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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 878,985 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Rukhmabai is the 2,568th most popular religious figure (down from 2,142nd in 2019), the 655th most popular biography from India (down from 627th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Rukhmabai ranks 2,568 out of 2,238Before her are Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, Æthelberht II of East Anglia, Anthony Soter Fernandez, Maximos V Hakim, Luis Antonio Tagle, and Francesco Montenegro. After her are Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Władysław Rubin, Blase J. Cupich, Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz, Edoardo Menichelli, and Jose Tomas Sanchez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Rukhmabai ranks 151Before her are George Hillyard, George Nichols, Elinor Glyn, Edwin Hedley, Alexandre Levy, and Antonín Sova. After her are Charles Marion Russell, Emil Kellenberger, Frank Chapman, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Anna Haava, and Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet. Among people deceased in 1955, Rukhmabai ranks 140Before her are Martha Norelius, Carlos Dávila, Arthur Shaw, Dimitrios Maximos, William C. deMille, and David Carstens. After her are Robert E. Sherwood, Alice Joyce, Pentti Haanpää, John Hodiak, Matthew Henson, and S. Z. Sakall.

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In India

Among people born in India, Rukhmabai ranks 655 out of 1,493Before her are Spike Milligan (1918), Rambhadracharya (1950), Godfrey Brown (1915), Jasraj (1930), Tarsem Singh (1961), and Ram Vilas Paswan (1946). After her are Sharman Joshi (1979), Shivakumara Swami (1907), Jagjit Singh (1941), Arunachalam Muruganantham (1961), Surekha Sikri (1945), and Aruna Irani (1946).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Rukhmabai ranks 51Before her are Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), Roberto de Nobili (1577), Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (1924), Joseph Coutts (1945), Nirmala Joshi (1934), and Telesphore Toppo (1939). After her are Baselios Cleemis (1959), Oswald Gracias (1944), Ravi Zacharias (1946), Wahiduddin Khan (1925), Simon Pimenta (1920), and Chandramukhi Basu (1860).