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P. A. Sangma

1947 - 2016

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Purno Agitok Sangma (1 September 1947 – 4 March 2016) was an Indian politician who has served as the 4th Chief Minister of Meghalaya from 1988 to 1990 and the 11th Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998. He also served as a member of the Lok Sabha from Tura from 2014 to 2016, 1991 to 2008 and from 1977 to 1989 and the minister of 21st Information and Broadcasting in the Rao ministry from 1995 to 1996, founder of NPP and Co- founder of NCP. He was the candidate for the 2012 Indian presidential election, supported by BJP and AIADMK, however he lost to Congress politician Shri Pranab Mukherjee. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of P. A. Sangma has received more than 774,183 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. P. A. Sangma is the 17,370th most popular politician (down from 16,299th in 2019), the 934th most popular biography from India (down from 850th in 2019) and the 256th most popular Indian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 770k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of P. A. Sangmas by language

Over the past year P. A. Sangma has had the most page views in the with 90,420 views, followed by Hindi (7,176), and Simple English (4,682). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (158.67%), Arabic (28.05%), and Santali (22.93%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, P. A. Sangma ranks 17,370 out of 19,576. Before him are Domingos Simões Pereira, Sylvie Goulard, Rui Maria de Araújo, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Algirdas Šemeta, and Richard Seddon. After him are Gilles Simeoni, Trinidad Jiménez, Cleopa Msuya, Sato Kilman, Juanita M. Kreps, and Guillaume Soro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, P. A. Sangma ranks 801. Before him are John Ralston Saul, Mike DeWine, Táňa Fischerová, Hubert Ingraham, Tierno Monénembo, and Peter Persidis. After him are Dieter Riedel, Oliver Friggieri, Nicole Bricq, Tom Daschle, Eva Ström, and Steve Khan. Among people deceased in 2016, P. A. Sangma ranks 544. Before him are Daniel Willems, Everton Kempes dos Santos Gonçalves, Kitty Kallen, Joe Medicine Crow, Ilkka Hanski, and Nahed Hattar. After him are Yūko Mizutani, George Voinovich, Noel Neill, Christopher Zeeman, Ron Glass, and Marvin Kaplan.

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In India

Among people born in India, P. A. Sangma ranks 934 out of 1,861. Before him are Jamuna (1936), Chandrashekhar Agashe (1888), Zohra Sehgal (1912), Mary Kom (1983), Uma Bharti (1959), and Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932). After him are Nasir Hussain (1931), Rahat Indori (1950), Mandakini (1963), Nagarjuna (1959), Prabhas (1979), and Padma Subrahmanyam (1943).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, P. A. Sangma ranks 256. Before him are Nandini Satpathy (1931), Uddhav Thackeray (1960), V. K. Sasikala (1954), Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (1972), Asaf Ali (1888), and Uma Bharti (1959). After him are Sushilkumar Shinde (1941), Sikandar Jah (1768), Raman Singh (1952), Arun Shourie (1941), Leo Amery (1873), and Margaret Alva (1942).

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