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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 9,019,317 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Jayalalithaa is the 11,838th most popular politician (up from 12,014th in 2019), the 427th most popular biography from India (up from 448th in 2019) and the 141st most popular Indian Politician.

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  • 9.0M

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  • 49.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jayalalithaa ranks 11,838 out of 15,577. Before her are Ramush Haradinaj, Lucius Caecilius Metellus Calvus, King Kao of Zhou, Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Steingrímur Hermannsson, and Alice Milliat. After her are Wiglaf of Mercia, Adolf Ogi, Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg, Maithripala Sirisena, PU-Sarruma, and Ernest Shonekan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Jayalalithaa ranks 296. Before her are Heinz Flohe, Muse Watson, Joe Dallesandro, Manuel Bento, Davíð Oddsson, and Larry Carlton. After her are Anatoly Solovyev, Mykola Avilov, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Phylicia Rashad, Raúl Reyes, and Elaine Paige. Among people deceased in 2016, Jayalalithaa ranks 235. Before her are Leonid Zhabotinsky, Harry Wu, Signe Toly Anderson, Nate Thurmond, Giovanni Coppa, and Garry Shandling. After her are Harald Grønningen, Zubaida Tharwat, Tom Hayden, Zoltán Kocsis, Ioannis Grivas, and Ken Adam.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jayalalithaa ranks 427 out of 1,493. Before her are Sanjeev Kumar (1938), Jaimini (-390), M. S. Swaminathan (1925), Jai Singh II (1688), Kumar Sanu (1957), and Guru Har Krishan (1656). After her are Nirmala Srivastava (1923), Kamala Nehru (1899), Krishan Chander (1914), Nagarjun (1911), Fathima Beevi (1927), and Arundhati Roy (1961).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Jayalalithaa ranks 141. Before her are Jaswant Singh (1938), Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884), C. N. Annadurai (1909), Prince Vijaya (-543), Sucheta Kriplani (1908), and M. S. Swaminathan (1925). After her are Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), Bhagwan Das (1869), Balaji Baji Rao (1720), Venkaiah Naidu (1949), Shuja-ud-Daula (1732), and Muhammad Azam Shah (1653).

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