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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 745,033 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Fathima Beevi is the 18th most popular judge (up from 22nd in 2019), the 432nd most popular biography from India (up from 523rd in 2019) and the most popular Indian Judge.

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Among JUDGES

Among judges, Fathima Beevi ranks 18 out of 41Before her are Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, Antonin Scalia, Edward Coke, Stephen Breyer, John Roberts, and Thurgood Marshall. After her are Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, Maryanne Trump Barry, Warren E. Burger, Anthony Kennedy, and Carlo Biotti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Fathima Beevi ranks 217Before her are Freddie Jones, William Daniels, Laurel Aitken, Eva Bartok, Liane Augustin, and Yevgeny Morgunov. After her are Jerry Schatzberg, Stuart Rosenberg, William Hickey, Júlio Duarte Langa, László Paskai, and Yusuf Idris. Among people deceased in 2023, Fathima Beevi ranks 197Before her are Michel Deville, Colin Burgess, Álvaro Colom, Sandra Day O'Connor, Romualdo Arppi Filho, and Harry Frankfurt. After her are Francesco Alberoni, Yuri Manin, Elisabeth Kopp, Ken Block, Burhan Sargun, and Dariush Mehrjui.

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In India

Among people born in India, Fathima Beevi ranks 432 out of 1,493Before her are Guru Har Krishan (1656), Jayalalithaa (1948), Nirmala Srivastava (1923), Kamala Nehru (1899), Krishan Chander (1914), and Nagarjun (1911). After her are Arundhati Roy (1961), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), Prahlad Jani (1929), and Bhagwan Das (1869).

Among JUDGES In India

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