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Azim Premji

1945 - Today

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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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  • 6.3M

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  • 48.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Azim Premji ranks 412 out of 601Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Azim Premji ranks 313Before 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.

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In India

Among people born in India, Azim Premji ranks 470 out of 1,493Before 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).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In India

Among businesspeople born in India, Azim Premji ranks 7Before 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).