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E. M. S. Namboodiripad

1909 - 1998

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Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad (13 June 1909 – 19 March 1998), popularly known as 'E.M.S. Namboodiripad' or simply by his initials 'E. M. S.', was an Indian communist politician and theorist, who served as the first Chief Minister of Kerala in 1957–1959 and then again in 1967–1969. As a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI), he became the first non-Congress Chief Minister in the Indian republic. In 1964, he led a faction of the CPI that broke away to form the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. M. S. Namboodiripad has received more than 1,134,357 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. E. M. S. Namboodiripad is the 16,630th most popular politician, the 827th most popular biography from India and the 227th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, E. M. S. Namboodiripad ranks 16,630 out of 19,576Before him are John Haglelgam, Yaël Braun-Pivet, Grigol Vashadze, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini, and John O. Brennan. After him are Gideon Welles, Philippe Douste-Blazy, Amir Ohana, Samuel Huntington, Anthony Carmona, and Tekle Giyorgis II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, E. M. S. Namboodiripad ranks 383Before him are Dorothy Round, Juan Pedevilla, Joyce Cooper, Stefan Skoumal, Karen Morley, and Dragomir Tošić. After him are Vivian Vance, William Gemmell Cochran, Teofilo Spasojević, Vladimir Barmin, Frank Albertson, and Alan Curtis. Among people deceased in 1998, E. M. S. Namboodiripad ranks 293Before him are Elio Morille, Tommy Flowers, James Lighthill, Hammond Innes, Dan Osman, and Lalita Pawar. After him are Valerie Hobson, Dušan Pašek, Ran Laurie, Aleksey Spiridonov, John Hunt, Baron Hunt, and Boris Tatushin.

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In India

Among people born in India, E. M. S. Namboodiripad ranks 827 out of 1,861Before him are Madhavrao Scindia (1945), Manorama (1937), Vani Jairam (1945), Smita Patil (1955), Lalita Pawar (1916), and Nirmala Deshpande (1929). After him are Amjad Ali Khan (1945), George Caridia (1869), Sonu Sood (1973), Anil Ambani (1959), Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914), and Harold Walden (1887).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, E. M. S. Namboodiripad ranks 227Before him are Rabri Devi (1956), Pinarayi Vijayan (1945), Parkash Singh Badal (1927), Murli Manohar Joshi (1934), Shyamala Gopalan (1938), and Madhavrao Scindia (1945). After him are V. K. Krishna Menon (1896), Adolf Lu Hitler Marak (1958), Salmaan Taseer (1944), Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (1949), Bhanu Athaiya (1929), and Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1941).