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Bhairon Singh Shekhawat

1923 - 2010

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Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (23 October 1923 – 15 May 2010) was an Indian politician who served as the 11th vice president of India. He served in that position from August 2002, when he was elected to a five-year term by the electoral college following the death of Krishan Kant, until he resigned on 21 July 2007, after losing the presidential election to Pratibha Patil. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bhairon Singh Shekhawat has received more than 1,160,018 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Bhairon Singh Shekhawat is the 13,168th most popular politician (down from 13,050th in 2019), the 516th most popular biography from India (down from 500th in 2019) and the 163rd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat ranks 13,168 out of 19,576. Before him are Adelaide of Hesse, Boris Eikhenbaum, Sergio Massa, Sténio Vincent, Publius Sempronius Tuditanus, and Ignacy Potocki. After him are Pote Sarasin, Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Fujiwara no Koretada, Nikola Gruevski, Maura Healey, and Paul Warburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat ranks 273. Before him are William Windom, V. C. Andrews, Hanna Maron, Bror Mellberg, Aleksandra Chudina, and Thad Jones. After him are Hassan Ali Mansur, Daniil Shafran, Bülent Ulusu, Oskar Fischer, Patrick Hillery, and Ennio de Concini. Among people deceased in 2010, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat ranks 223. Before him are Charlie Wilson, Carl Adam Petri, Jackie Burroughs, Ronald Neame, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, and Dixie Carter. After him are Ed Roberts, Charles Mackerras, Loki Schmidt, Jacqueline de Romilly, George C. Williams, and Robert Byrd.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat ranks 516 out of 1,861. Before him are Durgabai Deshmukh (1909), Islam Shah Suri (1510), N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946), Rajendra K. Pachauri (1940), Erick Avari (1952), and Derek Prince (1915). After him are Saint Alphonsa (1910), Kalyan Singh (1932), Priyanka Chopra (1982), Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903), Sugathakumari (1934), and Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (1565).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat ranks 163. Before him are Surendranath Banerjee (1848), H. D. Deve Gowda (1933), K. Sivan (1957), Meira Kumar (1945), Durgabai Deshmukh (1909), and Islam Shah Suri (1510). After him are Kalyan Singh (1932), Mayawati (1956), Alivardi Khan (1671), Jyoti Basu (1914), Shivraj Singh Chouhan (1959), and Jagjivan Ram (1908).

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