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M. S. Swaminathan

1925 - 2023

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Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (7 August 1925 – 28 September 2023) was an Indian agronomist, geneticist, administrator and humanitarian. Swaminathan was a global leader of the green revolution. He has been called the main architect of the green revolution in India for his leadership and role in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of M. S. Swaminathan has received more than 2,825,456 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). M. S. Swaminathan is the 8,639th most popular politician (up from 11,685th in 2019), the 297th most popular biography from India (up from 420th in 2019) and the 100th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, M. S. Swaminathan ranks 8,639 out of 19,576. Before him are Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Émile Ollivier, Henry II, Duke of Guise, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, and Eurysthenes. After him are Neferkaure, François-Xavier Ortoli, Philip of Milly, Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, William Tolbert, and Karen Demirchyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, M. S. Swaminathan ranks 145. Before him are Art Pepper, René Moawad, Jean d'Ormesson, Roger Hanin, Jean Raspail, and Solomon Perel. After him are François-Xavier Ortoli, Klaus Roth, Silvana Pampanini, Giovanni Spadolini, Katherine MacGregor, and Ali Hassan Mwinyi. Among people deceased in 2023, M. S. Swaminathan ranks 204. Before him are Valentina Ponomaryova, Evelyn Fox Keller, Antonio Juliano, Niels Holst-Sørensen, Andre Braugher, and Solomon Perel. After him are Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Irina Miroshnichenko, Robert Hanssen, Karol J. Bobko, Dominique Colonna, and Viktor Mamatov.

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In India

Among people born in India, M. S. Swaminathan ranks 297 out of 1,861. Before him are Rahul Sankrityayan (1893), Hyder Ali (1720), M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), and Sarada Devi (1853). After him are Inayat Khan (1882), Nana Sahib (1824), Michael Radford (1946), Harilal Gandhi (1888), M. Karunanidhi (1924), and Savitri (1936).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, M. S. Swaminathan ranks 100. Before him are Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921), Alamgir II (1699), Hyder Ali (1720), and Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886). After him are Nana Sahib (1824), K. Kamaraj (1903), Zail Singh (1916), Chandra Shekhar (1927), Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), and Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921).

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