SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Anna Hazare

1937 - Today

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Kisan Baburao "Anna" Hazare (; born 15 June 1937) is an Indian social activist who led movements to promote rural development, increase government transparency, and investigate and punish corruption in public life. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan—the third-highest civilian award—by the Government of India in 1992. Hazare started a hunger strike on 5 April 2011 to exert pressure on the Indian government to enact a stringent anti-corruption law, The Lokpal Bill, 2011 as envisaged in the Jan Lokpal Bill, for the institution of an ombudsman with the power to deal with corruption in public places. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Hazare has received more than 2,436,497 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Anna Hazare is the 217th most popular social activist (up from 231st in 2019), the 218th most popular biography from India (up from 246th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Anna Hazare ranks 217 out of 840. Before him are Sylvia Pankhurst, Christoph Probst, Balthasar Gérard, Ravachol, Franciszek Gajowniczek, and Sophia Perovskaya. After him are Soh Jaipil, Gloria Steinem, Hanan Ashrawi, Czesława Kwoka, Guillaume Cale, and Huber Matos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Anna Hazare ranks 106. Before him are Shirley Bassey, John Horton Conway, Kōichirō Matsuura, Baden Powell, Vittorio Brambilla, and Tom Simpson. After him are Eugen Doga, Ryutaro Hashimoto, Peter Burke, Monika Ertl, Tsukasa Hosaka, and Steven Berkoff.

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In India

Among people born in India, Anna Hazare ranks 218 out of 1,861. Before him are Khudiram Bose (1889), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), Ibrahim Lodi (1450), Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), Anna Leonowens (1831), and Rajendra Chola I (1000). After him are Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876), Jamsetji Tata (1839), Rani Durgavati (1524), Nizamuddin Auliya (1238), Rajaraja I (947), and Amrapali (-450).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Anna Hazare ranks 14. Before him are Vinoba Bhave (1895), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Mangal Pandey (1827), Kittur Chennamma (1778), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), and Khudiram Bose (1889). After him are C. Rajagopalachari (1878), Jayaprakash Narayan (1902), Vandana Shiva (1952), Harilal Gandhi (1888), Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842), and Aruna Asaf Ali (1909).

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