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James Brooke

1803 - 1868

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Sir James Brooke, Rajah 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 during the Company Raj of the British East India Company in India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Brooke has received more than 1,083,872 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. James Brooke is the 3,667th most popular politician (up from 4,652nd in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from India (up from 131st in 2019) and the 34th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, James Brooke ranks 3,667 out of 15,577. Before him are Ziusudra, Ghazi of Iraq, Emil Jellinek, Menander I, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, and Bayinnaung. After him are Agnes of France, Byzantine Empress, Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine, Al-Wathiq, Erhard Heiden, Labarna I, and Gabriel Narutowicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, James Brooke ranks 13. Before him are Maria Anna of Savoy, Gottfried Semper, Fyodor Tyutchev, Albrecht von Roon, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, and Flora Tristan. After him are Maria Teresa of Savoy, Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, Ferenc Deák, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, and Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville. Among people deceased in 1868, James Brooke ranks 12. Before him are Mongkut, William T. G. Morton, August Schleicher, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, David Brewster, and Mihailo Obrenović. After him are James Mayer de Rothschild, Adalbert Stifter, Okita Sōji, Franz Berwald, Tewodros II, and Christian Friedrich Schönbein.

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In India

Among people born in India, James Brooke ranks 118 out of 1,493. Before him are Dadabhai Naoroji (1825), Pervez Musharraf (1943), Vinoba Bhave (1895), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815), Namdev (1270), and Jyotirao Phule (1827). After him are Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), Sushruta (-620), Bharata Muni (-1000), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), and Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, James Brooke ranks 34. Before him are Maharana Pratap (1540), Razia Sultana (1205), Bindusara (-320), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924), Dadabhai Naoroji (1825), and Pervez Musharraf (1943). After him are Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), Mamnoon Hussain (1940), Pranab Mukherjee (1935), Chandra Shekhar Azad (1906), and Pratibha Patil (1934).

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