1889 - 1964
Jawaharlal Nehru ( NAY-roo or NEH-roo; Hindi: [ˈdʒəʋɑːɦəɾˈlɑːl ˈneːɦɾuː] ; juh-WAH-hurr-LAHL NE-hǝ-ROO; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, statesman, secular humanist, social democrat, and author who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a principal leader of the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India's independence in 1947, he served as the country's first prime minister for 16 years. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jawaharlal Nehru has received more than 24,337,649 page views. His biography is available in 137 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 134 in 2019). Jawaharlal Nehru is the 188th most popular politician (up from 305th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from India (up from 12th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Indian Politician.
Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India. He is most famous for his role in the struggle for Indian independence from British rule, and his subsequent attempts to modernize and secularize India.
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Among politicians, Jawaharlal Nehru ranks 188 out of 15,577. Before him are Kublai Khan, Alp Arslan, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Salman of Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump, and Leonidas I. After him are Louis the Pious, Caracalla, Salvador Allende, Klemens von Metternich, Titus, and Edward IV of England.
1215 - 1294
HPI: 78.17
Rank: 182
1029 - 1072
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 183
1741 - 1790
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 184
1935 - Present
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 185
1946 - Present
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 186
540 BC - 480 BC
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 187
1889 - 1964
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 188
778 - 840
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 189
188 - 217
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 190
1908 - 1973
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 191
1773 - 1859
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 192
41 - 81
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 193
1442 - 1483
HPI: 77.97
Rank: 194
Among people born in 1889, Jawaharlal Nehru ranks 5. Before him are Adolf Hitler, Charlie Chaplin, Martin Heidegger, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. After him are António de Oliveira Salazar, Jean Cocteau, Edwin Hubble, Anna Akhmatova, Arnold J. Toynbee, Ante Pavelić, and Vaslav Nijinsky. Among people deceased in 1964, Jawaharlal Nehru ranks 1. After him are Douglas MacArthur, Ian Fleming, Herbert Hoover, Paul of Greece, Rachel Carson, Norbert Wiener, James Franck, Alma Mahler, Gerhard Domagk, Victor Francis Hess, and Vasily Grossman.
1889 - 1945
HPI: 94.10
Rank: 1
1889 - 1977
HPI: 86.83
Rank: 2
1889 - 1976
HPI: 81.59
Rank: 3
1889 - 1951
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 4
1889 - 1964
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 5
1889 - 1970
HPI: 77.00
Rank: 6
1889 - 1963
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 7
1889 - 1953
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 8
1889 - 1966
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 9
1889 - 1975
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 10
1889 - 1959
HPI: 70.80
Rank: 11
1889 - 1950
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 12
1889 - 1964
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 1
1880 - 1964
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 2
1908 - 1964
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 3
1874 - 1964
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 4
1901 - 1964
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 5
1907 - 1964
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 6
1894 - 1964
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 7
1882 - 1964
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 8
1879 - 1964
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 9
1895 - 1964
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 10
1883 - 1964
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 11
1905 - 1964
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 12
Among people born in India, Jawaharlal Nehru ranks 10 out of 1,493. Before him are George Orwell (1903), Rajneesh (1931), Narendra Modi (1950), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Amitabh Bachchan (1942), and A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931). After him are Vivien Leigh (1913), Ramakrishna (1836), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Nagarjuna (150), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), and Rudyard Kipling (1865).
1903 - 1950
HPI: 81.47
Rank: 4
1931 - 1990
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 5
1950 - Present
HPI: 79.83
Rank: 6
1861 - 1941
HPI: 79.04
Rank: 7
1942 - Present
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 8
1931 - 2015
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 9
1889 - 1964
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 10
1913 - 1967
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 11
1836 - 1886
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 12
1891 - 1956
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 13
150 - 250
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 14
1887 - 1920
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 15
1865 - 1936
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 16
Among politicians born in India, Jawaharlal Nehru ranks 4. Before him are Ashoka (-304), Narendra Modi (1950), and A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931). After him are B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Indira Gandhi (1917), Shivaji (1627), Chandragupta Maurya (-340), Subhas Chandra Bose (1897), Aurangzeb (1618), Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888), and Rani of Jhansi (1828).
304 BC - 232 BC
HPI: 82.44
Rank: 1
1950 - Present
HPI: 79.83
Rank: 2
1931 - 2015
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 3
1889 - 1964
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 4
1891 - 1956
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 5
1917 - 1984
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 6
1627 - 1680
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 7
340 BC - 297 BC
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 8
1897 - 1945
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 9
1618 - 1707
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 10
1888 - 1975
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 11
1828 - 1858
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 12