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Dadabhai Naoroji

1825 - 1917

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Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917) (also known as the "Grand Old Man of India" and "Unofficial Ambassador of India"), was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar and writer who served as 2nd, 9th, and 22nd President of the Indian National Congress from 1886 to 1887, 1893 to 1894 and 1906 to 1907. He was the Diwan of Baroda from 1874, before moving to England, where he was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, representing Finsbury Central between 1892 and 1895. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dadabhai Naoroji has received more than 2,776,910 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Dadabhai Naoroji is the 3,365th most popular politician (up from 5,636th in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from India (up from 161st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dadabhai Naoroji ranks 3,365 out of 15,577Before him are Louis, Prince Napoléon, Constantine Bodin, Suppiluliuma II, Abimelech, Devlet I Giray, and Patricio Aylwin. After him are Leopold I, Margrave of Austria, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Julia Soaemias, Antiphon, Verres, and Kaykhusraw I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Dadabhai Naoroji ranks 11Before him are Pedro II of Brazil, Jean-Martin Charcot, Johann Jakob Balmer, Charles Garnier, Paul Kruger, and Julia, Princess of Battenberg. After him are Marie of Prussia, Eduard Hanslick, Emil Erlenmeyer, Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, Sher Ali Khan, and Henri Giffard. Among people deceased in 1917, Dadabhai Naoroji ranks 21Before him are Franz Brentano, Scott Joplin, Dragutin Dimitrijević, Ludwig Minkus, Ranavalona III, and Hussein Kamel of Egypt. After him are Liliʻuokalani, Jean Gaston Darboux, Radomir Putnik, Léon Bloy, Adolph Wagner, and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius.

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In India

Among people born in India, Dadabhai Naoroji ranks 112 out of 1,493Before him are Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924), Basava (1134), Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838), Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), and Ahmed Deedat (1918). After him are Pervez Musharraf (1943), Vinoba Bhave (1895), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815), Namdev (1270), Jyotirao Phule (1827), and James Brooke (1803).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Dadabhai Naoroji ranks 32Before him are Chandragupta II (400), Vishvamitra (-2000), Maharana Pratap (1540), Razia Sultana (1205), Bindusara (-320), and Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924). After him are Pervez Musharraf (1943), James Brooke (1803), Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), Mamnoon Hussain (1940), and Pranab Mukherjee (1935).