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Bahadur Shah Zafar

Mughal emperor

1775 - 1862

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His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2024). Bahadur Shah Zafar is the 393rd most popular politician (up from 1,798th in 2024), the 21st most popular biography from India (up from 62nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Indian Politician.

Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal emperor of India. He is most famous for being the emperor during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which was a rebellion against the British East India Company.

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Bahadur Shah Zafar climbed 4,399 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #5,732 to #1,333.

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Bahadur Shah Zafar ranks #21 among 2,312 people in Pantheon born in India, inside the top 1% of that group.

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Bahadur Shah Zafar's biography appears in 59 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 93% of all Politicians.

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Among Politicians

Among politicians, Bahadur Shah Zafar ranks 393 out of 20,022. Before him are Rudolf Höss, Vyacheslav Molotov, Peter III of Russia, Charles I of Anjou, Peisistratos, and Olof Palme. After him are Ashurbanipal, Stephen I of Hungary, Gerhard Schröder, Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, Alexander Dubček, and Oscar II of Sweden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Bahadur Shah Zafar ranks 4. Before him are André-Marie Ampère, Jane Austen, and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. After him are J. M. W. Turner, Ching Shih, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène François Vidocq, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Matthew Lewis, and François-Adrien Boieldieu. Among people deceased in 1862, Bahadur Shah Zafar ranks 2. Before him is Martin Van Buren. After him are Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Colt, John Tyler, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Fromental Halévy, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Božena Němcová, James Clark Ross, and Princess Maria Antonia Koháry.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bahadur Shah Zafar ranks 21 out of 2,312. Before him are A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Amitabh Bachchan (1942), Droupadi Murmu (1958), Nagarjuna (150), Patanjali (-200), and B. R. Ambedkar (1891). After him are Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), and Razia Sultana (1205).

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Among Politicians In India

Among politicians born in India, Bahadur Shah Zafar ranks 9. Before him are Ashoka (-304), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), Pratibha Patil (1934), A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Droupadi Murmu (1958), and B. R. Ambedkar (1891). After him are Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), Razia Sultana (1205), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), Rani of Jhansi (1828), and Zakir Husain (1897).

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