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Hyder Ali

1720 - 1782

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Hyder Ali (Haidar'alī; حيدرعلى; Kannada: [hɐi̯d̪ɐr ɐliː] c. 1720 – 7 December 1782) was the Sultan and de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India. Born as Hyder Ali, he distinguished himself as a soldier, eventually drawing the attention of Mysore's rulers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hyder Ali has received more than 2,342,034 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Hyder Ali is the 8,576th most popular politician (down from 6,713th in 2019), the 292nd most popular biography from India (down from 213th in 2019) and the 98th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hyder Ali ranks 8,576 out of 19,576. Before him are Mordechai Gur, Sahra Wagenknecht, Lyuh Woon-hyung, Muhammad bin Nayef, Elihan Tore, and Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuán. After him are Ordulf, Duke of Saxony, Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Selim I Giray, Barbara of Brandenburg, Marquise of Mantua, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, and Eucleidas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, Hyder Ali ranks 16. Before him are Heraclius II of Georgia, Charles Bonnet, Vilna Gaon, Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, and Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon. After him are Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Johann Schobert, Maximilian Hell, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, and Charles De Geer. Among people deceased in 1782, Hyder Ali ranks 18. Before him are Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, and Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Sava Petrović, Daniel Solander, and Richard Wilson.

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In India

Among people born in India, Hyder Ali ranks 292 out of 1,861. Before him are P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921), Alamgir II (1699), Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897), Mohammed Rafi (1924), Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), and Rahul Sankrityayan (1893). After him are M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), Sarada Devi (1853), M. S. Swaminathan (1925), and Inayat Khan (1882).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Hyder Ali ranks 98. Before him are Birbal (1528), Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900), Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921), and Alamgir II (1699). After him are Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), M. S. Swaminathan (1925), Nana Sahib (1824), K. Kamaraj (1903), Zail Singh (1916), and Chandra Shekhar (1927).

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