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Girija Prasad Koirala

1924 - 2010

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Nepal Ratna Girija Prasad Koirala (Nepali: गिरिजाप्रसाद कोइराला ; 4 July 1924 – 20 March 2010), affectionately known as Girija Babu, was a Nepalese politician. He headed the Nepali Congress and served as the Prime Minister of Nepal on four occasions: from 1991 to 1994, 1998 to 1999, 2000 to 2001, and 2006 to 2008. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Girija Prasad Koirala has received more than 578,137 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Girija Prasad Koirala is the 10,357th most popular politician (up from 10,735th in 2019), the 369th most popular biography from India and the 122nd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Girija Prasad Koirala ranks 10,357 out of 19,576. Before him are Bashir ibn Sa'd, Michael II Apafi, Jacques Duclos, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Arnoldo Alemán, and Celia Sánchez. After him are David Kimhi, Princess Anna of Saxony, Luigi Pelloux, Tribhuvan of Nepal, Mstislav III of Kiev, and Alexander I Aldea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Girija Prasad Koirala ranks 184. Before him are Aleksandar Tišma, Yuri Orlov, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Werner Kohlmeyer, John Hansen, and Max Roach. After him are Jean-François Revel, Gohar Gasparyan, Fud Leclerc, Gevork Vartanian, Isadore Singer, and Maurice Karnaugh. Among people deceased in 2010, Girija Prasad Koirala ranks 142. Before him are Shmuel Eisenstadt, Hajo Herrmann, Pernell Roberts, Abraham Sutzkever, Leonid Kizim, and Bogdan Bogdanović. After him are Sinan Hasani, Cesare Siepi, Albert Ghiorso, Roberto Rosato, Ernst von Glasersfeld, and Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.

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In India

Among people born in India, Girija Prasad Koirala ranks 369 out of 1,861. Before him are Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), C. R. Rao (1920), Skandagupta (500), Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1911), Rana Sanga (1482), and Guru Har Krishan (1656). After him are Udit Narayan (1955), Meena Kumari (1933), Dara Shukoh (1615), K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), Gupta (240), and Baba Amte (1914).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Girija Prasad Koirala ranks 122. Before him are Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905), Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1864), Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725), Lahiri Mahasaya (1828), Skandagupta (500), and Rana Sanga (1482). After him are Dara Shukoh (1615), Gupta (240), Rani Padmini (null), Nitish Kumar (1951), Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), and Iskander Mirza (1899).

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