SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Pingali Venkayya

1876 - 1963

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Pingali Venkayya (2 August 1876/8 – 4 July 1963) was an Indian freedom fighter, known for designing the initial version of the Indian National Flag. Apart from his role in the independence movement, Venkayya was a lecturer, author, geologist, educationalist, agriculturist, and a polyglot. Venkayya joined the British Indian Army at age 19 and served in South Africa during the Second Boer War (1899–1902). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pingali Venkayya has received more than 1,543,374 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Pingali Venkayya is the 381st most popular social activist (down from 337th in 2019), the 453rd most popular biography from India (down from 379th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Pingali Venkayya ranks 381 out of 840. Before him are Maria Nikiforova, Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy, Tatyana Baramzina, Marsha P. Johnson, Marie Popelin, and Germaine Tillion. After him are Anita Augspurg, Otto Warmbier, Ivan Bolotnikov, Claudette Colvin, Azucena Villaflor, and Alice Paul.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Pingali Venkayya ranks 115. Before him are Constantin von Economo, Rupert Mayer, Aaron Aaronsohn, Maurice Tourneur, Aino Ackté, and Ioannis Georgiadis. After him are Stephanos Christopoulos, Erhard Schmidt, Borisav Stanković, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Maria Ouspenskaya, and Alaiza Pashkevich. Among people deceased in 1963, Pingali Venkayya ranks 110. Before him are Pierre Blanchar, Erik Lundqvist, Vissarion Shebalin, Robert Kerr, Thoralf Skolem, and Vsevolod Ivanov. After him are Klára Dán von Neumann, József Nagy, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, John Farrow, Benny Moré, and Gustav Machatý.

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In India

Among people born in India, Pingali Venkayya ranks 453 out of 1,861. Before him are Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832), Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), Govind Ballabh Pant (1887), K. D. Jadhav (1926), Fathima Beevi (1927), and Fatima Sheikh (1831). After him are Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), Jaswant Singh (1938), Chand Bibi (1550), Firaq Gorakhpuri (1896), Nagarjun (1911), and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Pingali Venkayya ranks 27. Before him are Baba Amte (1914), M. N. Roy (1887), Bhikaiji Cama (1861), Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858), Udham Singh (1899), and Ram Manohar Lohia (1910). After him are Madan Lal Dhingra (1883), Kamala Nehru (1899), Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886), Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928), Saalumarada Thimmakka (1911), and Rajendra K. Pachauri (1940).

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