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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 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, two days before her 23rd birthday. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Neerja Bhanot has received more than 10,267,130 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Neerja Bhanot is the 426th most popular social activist (down from 407th in 2019), the 515th most popular biography from India (up from 545th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Neerja Bhanot ranks 426 out of 538Before her are Nadia Murad, İbrahim Kaypakkaya, Har Dayal, Lucy Stone, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo. After her are Ruby Bridges, Jack Sheppard, David Reimer, Joseph Wresinski, Bagha Jatin, and Gunnar Sønsteby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Neerja Bhanot ranks 227Before her are Bernd Storck, Brendan Coyle, Dylan Walsh, Edie Falco, Mark Hughes, and Alessandro Safina. After her are Yann Martel, Dario Marianelli, Lajos Détári, Jon Turteltaub, Florence Parly, and Michael McElhatton. Among people deceased in 1986, Neerja Bhanot ranks 177Before her are Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Jaroslav Burgr, Ronald McNair, Thad Jones, Ludwig Biermann, and D. R. Kaprekar. After her are Lothar Bolz, Kunio Maekawa, Hyman G. Rickover, Floyd Gottfredson, Dominique Mbonyumutwa, and Vicente Trueba.

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In India

Among people born in India, Neerja Bhanot ranks 515 out of 1,493Before her are P. T. Usha (1964), Fauja Singh (1911), Har Dayal (1884), Sivaji Ganesan (1928), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), and Jayakanthan (1934). After her are Mayawati (1956), Kedarnath Singh (1934), Jamini Roy (1887), Gangubai Hangal (1913), Dara Singh (1928), and Balamani Amma (1909).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Neerja Bhanot ranks 31Before her are Aruna Asaf Ali (1909), Kamala Nehru (1899), Udham Singh (1899), Rajendra K. Pachauri (1940), Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928), and Har Dayal (1884). After her are Charu Majumdar (1918), Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878), Medha Patkar (1954), Ela Bhatt (1933), Manilal Gandhi (1892), and Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947).