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Ranjit Singh

1780 - 1839

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Ranjit Singh (13 November 1780 – 27 June 1839) was the founder and first maharaja of the Sikh Empire, in the northwest Indian subcontinent, ruling from 1801 until his death in 1839. Ranjit Singh survived smallpox in infancy but lost sight in his left eye. He fought his first battle alongside his father at age 10. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ranjit Singh has received more than 5,594,285 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Ranjit Singh is the 4,041st most popular politician (up from 4,293rd in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 22nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Pakistani Politician.

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  • 47

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  • 2.89

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  • 4.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ranjit Singh ranks 4,041 out of 19,576. Before him are Robert Badinter, Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Thrasamund, Shvarn, Paul Ryan, and Péter Medgyessy. After him are Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Qara Yusuf, Salam Fayyad, Piali Pasha, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and Sarduri II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Ranjit Singh ranks 9. Before him are Pauline Bonaparte, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Miloš Obrenović, Jules de Polignac, Charles Nodier, and Pierre-Jean de Béranger. After him are Jernej Kopitar, Sacagawea, Mary Somerville, Karl Nesselrode, Bernardino Rivadavia, and Georgios Karaiskakis. Among people deceased in 1839, Ranjit Singh ranks 6. Before him are Mahmud II, Frederick VI of Denmark, Caroline Bonaparte, Fernando Sor, and Friedrich Mohs. After him are William, Duke of Nassau, Princess Marie of Orléans, Pehr Henrik Ling, William Smith, Joseph Fesch, and Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Ranjit Singh ranks 18 out of 217. Before him are Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Porus (-400), Abdus Salam (1926), Asanga (300), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), and Har Gobind Khorana (1922). After him are Aga Khan III (1877), Imran Khan (1952), Dev Anand (1923), Guru Ram Das (1534), Manmohan Singh (1932), and Gulzarilal Nanda (1898).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Ranjit Singh ranks 8. Before him are Shah Jahan (1592), Shehbaz Sharif (1951), Benazir Bhutto (1953), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Porus (-400), and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928). After him are Aga Khan III (1877), Imran Khan (1952), Manmohan Singh (1932), Gulzarilal Nanda (1898), Arif Alvi (1949), and Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309).

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