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Jigme Wangchuck

1905 - 1952

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Jigme Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་དབང་ཕྱུག, Wylie: ’jigs med dbang phyug; 1905 – 30 March 1952) was the (Dzongkha འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གཉིས་པ) 2nd Druk Gyalpo or king of Bhutan from 26 August 1926, until his death. He pursued legal and infrastructural reform during his reign. Bhutan continued to maintain almost complete isolation from the outside world during this period; its only foreign relations were with the British Raj in India, under which Bhutan was a protected state. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jigme Wangchuck has received more than 344,275 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Jigme Wangchuck is the 7,451st most popular politician (down from 5,981st in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Bhutan and the 4th most popular Bhutanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jigme Wangchuck ranks 7,451 out of 19,576. Before him are Jia Chong, Louis, King of Sicily, Mauregatus of Asturias, Neferkara I, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, and Krakus. After him are Efim Geller, Salonia Matidia, Aldona of Lithuania, Boris Trajkovski, Marcus Caecilius Metellus, and Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Jigme Wangchuck ranks 94. Before him are Ludwig Fischer, Gerhard Klopfer, Jean-Marie Villot, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Myrna Loy, and Mikio Naruse. After him are Pierre Klossowski, Jacinto Quincoces, Natalia Pavlovna Paley, George Kelly, Nihal Atsız, and Gertrude Ederle. Among people deceased in 1952, Jigme Wangchuck ranks 54. Before him are William Fox, Luigi Fagioli, Solomiya Krushelnytska, Henri Winkelman, Sameera Moussa, and Efim Bogoljubov. After him are Kenwa Mabuni, Otto Dietrich, Yitzhak Sadeh, Louise d'Orléans, Władysław Strzemiński, and Georgy Shpagin.

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In Bhutan

Among people born in Bhutan, Jigme Wangchuck ranks 4 out of 17. Before him are Ugyen Wangchuck (1862), Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (1929), and Jigme Singye Wangchuck (1955). After him are Lotay Tshering (1969), Jigme Thinley (1952), Tshering Tobgay (1965), Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (1961), Sangay Ngedup (1953), Jetsun Pema (1990), Khandu Wangchuk (1950), and Kunzang Choden (1952).

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Among POLITICIANS In Bhutan

Among politicians born in Bhutan, Jigme Wangchuck ranks 4. Before him are Ugyen Wangchuck (1862), Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (1929), and Jigme Singye Wangchuck (1955). After him are Lotay Tshering (1969), Jigme Thinley (1952), Tshering Tobgay (1965), Sangay Ngedup (1953), and Khandu Wangchuk (1950).

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