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Dhyan Chand

1905 - 1979

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Major Dhyan Chand (29 August 1905 – 3 December 1979) was an Indian field hockey player. He is widely regarded by many as the greatest field hockey player in world history. He was known for his extraordinary ball control and goal-scoring feats, in addition to earning three Olympic gold medals, in 1928, 1932 and 1936, during an era where India dominated field hockey. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dhyan Chand has received more than 4,103,546 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Dhyan Chand is the 4,947th most popular politician (up from 7,708th in 2019), the 156th most popular biography from India (up from 223rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dhyan Chand ranks 4,947 out of 15,577. Before him are Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, Philip I of Macedon, Jizi, Pridi Banomyong, Eupraxia of Kiev, and Saionji Kinmochi. After him are Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Amadeus II, Count of Savoy, Yoshirō Mori, Mohamed Boudiaf, and Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Dhyan Chand ranks 63. Before him are Sebastian Shaw, Piet Hein, Heinz Lammerding, Dolores del Río, Daniil Kharms, and Enrique Ballestrero. After him are James J. Braddock, Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Erika Mann, Pierre Levegh, Wolfram Sievers, and Joseph Kosma. Among people deceased in 1979, Dhyan Chand ranks 51. Before him are Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, Abul A'la Maududi, Mamie Eisenhower, Conrad Hilton, Teruo Nakamura, and Konstantin Simonov. After him are Dimitri Tiomkin, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Charles Mingus, Yuen Siu-tien, Alfredo Ottaviani, and Rudi Dutschke.

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In India

Among people born in India, Dhyan Chand ranks 156 out of 1,493. Before him are B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), Mahadevi Varma (1907), Mariam-uz-Zamani (1542), S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Ravi Shankar (1956), and Lala Lajpat Rai (1865). After him are Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I (1671), Jayadeva (1170), Sambhaji (1657), Subramania Bharati (1882), Bahadur Shah I (1643), and M. Visvesvaraya (1861).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Dhyan Chand ranks 46. Before him are Pratibha Patil (1934), Zakir Husain (1897), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887), V. V. Giri (1894), and Lala Lajpat Rai (1865). After him are Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I (1671), Sambhaji (1657), Bahadur Shah I (1643), M. Visvesvaraya (1861), Krishnadevaraya (1471), and Birsa Munda (1875).

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