INVENTOR

Arunachalam Muruganantham

1961 - Today

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Arunachalam Muruganantham (born 12 October 1961) also known as Padman is a social entrepreneur from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India. He is the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine and is credited for innovating grassroots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural India. His mini-machines, which can manufacture sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost of commercial pads, have been installed in 23 of the 29 states of India in rural areas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arunachalam Muruganantham has received more than 3,456,630 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Arunachalam Muruganantham is the 373rd most popular inventor (down from 357th in 2019), the 728th most popular biography from India (down from 655th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Inventor.

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  • 3.08

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Arunachalam Muruganantham ranks 373 out of 426. Before him are Lewis Howard Latimer, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Henry J. Kaiser, Per Georg Scheutz, Frank Piasecki, and Andrew Viterbi. After him are Margaret E. Knight, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, William Fothergill Cooke, Karl Jatho, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, and Harold Eugene Edgerton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Arunachalam Muruganantham ranks 337. Before him are Jon Secada, Mary Barra, József Szájer, Amina J. Mohammed, John Key, and Fabio Biondi. After him are Aram Sargsyan, Omar Razzaz, Toni Nadal, Luigi De Agostini, Irfan Smajlagić, and Evan Handler.

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In India

Among people born in India, Arunachalam Muruganantham ranks 728 out of 1,861. Before him are Saeed Jaffrey (1929), Nirmala Sitharaman (1959), Peter Sarstedt (1941), John Abraham (1972), S. M. Krishna (1932), and Usha Mehta (1920). After him are Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874), Sharman Joshi (1979), Charles Sturt (1795), Muiz ud din Bahram (null), Anna Chandy (1905), and Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan (1905).

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Among INVENTORS In India

Among inventors born in India, Arunachalam Muruganantham ranks 1. After him are John Shepherd-Barron (1925).

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