1949 - Today
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, Kiran Bedi ranks 10,444 out of 15,577. Before 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.
1951 - Present
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 10,438
1937 - 2021
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 10,439
1937 - 2011
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 10,440
1648 - 1699
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 10,441
1949 - 2007
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 10,442
1563 - 1612
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 10,443
1949 - Present
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 10,444
400 BC - 369 BC
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 10,445
888 - 910
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 10,446
1373 - Present
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 10,447
780 - 834
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 10,448
1050 - Present
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 10,449
1904 - 1976
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 10,450
Among people born in 1949, Kiran Bedi ranks 220. Before 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.
1949 - Present
HPI: 51.85
Rank: 214
1949 - Present
HPI: 51.83
Rank: 215
1949 - 2011
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 216
1949 - Present
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 217
1949 - Present
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 218
1949 - 2007
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 219
1949 - Present
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 220
1949 - Present
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 221
1949 - Present
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 222
1949 - Present
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 223
1949 - Present
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 224
1949 - 2015
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 225
1949 - 2017
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 226
Among people born in India, Kiran Bedi ranks 359 out of 1,493. Before 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).
1938 - 2017
HPI: 51.77
Rank: 353
1929 - 1987
HPI: 51.76
Rank: 354
1942 - 2012
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 355
1909 - 1995
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 356
1907 - 1931
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 357
1911 - 1987
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 358
1949 - Present
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 359
1965 - Present
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 360
700 - 700
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 361
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 362
1832 - 1914
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 363
1979 - Present
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 364
1725 - 1775
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 365
Among politicians born in India, Kiran Bedi ranks 121. Before 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).
1951 - Present
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 115
400 - 455
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 116
1615 - 1659
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 117
1931 - 2008
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 118
1768 - 1828
HPI: 51.81
Rank: 119
1907 - 1931
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 120
1949 - Present
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 121
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 122
1725 - 1775
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 123
1892 - 1963
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 124
1924 - 2010
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 125
1848 - 1925
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 126
1501 - 1556
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 127