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Kiran Bedi

1949 - Today

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Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is a former tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development. As a teenager, Bedi was crowned the national junior tennis champion in 1966. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kiran Bedi has received more than 5,088,485 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Kiran Bedi is the 11,227th most popular politician (down from 10,416th in 2019), the 408th most popular biography from India (down from 356th in 2019) and the 133rd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kiran Bedi ranks 11,227 out of 19,576. Before her are Thanin Kraivichien, Erik Gustaf Boström, Hans-Rudolf Merz, Marduk-apla-iddina I, Ashikaga Yoshizumi, and Moritz Leuenberger. After her are Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Porcina, Sviatoslav III of Vladimir, Publius Claudius Pulcher, Pascual Cervera y Topete, Claude Pompidou, and Decimus Junius Silanus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Kiran Bedi ranks 252. Before her are Niels Arestrup, John Madden, Conny Torstensson, Mustafa Denizli, Veronica Cartwright, and Jim Carroll. After her are Rob Cohen, Trevor Jones, Alex Higgins, Mari Alkatiri, Jean Petit, and Henning Jensen.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kiran Bedi ranks 408 out of 1,861. Before her are Joseph Vaz (1651), Suryakant Tripathi (1899), Malik Kafur (1250), Vidya Balan (1979), Sharmila Tagore (1944), and Anil Kapoor (1956). After her are Madhubala (1933), Debendranath Tagore (1817), Jeetendra (1942), Vichitravirya (null), R. K. Narayan (1906), and Idries Shah (1924).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Kiran Bedi ranks 133. Before her are Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), Iskander Mirza (1899), Fatima Jinnah (1893), B. D. Jatti (1912), Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931), and Malik Kafur (1250). After her are Vichitravirya (null), Man Singh I (1550), Prince Vijaya (-543), Hemu (1501), Guru Har Rai (1630), and Jacques Lauriston (1768).

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