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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 6,216,900 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Azim Premji is the 434th most popular businessperson (down from 412th in 2019), the 505th most popular biography from India (down from 466th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Indian Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Azim Premjis by language

Over the past year Azim Premji has had the most page views in the with 619,439 views, followed by Hindi (35,956), and Kannada (5,154). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (192.12%), Swedish (59.65%), and Russian (46.17%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Azim Premji ranks 434 out of 847. Before him are Ernest Oppenheimer, Eli Lilly, Suge Knight, Vicente Calderón, Peter Lynch, and Jawed Karim. After him are N. R. Narayana Murthy, Elisabeth Abegg, James Buchanan Duke, J. R. D. Tata, Muhtar Kent, and Pierre Veyron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Azim Premji ranks 346. Before him are Roberta Bondar, Pakalitha Mosisili, Gianni Amelio, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, David Sanborn, and Kent Karlsson. After him are Meira Kumar, Alan Ball Jr., Steinar Amundsen, Burt Ward, Walter Momper, and Celestino Aós Braco.

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In India

Among people born in India, Azim Premji ranks 505 out of 1,861. Before him are Sunny Deol (1956), Surendranath Banerjee (1848), Ilaiyaraaja (1943), Saalumarada Thimmakka (1911), Gangubai Hangal (1913), and Dara Singh (1928). After him are Saadat Hasan Manto (1912), H. D. Deve Gowda (1933), K. Sivan (1957), Meira Kumar (1945), Durgabai Deshmukh (1909), and Islam Shah Suri (1510).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In India

Among businesspeople born in India, Azim Premji ranks 8. Before him are Jamsetji Tata (1839), Ratan Tata (1937), Dhirubhai Ambani (1932), Sundar Pichai (1972), Akshata Murty (1980), and Satya Nadella (1967). After him are N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946), Indra Nooyi (1955), Gautam Adani (1962), Vijay Mallya (1955), Dwarkanath Tagore (1794), and Ajay Banga (1959).

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