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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 4,802,148 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Kiran Bedi is the 10,444th most popular politician (up from 11,917th in 2019), the 359th most popular biography from India (up from 439th in 2019) and the 121st most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kiran Bedi ranks 10,444 out of 15,577Before her are Walter de Silva, Jaime Lerner, Harri Holkeri, Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, Andranik Margaryan, and Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury. After her are King Lie of Zhou, Gebhard, Duke of Lorraine, Albert III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg, Odo I, Count of Orléans, Isaac Komnenos, and Pinhas Lavon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Kiran Bedi ranks 220Before her are George Dalaras, Julian Fellowes, Bernd Eichinger, Anders Arborelius, Dado Topić, and Andranik Margaryan. After her are Svetislav Pešić, Herman Rarebell, Elizabeth Warren, Lawrence Kasdan, Dick Nanninga, and Henning Jensen.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kiran Bedi ranks 359 out of 1,493Before her are Shashi Kapoor (1938), Kishore Kumar (1929), Rajesh Khanna (1942), Ashapurna Devi (1909), Sukhdev Thapar (1907), and Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1911). After her are Prakash Raj (1965), Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (700), Vichitravirya (null), Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832), Vidya Balan (1979), and Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Kiran Bedi ranks 121Before her are Rajnath Singh (1951), Kumaragupta I (400), Dara Shukoh (1615), Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931), Jacques Lauriston (1768), and Sukhdev Thapar (1907). After her are Vichitravirya (null), Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725), Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), Girija Prasad Koirala (1924), Surendranath Banerjee (1848), and Hemu (1501).

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