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Jayalalithaa

1948 - 2016

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Jayaram Jayalalithaa (24 February 1948 – 5 December 2016) was an Indian politician and actress who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for more than fourteen years over six terms between 1991 and 2016. From 1 January 1988 to 5 December 2016, she was the 5th and longest-serving general secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), a Dravidian party whose cadre revered her as their "Amma" (Mother) and "Puratchi Thalaivi" (Revolutionary leader). Jayalalithaa rose to prominence as a leading film actress in the mid-1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jayalalithaa has received more than 9,040,223 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Jayalalithaa is the 7,542nd most popular politician (up from 11,799th in 2019), the 250th most popular biography from India (up from 424th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jayalalithaa ranks 7,542 out of 19,576. Before her are Aioulf, Boril of Bulgaria, 8th Dalai Lama, Hugh III of Cyprus, Enrique Bolaños, and Ragibagh Khan. After her are Catherine of Burgundy, Demades, Džemal Bijedić, Olof Björnsson, Beatrice of Vermandois, and Artystone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Jayalalithaa ranks 156. Before her are Dušan Bajević, Mitsuko Uchida, Miklós Németh, Theo Jansen, Michael Kamen, and Jan Hammer. After her are Frans de Waal, Bill Ward, Raymond Leo Burke, Marcia Barrett, Roger Williamson, and Tony Gatlif. Among people deceased in 2016, Jayalalithaa ranks 124. Before her are António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Thorbjörn Fälldin, Erich Rudorffer, Héctor Babenco, Alexandre Astruc, and Nimr al-Nimr. After her are Péter Esterházy, Andrew Grove, Goran Hadžić, Isao Tomita, Louis Pilot, and Greg Lake.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jayalalithaa ranks 250 out of 1,861. Before her are Mir Jafar (1691), Liaquat Ali Khan (1895), Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), Tansen (1493), and Motilal Nehru (1861). After her are Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913), Bal Thackeray (1926), Chandrakirti (600), Sanghamitta (-281), Farrukhsiyar (1685), and Eknath (1533).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Jayalalithaa ranks 83. Before her are Jahandar Shah (1661), Jahanara Begum (1614), Shantanu (null), Mir Jafar (1691), Liaquat Ali Khan (1895), and Motilal Nehru (1861). After her are Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913), Bal Thackeray (1926), Sanghamitta (-281), Farrukhsiyar (1685), Velu Nachiyar (1730), and Akbar II (1760).

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