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Palden Thondup Namgyal

1923 - 1982

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Palden Thondup Namgyal (Sikkimese: དཔལ་ལྡན་དོན་དྲུཔ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ; Wylie: dpal-ldan don-grub rnam-rgyal; 23 May 1923 – 29 January 1982) was the 12th and last Chogyal (king) of the Kingdom of Sikkim. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Palden Thondup Namgyal has received more than 523,465 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Palden Thondup Namgyal is the 13,688th most popular politician (up from 13,695th in 2019), the 551st most popular biography from India (down from 537th in 2019) and the 174th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Palden Thondup Namgyal ranks 13,688 out of 19,576. Before him are Mari Kiviniemi, Vistahm, Asharid-apal-Ekur, Moussa Koussa, Nicolás de Piérola, and Gérard Latortue. After him are Gheorghe Argeșanu, Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, Beornred of Mercia, Leopold of Styria, Milan Neralić, and Al Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Palden Thondup Namgyal ranks 294. Before him are Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg, N. T. Rama Rao, Geoff Duke, Paul Xuereb, Ladislav Fuks, and Sara Lidman. After him are Pierre Chaunu, John Pulman, Karl-Heinz Metzner, Juan Acuña, Stefan Bozhkov, and George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood. Among people deceased in 1982, Palden Thondup Namgyal ranks 176. Before him are Ludwig Bieberbach, Fernando Lamas, Allen Woodring, Nikolai Kamanin, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, and Raghunath Murmu. After him are Lightnin' Hopkins, Robert Havemann, Boris Andreyev, Tomás Romero Pereira, Hendrik Wade Bode, and Percy Williams.

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In India

Among people born in India, Palden Thondup Namgyal ranks 551 out of 1,861. Before him are Bhagwan Das (1869), Kumar Sanu (1957), Barry Hay (1948), Shuja-ud-Daula (1732), Pankaj Kapur (1954), and Raghunath Murmu (1905). After him are K. J. Yesudas (1940), Uttam Kumar (1926), Devika Rani (1908), Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (1872), Jeannette Altwegg (1930), and Margaret Abbott (1878).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Palden Thondup Namgyal ranks 174. Before him are Shivraj Singh Chouhan (1959), Jagjivan Ram (1908), Shahu I (1682), Vasundhara Raje (1953), Bhagwan Das (1869), and Shuja-ud-Daula (1732). After him are Margaret Abbott (1878), Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1937), Rahul Gandhi (1970), Sushma Swaraj (1952), Muhammad Azam Shah (1653), and Baji Rao II (1775).

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