1945 - Today
Azim Hashim Premji (born 24 July 1945) is an Indian businessman and philanthropist, who was the chairman of Wipro Limited. Premji remains a non-executive member of the board and founder chairman. He is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Azim Premji has received more than 6,274,482 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Azim Premji is the 412th most popular businessperson (down from 310th in 2019), the 470th most popular biography from India (down from 356th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indian Businessperson.
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Among businesspeople, Azim Premji ranks 412 out of 601. Before him are Jensen Huang, Gigi Becali, Jim Marshall, Savva Mamontov, Gaston Gallimard, and Jerry Yang. After him are Muhtar Kent, Mansour Ojjeh, Elizabeth Christ Trump, Lev Avnerovich Leviev, Gustav Wiederkehr, and David Geffen.
1963 - Present
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 406
1958 - Present
HPI: 48.69
Rank: 407
1923 - 2012
HPI: 48.62
Rank: 408
1841 - 1918
HPI: 48.62
Rank: 409
1881 - 1975
HPI: 48.62
Rank: 410
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.59
Rank: 411
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.51
Rank: 412
1952 - Present
HPI: 48.42
Rank: 413
1952 - 2021
HPI: 48.35
Rank: 414
1880 - 1966
HPI: 48.33
Rank: 415
1956 - Present
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 416
1905 - 1972
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 417
1943 - Present
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 418
Among people born in 1945, Azim Premji ranks 313. Before him are Salvador Valdés Mesa, Helen Fisher, Dusty Rhodes, Marino Basso, Andrew Birkin, and Willeke Alberti. After him are Romeo Benetti, Richard Hatch, Marielle Goitschel, Burning Spear, Mats Wahl, and Yuri Antonov.
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.63
Rank: 307
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.62
Rank: 308
1945 - 2015
HPI: 48.59
Rank: 309
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.58
Rank: 310
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.53
Rank: 311
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.51
Rank: 312
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.51
Rank: 313
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 314
1945 - 2017
HPI: 48.42
Rank: 315
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.41
Rank: 316
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 317
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.23
Rank: 318
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.13
Rank: 319
Among people born in India, Azim Premji ranks 470 out of 1,493. Before him are Bipin Rawat (1958), Andrew Scott Waugh (1810), Om Puri (1950), Shuja-ud-Daula (1732), Nutan (1936), and Muhammad Azam Shah (1653). After him are Verghese Kurien (1921), H. D. Deve Gowda (1933), Rajendra K. Pachauri (1940), Percy Hobart (1885), Sanjay Gandhi (1946), and Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (1858).
1958 - 2021
HPI: 48.67
Rank: 464
1810 - 1878
HPI: 48.64
Rank: 465
1950 - 2017
HPI: 48.60
Rank: 466
1732 - 1775
HPI: 48.60
Rank: 467
1936 - 1991
HPI: 48.58
Rank: 468
1653 - 1707
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 469
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.51
Rank: 470
1921 - 2012
HPI: 48.50
Rank: 471
1933 - Present
HPI: 48.50
Rank: 472
1940 - 2020
HPI: 48.46
Rank: 473
1885 - 1957
HPI: 48.42
Rank: 474
1946 - 1980
HPI: 48.40
Rank: 475
1858 - 1945
HPI: 48.39
Rank: 476
Among businesspeople born in India, Azim Premji ranks 7. Before him are Lakshmi Mittal (1950), Jamsetji Tata (1839), Ratan Tata (1937), Dhirubhai Ambani (1932), Satya Nadella (1967), and Sundar Pichai (1972). After him are Vijay Mallya (1955), Indra Nooyi (1955), Anil Ambani (1959), Chandrashekhar Agashe (1888), N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946), and Nita Ambani (1963).
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 1
1839 - 1904
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 2
1937 - Present
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 3
1932 - 2002
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 4
1967 - Present
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 5
1972 - Present
HPI: 50.42
Rank: 6
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.51
Rank: 7
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 8
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.09
Rank: 9
1959 - Present
HPI: 41.56
Rank: 10
1888 - 1956
HPI: 41.13
Rank: 11
1946 - Present
HPI: 40.69
Rank: 12
1963 - Present
HPI: 37.38
Rank: 13