SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Neerja Bhanot

1963 - 1986

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Neerja Bhanot (7 September 1963 – 5 September 1986) was an Indian flight purser. On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers onboard Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked by four Palestinian terrorists from the Abu Nidal Organization after it made a stopover at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. Around 17 hours into the standoff, after she opened an emergency exit door and began helping passengers escape from the plane, Neerja was shot and killed by the hijackers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Neerja Bhanot has received more than 10,515,710 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Neerja Bhanot is the 528th most popular social activist (down from 426th in 2019), the 679th most popular biography from India (down from 511th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Neerja Bhanot ranks 528 out of 840. Before her are Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King Sr., Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Doina Cornea, and Ramdas Gandhi. After her are Dimitrana Ivanova, Wolfe Tone, Manilal Gandhi, Entisar Elsaeed, Prudencia Ayala, and Osman Kavala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Neerja Bhanot ranks 309. Before her are John Powell, Randy Johnson, Guido Imbens, Fernando Haddad, Walter Casagrande, and Sam Lloyd. After her are Ha-Joon Chang, John Levén, Cuca, Rick Allen, Tanju Çolak, and Michael Beach. Among people deceased in 1986, Neerja Bhanot ranks 224. Before her are Leona Woods, Noboru Terada, Ramón Alberto Villaverde, Enrique Tierno Galván, Volodymyr Pravyk, and Samuel Zauber. After her are Ria Baran, Olaf Hoffsbakken, Tsendiin Damdinsüren, Dan Pagis, Paul Costello, and Blanche Sweet.

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In India

Among people born in India, Neerja Bhanot ranks 679 out of 1,861. Before her are Zeenat Aman (1951), Asaf-ud-Daula (1748), Anuradha Paudwal (1954), Joseph Coutts (1945), Ali Akbar Khan (1922), and Ardeshir Irani (1886). After her are Kareena Kapoor (1980), Manilal Gandhi (1892), Spike Milligan (1918), Ashok Kumar (1911), Begum Akhtar (1914), and Freida Pinto (1984).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Neerja Bhanot ranks 42. Before her are Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878), Shivakumara Swami (1907), Charu Majumdar (1918), Ela Bhatt (1933), Har Dayal (1884), and Medha Patkar (1954). After her are Manilal Gandhi (1892), Veerappan (1952), Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), Usha Mehta (1920), Jamnalal Bajaj (1889), and Nirmala Deshpande (1929).

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