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Bhanu Athaiya

1929 - 2020

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Bhanu Athaiya (née Rajopadhye; 28 April 1929 – 15 October 2020) was an Indian costume designer and painter. She was the first Indian to win an Academy Award. Alongside being Bollywood's most iconic costume designer, she had a historically important early career as an artist with contemporaries like M. F. Husain, F. N. Souza and Vasudeo S. Gaitonde. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bhanu Athaiya has received more than 542,138 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Bhanu Athaiya is the 16,761st most popular politician (down from 15,403rd in 2019), the 849th most popular biography from India (down from 720th in 2019) and the 232nd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bhanu Athaiya ranks 16,761 out of 19,576. Before her are Meglena Kuneva, Mohamed Nasheed, Elisabeta Lipă, Nellie Sengupta, Senkamanisken, and Anne-Marie Lizin. After her are Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Adolfas Šleževičius, Rebecca Harms, Khadija Arib, Gergely Karácsony, and María Fernanda Espinosa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Bhanu Athaiya ranks 493. Before her are Nirmala Deshpande, Rex Hartwig, Antonina Seredina, Edith M. Flanigen, Joseph Mascolo, and Sofia Muratova. After her are Yelizaveta Bagryantseva, Irwin I. Shapiro, Amanda Blake, William E. Thornton, Ursula Knab, and Henry Proctor. Among people deceased in 2020, Bhanu Athaiya ranks 662. Before her are Pau Donés, James Flynn, Georg Volkert, Hasan Muratović, Michel Roux, and Michael Robinson. After her are Kumiko Okae, Gregory Areshian, Dawn Wells, Rudi Hoffmann, John Prine, and Vidin Apostolov.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bhanu Athaiya ranks 849 out of 1,861. Before her are Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930), Narayan Rao (1755), Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (1949), Jadav Payeng (1963), Subhash Ghai (1945), and Salil Chowdhury (1925). After her are Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1941), Rajeshwari Chatterjee (1922), Virat Kohli (1988), Chidambaram Subramaniam (1910), Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal (1838), and Geeta Bali (1930).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Bhanu Athaiya ranks 232. Before her are Madhavrao Scindia (1945), E. M. S. Namboodiripad (1909), V. K. Krishna Menon (1896), Adolf Lu Hitler Marak (1958), Salmaan Taseer (1944), and Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (1949). After her are Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1941), Chidambaram Subramaniam (1910), Arvind Kejriwal (1968), Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (1915), Afzal-ud-Daulah (1827), and Kanu Sanyal (1928).

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