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P. V. Narasimha Rao

1921 - 2004

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Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June 1921 – 23 December 2004) was an Indian lawyer, statesman, and politician from the Congress Party who served as the prime minister of India from 1991 to 1996. He was the first person from South India and second person from a non-Hindi speaking background to be the prime minister. He is especially known for introducing various liberal reforms to India to rescue the country from going towards bankruptcy during the economic crisis of 1991. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of P. V. Narasimha Rao has received more than 7,149,681 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). P. V. Narasimha Rao is the 8,438th most popular politician (up from 8,518th in 2019), the 286th most popular biography from India (down from 273rd in 2019) and the 96th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, P. V. Narasimha Rao ranks 8,438 out of 19,576. Before him are Vladislav I of Wallachia, Võ Chí Công, Eduard Strasburger, Berdi Beg, David Trimble, and Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans. After him are Pak Song-chol, King Yi of Zhou, Taspar Qaghan, Ahmed Abdallah, Koca Davud Pasha, and Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, P. V. Narasimha Rao ranks 141. Before him are Géza Anda, Anne Golon, Wolfgang Lotz, Arthur Grumiaux, Malcolm Arnold, and Georgy Beregovoy. After him are Giovanni Benelli, Angelo Dundee, Robert Brown, Paddy Roy Bates, Louis Lachenal, and Francisco Morales Bermúdez. Among people deceased in 2004, P. V. Narasimha Rao ranks 97. Before him are Anthony Steffen, Mercedes McCambridge, Vasili Mitrokhin, Laura Betti, Umberto Agnelli, and René Laloux. After him are Jean Lefebvre, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Chiang Fang-liang, Helmut Griem, Gordon Cooper, and Walter Frentz.

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In India

Among people born in India, P. V. Narasimha Rao ranks 286 out of 1,861. Before him are Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), Hemachandra (1089), Shakuntala Devi (1929), Bismillah Khan (1916), and Margaret Murray (1863). After him are Alamgir II (1699), Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897), Mohammed Rafi (1924), Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), Rahul Sankrityayan (1893), and Hyder Ali (1720).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, P. V. Narasimha Rao ranks 96. Before him are Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918), C. N. Annadurai (1909), Birbal (1528), Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900), Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820), and Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910). After him are Alamgir II (1699), Hyder Ali (1720), Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), M. S. Swaminathan (1925), Nana Sahib (1824), and K. Kamaraj (1903).

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