RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Rukhmabai

1864 - 1955

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Rukhmabai (22 November 1864 – 25 September 1955) was an Indian physician and feminist. She is best known for being one of the first practicing women doctors in colonial India (first one being Dr. Kadambini Ganguly who started practicing in 1886) as well as being involved in a landmark legal case involving her marriage as a child bride between 1884 and 1888. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rukhmabai has received more than 926,835 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Rukhmabai is the 2,926th most popular religious figure (down from 2,551st in 2019), the 798th most popular biography from India (down from 651st in 2019) and the 54th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.95

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Rukhmabai ranks 2,926 out of 3,187. Before her are Catherine Booth, Charles Scicluna, Pedro López Quintana, Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, Aristobulus of Britannia, and Æthelberht II of East Anglia. After her are Paolo Pezzi, Joseph Serge Miot, Paulinus of York, Chibly Langlois, John Ribat, and Antoine Kambanda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Rukhmabai ranks 166. Before her are Jakob Emanuel Lange, George Hillyard, Tully Marshall, Alice Davenport, Anna Golubkina, and Cosmo Gordon Lang. After her are Emine Semiye Önasya, Antonín Sova, W. H. R. Rivers, Frank Chapman, Jakob Jakobsen, and Oscar Baumann. Among people deceased in 1955, Rukhmabai ranks 158. Before her are Georges Johin, Major Ritchie, Arthur Shaw, George van Rossem, Nick Winter, and John Hodiak. After her are John Fenning, David Carstens, James Jones, S. Z. Sakall, Harold Walden, and Pentti Haanpää.

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In India

Among people born in India, Rukhmabai ranks 798 out of 1,861. Before her are Arjun Kapoor (1985), Michael Bates (1920), Asrani (1940), Amol Palekar (1944), Pinarayi Vijayan (1945), and Parkash Singh Badal (1927). After her are Tarsem Singh (1961), Johnny Lever (1957), Sharat Saxena (1950), Shobhna Samarth (1916), Kapil Dev (1959), and R. K. Laxman (1921).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Rukhmabai ranks 54. Before her are Oswald Gracias (1944), Nirmala Joshi (1934), Joseph Coutts (1945), Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928), Chandramukhi Basu (1860), and Wahiduddin Khan (1925). After her are Simon Pimenta (1920), Baselios Cleemis (1959), Ravi Zacharias (1946), Varkey Vithayathil (1927), Filipe Neri Ferrão (1953), and Joseph Parecattil (1912).

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