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James Brooke

1803 - 1868

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Sir James Brooke, Rajah[note] of Sarawak (29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868), was a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo. He ruled as the first White Rajah of Sarawak from 1841 until his death in 1868. Brooke was born and raised in India during the rule of the British East India Company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Brooke has received more than 1,166,320 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). James Brooke is the 5,159th most popular politician (down from 3,657th in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from India (down from 117th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, James Brooke ranks 5,159 out of 19,576. Before him are Emperor Chōkei, Louis I, Count of Flanders, Hakor, Peter Stuyvesant, Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Henry II, Duke of Lorraine. After him are José Sarney, Liuva I, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, Kong Rong, Valentin Pavlov, and Alexandre Pétion.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, James Brooke ranks 18. Before him are Fyodor Tyutchev, Friedrich von Amerling, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Ferenc Deák, Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, and Maria Teresa of Savoy. After him are Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, John Ericsson, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Muhammad IV of Morocco, and Jacques Charles François Sturm. Among people deceased in 1868, James Brooke ranks 18. Before him are David Brewster, Adalbert Stifter, Franz Berwald, James Mayer de Rothschild, Kondō Isami, and Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne. After him are Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Tewodros II, François-Édouard Picot, Bhanubhakta Acharya, Carlo Matteucci, and Rasoherina.

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In India

Among people born in India, James Brooke ranks 175 out of 1,861. Before him are Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856), Kittur Chennamma (1778), Lala Lajpat Rai (1865), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Shantideva (685), and Abdul Karim (1863). After him are Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Khaleda Zia (1945), Mahadevi Varma (1907), Dnyaneshwar (1275), S. R. Ranganathan (1892), and Dharmendra (1935).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, James Brooke ranks 56. Before him are Zakir Husain (1897), Vikramaditya (-102), Birsa Munda (1875), Mamnoon Hussain (1940), Lala Lajpat Rai (1865), and Abdul Karim (1863). After him are Khaleda Zia (1945), Ahilyabai Holkar (1725), M. Visvesvaraya (1861), Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Pushyamitra Shunga (-300), and Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924).

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