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Bhimsen Thapa

1775 - 1839

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Bhimsen Thapa (Nepali: भीमसेन थापा (August 1775 – 29 July 1839)) was a Nepalese statesman who served as the Mukhtiyar (equivalent to prime minister) and de facto ruler of Nepal from 1806 to 1837. He is widely known as the longest-serving prime minister of Nepal and was inducted into the "National heroes of Nepal" by King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah. Born into an ordinary military family in the Gorkha Kingdom, Bhimsen first came close to the Crown Prince Rana Bahadur Shah at an early age in 1785. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bhimsen Thapa has received more than 368,465 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Bhimsen Thapa is the 12,253rd most popular politician (up from 12,902nd in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Nepal and the 14th most popular Nepalese Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bhimsen Thapas by language

Over the past year Bhimsen Thapa has had the most page views in the with 56,356 views, followed by Nepali (19,817), and Simple English (6,622). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (226.58%), Arabic (104.15%), and Nepali (78.02%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bhimsen Thapa ranks 12,253 out of 19,576. Before him are Gilles Andriamahazo, Manuel Doukas, Arsites, Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco, Víctor Balaguer i Cirera, and Publius Valerius Comazon. After him are Karin Keller-Sutter, Roman Golovchenko, Andrei Kozyrev, John Turner, Nikos Christodoulides, and Spyridon Trikoupis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Bhimsen Thapa ranks 36. Before him are Carlo Rossi, Stefan Bogoridi, Charles Lamb, George Prideaux Robert Harris, Nicolas Isouard, and Honoré Charles Reille. After him are François Marius Granet, Antonio Bertoloni, Constance Mayer, Thomas Girtin, José de Palafox y Melci, 1st Duke of Zaragoza, and Walter Savage Landor. Among people deceased in 1839, Bhimsen Thapa ranks 31. Before him are Denis Davydov, Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Maurice de Guérin, and Joseph Franz von Jacquin. After him are Giuseppe Valadier, Joseph-François Michaud, Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert, Yuriy Venelin, Hendrik Voogd, and Marie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Bhimsen Thapa ranks 26 out of 59. Before him are Mahendra of Nepal (1920), Tribhuvan of Nepal (1906), Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909), Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (1980), Araniko (1244), and Sher Bahadur Deuba (1946). After him are Jung Bahadur Rana (1817), Ashtavakra (null), Sushil Koirala (1939), Apa Sherpa (1960), Dipendra of Nepal (1971), and Queen Aishwarya of Nepal (1949).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nepal

Among politicians born in Nepal, Bhimsen Thapa ranks 14. Before him are Ram Chandra Poudel (1944), Pushpa Kamal Dahal (1954), Mahendra of Nepal (1920), Tribhuvan of Nepal (1906), Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (1980), and Sher Bahadur Deuba (1946). After him are Jung Bahadur Rana (1817), Ashtavakra (null), Sushil Koirala (1939), Dipendra of Nepal (1971), Queen Aishwarya of Nepal (1949), and Jhala Nath Khanal (1950).

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