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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Nirmala Joshi

1934 - 2015

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Maria Nirmala Joshi (23 July 1934 – 23 June 2015) was an Indian religious sister who succeeded Nobel laureate Mother Teresa as the head of the Missionaries of Charity and expanded the movement overseas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nirmala Joshi has received more than 368,987 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Nirmala Joshi is the 2,518th most popular religious figure (down from 1,975th in 2019), the 611th most popular biography from India (down from 471st in 2019) and the 49th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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  • 370k

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  • 44.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Nirmala Joshi ranks 2,518 out of 2,238Before her are Hermann Volk, Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn, Marek Jędraszewski, Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Eulogius of Alexandria, and Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. After her are Solomon Schechter, Daniel Sturla, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Nicetas I of Constantinople, Sumuel, and Vincent Nichols.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Nirmala Joshi ranks 388Before her are James Drury, Birutė Kalėdienė, Evgeny Vladimirovich Chetvergov, Gérard Latortue, Cedar Walton, and Roy Kinnear. After her are Orrin Hatch, Hans-Emil Schuster, Diana Der Hovanessian, Jimmy Garrison, Britt Strandberg, and Anne Osborn Krueger. Among people deceased in 2015, Nirmala Joshi ranks 332Before her are Herberto Hélder, Allen Toussaint, Jouko Törmänen, Pál Várhidi, Rakhat Aliyev, and Zhanna Yorkina. After her are David Canary, Verne Gagne, Andy White, Saeed Jaffrey, Haskell Wexler, and Bengt Berndtsson.

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In India

Among people born in India, Nirmala Joshi ranks 611 out of 1,493Before her are Randhir Kapoor (1947), Ismat Chughtai (1915), Vijay Amritraj (1953), Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), C. R. Rao (1920), and Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874). After her are B. V. Doshi (1927), Jeannette Altwegg (1930), Saeed Jaffrey (1929), Uttam Kumar (1926), Shabana Azmi (1950), and Dimple Kapadia (1957).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Nirmala Joshi ranks 49Before her are Saint Alphonsa (1910), Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805), Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), Roberto de Nobili (1577), Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (1924), and Joseph Coutts (1945). After her are Telesphore Toppo (1939), Rukhmabai (1864), Baselios Cleemis (1959), Oswald Gracias (1944), Ravi Zacharias (1946), and Wahiduddin Khan (1925).