SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Bhagat Singh

1907 - 1931

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Bhagat Singh (27 September 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary, who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 in what was to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist. He later took part in a largely symbolic bombing of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi and a hunger strike in jail, which—on the back of sympathetic coverage in Indian-owned newspapers—turned him into a household name in the Punjab region, and after his execution at age 23 into a martyr and folk hero in Northern India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bhagat Singh has received more than 18,541,141 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Bhagat Singh is the 68th most popular social activist, the 8th most popular biography from Pakistan and the most popular Pakistani Social Activist.

Bhagat Singh was a revolutionary who fought for India's independence from the British Empire. He was a member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association and is most famous for his involvement in the Lahore Conspiracy Case and the assassination of British police officer John Saunders.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Bhagat Singh ranks 68 out of 840. Before him are Thích Quảng Đức, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, José Rizal, Witold Pilecki, Camilo Cienfuegos, and Beatrice Cenci. After him are Jenny von Westphalen, Buenaventura Durruti, Dominique Pire, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Horst Wessel, and Sakamoto Ryōma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Bhagat Singh ranks 24. Before him are Jacques Tati, Lin Biao, Hideki Yukawa, Robert A. Heinlein, Lars Ahlfors, and Yang Shangkun. After him are Fred Zinnemann, John Bowlby, Horst Wessel, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Sister Lúcia, and François Duvalier. Among people deceased in 1931, Bhagat Singh ranks 17. Before him are Lili Elbe, Joseph Joffre, George Herbert Mead, Theo van Doesburg, Carl Nielsen, and F. W. Murnau. After him are Hermann Müller, Armand Fallières, Peter Kürten, Nathan Söderblom, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, and Eugène Ysaÿe.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Bhagat Singh ranks 8 out of 217. Before him are Shah Jahan (1592), Chanakya (-375), Shehbaz Sharif (1951), Guru Nanak (1469), Muhammad Iqbal (1877), and Pāṇini (-500). After him are Benazir Bhutto (1953), Vasubandhu (400), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Porus (-400), and Abdus Salam (1926).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Pakistan

Among social activists born in Pakistan, Bhagat Singh ranks 1. After him are Guru Ram Das (1534), Bacha Khan (1890), Malala Yousafzai (1997), Asma Jahangir (1952), Iqbal Masih (1983), Mukhtar Mai (1972), and Jalila Haider (1988).

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