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Nirmala Sitharaman

1959 - Today

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Nirmala Sitharaman (born 18 August 1959) is an Indian economist, politician and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) serving as the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs of the Government of India since 2019. She is a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, representing Karnataka since 2016 and previously represented Andhra Pradesh from 2014 to 2016. Sitharaman previously served as the 28th Defence Minister from 2017 to 2019, thereby becoming India's second female defence minister and the second female finance minister after Indira Gandhi, and the first full-time female minister to hold each of those portfolios. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nirmala Sitharaman has received more than 11,711,153 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Nirmala Sitharaman is the 15,703rd most popular politician (down from 15,518th in 2019), the 723rd most popular biography from India (up from 739th in 2019) and the 207th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nirmala Sitharaman ranks 15,703 out of 19,576. Before her are William Bradford, Ariobarzanes II of Cius, Bart De Wever, Ashur-shaduni, Bharrat Jagdeo, and Bridei I. After her are Rita Sargsyan, Franco Marini, Jonas Vileišis, Joan Röell, Bezalel Smotrich, and Galina Shamrai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Nirmala Sitharaman ranks 337. Before her are Stanislaw Tillich, Paul McGann, Charlie Murphy, Domiziana Giordano, Brilliant Dadashova, and Orlando Figes. After her are Sérgio da Rocha, Alexei Kasatonov, Michael Scott, Juan Antonio San Epifanio, Said Seyam, and Jeanette Winterson.

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In India

Among people born in India, Nirmala Sitharaman ranks 723 out of 1,861. Before her are S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940), Shyam Benegal (1934), P. T. Usha (1964), Feroz Khan (1939), Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), and Saeed Jaffrey (1929). After her are Peter Sarstedt (1941), John Abraham (1972), S. M. Krishna (1932), Usha Mehta (1920), Arunachalam Muruganantham (1961), and Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Nirmala Sitharaman ranks 207. Before her are Choudhry Rahmat Ali (1895), I. I. Chundrigar (1897), Paddy Ashdown (1941), Madhavrao I (1745), Naveen Patnaik (1946), and M. K. Stalin (1953). After her are S. M. Krishna (1932), Muiz ud din Bahram (null), Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan (1905), N. Chandrababu Naidu (1950), Yogi Adityanath (1972), and Subramanian Swamy (1939).

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