1938	Urdu poet, philosopher & scholar; Pakistani National Poet	Muhammad Iqbal	13%
Kazakhstan	1940–	authoritarian first leader of Kazakhstan 1991–2019	Nursultan Nazarbayev	13%
Turkmenistan	1940–2006	repressive dictator of Turkmenistan 1991–2006, narcissist	Saparmurat Niyazov	13%
Pakistan	1926–1996	theoretical physicist (electroweak theory), Nobel 1979	Abdus Salam	0%
Uzbekistan	973–1048	Islamic Golden Age polymath, pioneer of various fields	Al-Biruni	0%
Uzbekistan	980–1037	Islamic Golden Age physician, astronomer & philosopher	Avicenna	0%
Kyrgyzstan	1928–2008	writer of short stories & novels (Jamila) and diplomat	Chinghiz Aitmatov	0%
Kyrgyzstan	1983–	Ukrainian singer, won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest	Jamala	0%
Pakistan	1910–1995	theoretical astrophysicist (stellar evolution), Nobel 1983	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	0%