1876 - 1963
Pingali Venkayya (2 August 1876/8 – 4 July 1963) was an Indian freedom fighter. He was the designer of the flag on which the initial Indian National Flag was based. He was also a lecturer, author, geologist, educationalist, agriculturist, and a polyglot.At the age of 19, Venkayya had enrolled in the British Indian Army and was deployed to 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 1,422,217 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Pingali Venkayya is the 337th most popular social activist (up from 1,837th in 2019), the 382nd most popular biography from India (up from 400th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Indian Social Activist.
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Among social activists, Pingali Venkayya ranks 337 out of 538. Before him are Lucretia Mott, Hannie Schaft, Felix Manz, Amelia Bloomer, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, and Black Elk. After him are Aruna Asaf Ali, Muhammad Zaidan, François-Jean de la Barre, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Susannah Mushatt Jones, and Edna Parker.
1793 - 1880
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 331
1920 - 1945
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 332
1498 - 1527
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 333
1818 - 1894
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 334
1936 - Present
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 335
1863 - 1950
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 336
1876 - 1963
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 337
1909 - 1996
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 338
1948 - 2004
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 339
1745 - 1766
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 340
1963 - Present
HPI: 50.73
Rank: 341
1899 - 2016
HPI: 50.59
Rank: 342
1893 - 2008
HPI: 50.57
Rank: 343
Among people born in 1876, Pingali Venkayya ranks 100. Before him are Claude Farrère, Ivane Javakhishvili, Ahmad Qavam, Ioannis Georgiadis, Maria Ouspenskaya, and Hiroshi Yoshida. After him are Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, Heinrich Tessenow, Sibilla Aleramo, Friedrich Traun, Leopold von Wiese, and Maurice Tourneur. Among people deceased in 1963, Pingali Venkayya ranks 91. Before him are Maria Tănase, Richard Kohn, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Ivan Bek, and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz. After him are Margaret Murray, Sophus Nielsen, Vsevolod Ivanov, André Maschinot, Richard Oswald, and August Rei.
1876 - 1957
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 94
1876 - 1940
HPI: 51.83
Rank: 95
1876 - 1955
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 96
1876 - 1960
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 97
1876 - 1949
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 98
1876 - 1950
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 99
1876 - 1963
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 100
1876 - 1951
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 101
1876 - 1950
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 102
1876 - 1960
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 103
1876 - 1908
HPI: 50.59
Rank: 104
1876 - 1969
HPI: 50.40
Rank: 105
1876 - 1961
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 106
1913 - 1963
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 85
1888 - 1963
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 86
1889 - 1963
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 87
1892 - 1963
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 88
1909 - 1963
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 89
1890 - 1963
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 90
1876 - 1963
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 91
1863 - 1963
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 92
1888 - 1963
HPI: 50.88
Rank: 93
1895 - 1963
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 94
1903 - 1963
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 95
1880 - 1963
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 96
1886 - 1963
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 97
Among people born in India, Pingali Venkayya ranks 382 out of 1,493. Before him are Kadambini Ganguly (1861), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Mala Sinha (1936), Anil Kapoor (1956), Vallabha (1479), and R. K. Narayan (1906). After him are Margaret Murray (1863), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Aruna Asaf Ali (1909), Rishi Kapoor (1952), Hemu (1501), and M. F. Husain (1915).
1861 - 1923
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 376
1919 - 1971
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 377
1936 - Present
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 378
1956 - Present
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 379
1479 - 1531
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 380
1906 - 2001
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 381
1876 - 1963
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 382
1863 - 1963
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 383
1894 - 1950
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 384
1909 - 1996
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 385
1952 - 2020
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 386
1501 - 1556
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 387
1915 - 2011
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 388
Among social activists born in India, Pingali Venkayya ranks 24. Before him are M. N. Roy (1887), Baba Amte (1914), Harilal Gandhi (1888), Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858), Bhikaiji Cama (1861), and Ram Manohar Lohia (1910). After him are Aruna Asaf Ali (1909), Kamala Nehru (1899), Udham Singh (1899), Rajendra K. Pachauri (1940), Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928), and Har Dayal (1884).
1887 - 1954
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 18
1914 - 2008
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 19
1888 - 1948
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 20
1858 - 1962
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 21
1861 - 1936
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 22
1910 - 1967
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 23
1876 - 1963
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 24
1909 - 1996
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 25
1899 - 1936
HPI: 49.61
Rank: 26
1899 - 1940
HPI: 49.23
Rank: 27
1940 - 2020
HPI: 48.46
Rank: 28
1928 - 2016
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 29
1884 - 1939
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 30