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Mamata Banerjee

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Mamata Banerjee (Bengali pronunciation: [mɔmot̪a bɔnd̪ːopad̪d̪ʱae̯] ; born 5 January 1955) is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 20 May 2011, the first woman to hold the office. Having served multiple times as a Union Cabinet Minister, Mamata Banerjee became the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the first time in 2011. She founded the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) in 1998 after separating from the Indian National Congress, and became its second chairperson later in 2001. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mamata Banerjee has received more than 9,917,564 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Mamata Banerjee is the 12,748th most popular politician (up from 13,431st in 2019), the 483rd most popular biography from India (up from 524th in 2019) and the 153rd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mamata Banerjee ranks 12,748 out of 19,576Before her are Ernest Courtot de Cissey, Martin Mutschmann, Faustina, Nils Edén, Domenico Morosini, and Germanos III of Old Patras. After her are Anaxander, Jovan Ristić, Bas of Bithynia, Tariq al-Hashimi, Zoe Zaoutzaina, and Rainer Barzel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Mamata Banerjee ranks 207Before her are Cai Qi, Huh Jung-moo, Edinho, Claudio Gugerotti, Bambi Woods, and Mia Couto. After her are DJ Kool Herc, Mísia, Reba McEntire, Petr Aven, Giannina Facio, and Enzo Ghinazzi.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mamata Banerjee ranks 483 out of 1,861Before her are Rajaram I (1670), Balaji Vishwanath (1662), Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884), Mahadev Desai (1892), Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886), and Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889). After her are Somnath Sharma (1923), Sharad Pawar (1940), Harish-Chandra (1923), Om Puri (1950), Arundhati Roy (1961), and Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Mamata Banerjee ranks 153Before her are Chand Bibi (1550), Amrit Kaur (1889), Harihara I (1336), Rajaram I (1670), Balaji Vishwanath (1662), and Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884). After her are Sharad Pawar (1940), Kumaragupta I (400), Balaji Baji Rao (1720), Surendranath Banerjee (1848), H. D. Deve Gowda (1933), and K. Sivan (1957).