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Rajendra Prasad

1884 - 1963

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Rajendra Prasad (3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963) was an Indian politician, lawyer, journalist and scholar who served as the first president of India from 1952 to 1962. He joined the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement and became a major leader from the region of Bihar. A supporter of Mahatma Gandhi, Prasad was imprisoned by British authorities during the Salt Satyagraha of 1930 and the Quit India movement of 1942. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rajendra Prasad has received more than 6,228,832 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Rajendra Prasad is the 2,328th most popular politician (down from 2,127th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from India (down from 73rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Indian Politician.

Rajendra Prasad was the first president of India, and he is most famous for the role he played in India's independence movement.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rajendra Prasad ranks 2,328 out of 19,576. Before him are Jehoahaz of Judah, Phalaris, Henry the Young King, Gustav Bauer, Jules Grévy, and Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg. After him are Cevdet Sunay, Peter, King of Hungary, Zvi Zamir, Psusennes I, William Wilberforce, and Jehoash of Israel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Rajendra Prasad ranks 29. Before him are Theodor Svedberg, Auguste Piccard, Vincent Auriol, Walther von Reichenau, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Emil Jannings. After him are Edward Sapir, Rudolf Bultmann, Leo Frank, Max Beckmann, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, and Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland. Among people deceased in 1963, Rajendra Prasad ranks 26. Before him are Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Herbert Spencer Gasser, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Thích Quảng Đức, Abd al-Karim Qasim, and Carmen Amaya. After him are Theodore von Kármán, Oleg Penkovsky, Jacques Hadamard, Richard Baer, Kurt Zeitzler, and Józef Gosławski.

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In India

Among people born in India, Rajendra Prasad ranks 83 out of 1,861. Before him are Maudgalyayana (-568), Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Sher Shah Suri (1486), Samudragupta (335), and Ramana Maharshi (1879). After him are Lawrence Durrell (1912), Nathuram Godse (1910), Pervez Musharraf (1943), Bindusara (-320), Pete Best (1941), and Ram Mohan Roy (1772).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Rajendra Prasad ranks 25. Before him are Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924), Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Rajiv Gandhi (1944), Maharana Pratap (1540), Sher Shah Suri (1486), and Samudragupta (335). After him are Pervez Musharraf (1943), Bindusara (-320), Ram Nath Kovind (1945), Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), Mohammed Nadir Shah (1883), and Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I (1671).

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