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Fathima Beevi

1927 - 2023

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M. Fathima Beevi (30 April 1927 – 23 November 2023) was an Indian judge who was a justice of the Supreme Court of India. Appointed to the apex Court in 1989, she became the first female judge to be a part of the Supreme Court of India, and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to any of the higher judiciaries in the country. On her retirement from the court, she served as a member of the National Human Rights Commission and later as the Governor of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu from 1997 to 2001. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fathima Beevi has received more than 799,827 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Fathima Beevi is the 19th most popular judge (down from 18th in 2019), the 451st most popular biography from India (down from 429th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Judge.

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Among JUDGES

Among judges, Fathima Beevi ranks 19 out of 53. Before her are Georg Konrad Morgen, Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, Clarence Thomas, Thurgood Marshall, Edward Coke, and Antonin Scalia. After her are Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey, Anthony Kennedy, and Warren E. Burger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Fathima Beevi ranks 221. Before her are Micheline Bernardini, Greta Andersen, Roger Carel, Yusuf Idris, Thorkild Hansen, and Liane Augustin. After her are John Cranko, John Ashbery, Jerry Schatzberg, William Perry, David Hedison, and Simin Behbahani. Among people deceased in 2023, Fathima Beevi ranks 313. Before her are Gérard Collomb, Greta Andersen, Danilo Astori, Harry Frankfurt, Bernie Marsden, and Willis Reed. After her are Murat Karayılan, Josef Vojta, Peter Brötzmann, Randy Meisner, Rosi Mittermaier, and John Zizioulas.

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In India

Among people born in India, Fathima Beevi ranks 451 out of 1,861. Before her are Tanuja (1943), Jhalkaribai (1830), Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832), Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), Govind Ballabh Pant (1887), and K. D. Jadhav (1926). After her are Fatima Sheikh (1831), Pingali Venkayya (1876), Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), Jaswant Singh (1938), Chand Bibi (1550), and Firaq Gorakhpuri (1896).

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Among JUDGES In India

Among judges born in India, Fathima Beevi ranks 1. After her are Anna Chandy (1905), Leila Seth (1930), and Ranjan Gogoi (1954).

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