SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Rajendra K. Pachauri

1940 - 2020

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Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (20 August 1940 – 13 February 2020) was the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 2002 to 2015, during the fourth and fifth assessment cycles. Under his leadership the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 and delivered the Fifth Assessment Report, the scientific foundation of the Paris Agreement. He held the post from 2002 until his resignation in February 2015 after facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rajendra K. Pachauri has received more than 501,873 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Rajendra K. Pachauri is the 427th most popular social activist (down from 395th in 2019), the 513th most popular biography from India (down from 469th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Rajendra K. Pachauri ranks 427 out of 840. Before him are Eugene V. Debs, Iosif Grigulevich, Saalumarada Thimmakka, Afeni Shakur, Leonard Peltier, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. After him are Leona Vicario, Malala Yousafzai, Yacouba Sawadogo, Ōsugi Sakae, İbrahim Kaypakkaya, and Surya Sen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Rajendra K. Pachauri ranks 298. Before him are Grigory Kriss, Russell Banks, Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Tony Allen, Lainie Kazan, and Giacomo Bulgarelli. After him are Renato Pozzetto, William Cohen, Bill Medley, Viktor Savinykh, Brigitte Hamann, and Arthur Laffer. Among people deceased in 2020, Rajendra K. Pachauri ranks 327. Before him are Jack Sherman, Tony Allen, Guido Messina, Henri Richard, Paula Kelly, and Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma. After him are Leon Fleisher, Goyo Benito, Mirza Khazar, Luigi Simoni, Neda Arnerić, and Oskar Fischer.

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In India

Among people born in India, Rajendra K. Pachauri ranks 513 out of 1,861. Before him are H. D. Deve Gowda (1933), K. Sivan (1957), Meira Kumar (1945), Durgabai Deshmukh (1909), Islam Shah Suri (1510), and N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946). After him are Erick Avari (1952), Derek Prince (1915), Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (1923), Saint Alphonsa (1910), Kalyan Singh (1932), and Priyanka Chopra (1982).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Rajendra K. Pachauri ranks 33. Before him are Pingali Venkayya (1876), Madan Lal Dhingra (1883), Kamala Nehru (1899), Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886), Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928), and Saalumarada Thimmakka (1911). After him are Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903), Sugathakumari (1934), Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878), Shivakumara Swami (1907), Charu Majumdar (1918), and Ela Bhatt (1933).

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