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M. Visvesvaraya

1861 - 1962

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Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (Moːkśguṇam Viśveśvarayya; 15 September 1861 – 12/14 April 1962), also referred to by his initials, MV, was an Indian civil engineer, administrator, and statesman, who served as the 19th Dewan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918. Visvesvaraya is regarded in India as one of the foremost civil engineers whose birthday, 15 September, is celebrated every year as Engineer's Day in India, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania. He is also often regarded as "the maker of modern Mysore". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of M. Visvesvaraya has received more than 4,563,366 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). M. Visvesvaraya is the 5,794th most popular politician (down from 5,196th in 2019), the 193rd most popular biography from India (down from 160th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, M. Visvesvaraya ranks 5,794 out of 19,576. Before him are William the Lion, George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Rómulo Betancourt, Hermann Billung, and Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy. After him are Ed Miliband, Yang Jia of Shang, Emperor Ninmyō, Enmebaragesi, Zhuge Dan, and Max Adler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, M. Visvesvaraya ranks 41. Before him are Henry Gantt, Walter Simons, Pierre Duhem, Michel Verne, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, and Dorothea Klumpke. After him are Stanislas de Guaita, Maurice Blondel, Jurji Zaydan, William C. Durant, Santiago Rusiñol, and Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Among people deceased in 1962, M. Visvesvaraya ranks 47. Before him are Dušan Simović, André Lhote, Aleksei Antonov, Princess Helen of Serbia, Vita Sackville-West, and Natalia Sedova. After him are Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg, Lei Feng, Gianna Beretta Molla, Hu Shih, Frank Borzage, and Thomas Mitchell.

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In India

Among people born in India, M. Visvesvaraya ranks 193 out of 1,861. Before him are Narayana Guru (1855), Kishore Kumar (1929), George Alencherry (1945), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), and Shilpa Shetty (1975). After him are Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Amrish Puri (1932), Hema Malini (1948), Andal (800), Kuvempu (1904), and Pushyamitra Shunga (-300).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, M. Visvesvaraya ranks 59. Before him are Mamnoon Hussain (1940), Lala Lajpat Rai (1865), Abdul Karim (1863), James Brooke (1803), Khaleda Zia (1945), and Ahilyabai Holkar (1725). After him are Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Pushyamitra Shunga (-300), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Feroze Gandhi (1912), Morarji Desai (1896), and Charan Singh (1902).

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