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Nitish Kumar

1951 - Today

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Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician who has been serving as the 22nd chief minister of Bihar since 22 February 2015, having previously held the office from 2005 to 2014 and for a short period in 2000. He is Bihar's longest serving chief minister whilst also holding the post for his 9th term. He is the leader of the Janata Dal (United). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nitish Kumar has received more than 6,858,230 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Nitish Kumar is the 10,701st most popular politician (up from 14,573rd in 2019), the 387th most popular biography from India (up from 615th in 2019) and the 126th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nitish Kumar ranks 10,701 out of 19,576Before him are Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia, Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, Kyuichi Tokuda, Marco Cornaro, Douglas Hyde, and Nataša Kandić. After him are Gungunum, Valdis Dombrovskis, Ahmed Aboutaleb, Bagyidaw, Theodora of Khazaria, and Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Nitish Kumar ranks 174Before him are Kathryn D. Sullivan, Isa Mustafa, Viktor Sukhorukov, Ivars Godmanis, Christopher Cross, and Slavica Đukić Dejanović. After him are Marcel Iureș, Chrissie Hynde, Charly García, Kazumi Takada, Geir Haarde, and Jacques Villeret.

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In India

Among people born in India, Nitish Kumar ranks 387 out of 1,861Before him are Rani Padmini (null), The Great Khali (1972), Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863), Maithili Sharan Gupt (1886), Ramananda (1400), and Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858). After him are Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), Sumitranandan Pant (1900), Iskander Mirza (1899), Sundar Pichai (1972), Mala Sinha (1936), and Rekha (1954).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Nitish Kumar ranks 126Before him are Skandagupta (500), Rana Sanga (1482), Girija Prasad Koirala (1924), Dara Shukoh (1615), Gupta (240), and Rani Padmini (null). After him are Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), Iskander Mirza (1899), Fatima Jinnah (1893), B. D. Jatti (1912), Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931), and Malik Kafur (1250).