New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

POLITICIAN

Ravi Shankar Prasad

1954 - Today

Photo of Ravi Shankar Prasad

Icon of person Ravi Shankar Prasad

Ravi Shankar Prasad (born 30 August 1954) is an Indian politician and lawyer, from the Bharatiya Janata Party. A Member of Parliament since 2000, first in the Rajya Sabha (2000–2019) and then in the Lok Sabha (since 2019), Prasad has served as Union Minister multiple times: As Minister of State, he served in the ministries of Coal (2001–2003), Law and Justice (2002–2003), and Information and Broadcasting (2003–2004) under Atal Bihari Vajpayee's premiership; as Cabinet Minister, he held the Law and Justice (2014, 2016–2021), Communications (2014–2016, 2019–2021), and Electronics and Information Technology (2014–2021) portfolios under Narendra Modi's premiership. His term as Union Minister was marked with the repeal of 1500 archaic laws, the landmark resolution of the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi dispute, handling of litigation over the purchase of Rafale fighter planes, and digitization of 15000 trial courts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ravi Shankar Prasad has received more than 1,745,181 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ravi Shankar Prasad is the 16,830th most popular politician (down from 14,851st in 2019), the 946th most popular biography from India (down from 800th in 2019) and the 246th most popular Indian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 34.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ravi Shankar Prasads by language


Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ravi Shankar Prasad ranks 16,830 out of 15,577. Before him are Laura Kelly, Yariv Levin, Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide, Bobby Rush, Jutta Leerdam, and Edwin Edwards. After him are Bill Walker, Sam Brownback, Doina Ignat, Conrad Black, Dominic Cummings, and Tamar Zandberg.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ravi Shankar Prasad ranks 602. Before him are Hidehiko Shimizu, Gregory C. Johnson, Phil Thompson, Huda Zoghbi, Brigitte Rohde, and Mallika Sarabhai. After him are John O'Hurley, Willi Wülbeck, Ken Olin, Julio César Jiménez, Sandie Jones, and Toninho Moura.

Others Born in 1954

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In India

Among people born in India, Ravi Shankar Prasad ranks 946 out of 1,493. Before him are Malaika Arora (1973), Sohail Khan (1970), Shraddha Kapoor (1987), Sonu Nigam (1973), David Dhawan (1955), and Mallika Sarabhai (1954). After him are Raveena Tandon (1974), Vikram (1966), Daler Mehndi (1967), Gulshan Grover (1955), Sarojini Sahoo (1956), and Basu Chatterjee (1930).

Others born in India

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Ravi Shankar Prasad ranks 246. Before him are J. P. Nadda (1960), Manohar Parrikar (1955), Asaduddin Owaisi (1969), Vikas Swarup (1961), Om Birla (1962), and Pawan Kumar Chamling (1950). After him are Raman Singh (1952), Rabri Devi (1956), Manik Sarkar (1949), Navjot Singh Sidhu (1963), Salman Khurshid (1953), and Ahmed Patel (1949).

Indian born Politicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Twitter Activity

  • DatawheelCL