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Navi Pillay

1941 - Today

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Navanethem "Navi" Pillay (born 23 September 1941) is a South African jurist who served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. A South African of Indian Tamil origin, Pillay was the first non-white woman judge of the High Court of South Africa. She has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Navi Pillay has received more than 287,144 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Navi Pillay is the 69th most popular lawyer (down from 46th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 66th in 2019) and the most popular South African Lawyer.

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  • 55.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Navi Pillay ranks 69 out of 136. Before her are Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., James B. Donovan, Abdulqawi Yusuf, William Rehnquist, John Selden, and Koen Lenaerts. After her are Wendell Willkie, Henry de Bracton, Lawrence Lessig, Merrick Garland, Mercedes Comaposada, and Michael Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Navi Pillay ranks 387. Before her are Jacob Nena, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Klaus Bonsack, Valeri Zolotukhin, Kaspar Villiger, and Neil Aspinall. After her are Andrei Smirnov, Pascoal Mocumbi, Peter Bonetti, Ole Ritter, Margaret Price, and Mario Perniola.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Navi Pillay ranks 104 out of 454. Before her are Ted Moore (1914), Peter de Klerk (1935), Jan de Klerk (1903), Mpande kaSenzangakhona (1798), Sid Atkinson (1901), and Jim Fouché (1898). After her are Trevor Rabin (1954), Max Gluckman (1911), David Bailie (1937), Ted Grant (1913), Steve Nash (1974), and Hugh Masekela (1939).

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Among LAWYERS In South Africa

Among lawyers born in South Africa, Navi Pillay ranks 1. 

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