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S. M. Krishna

1932 - 2024

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Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna (1 May 1932 – 10 December 2024) was an Indian politician who served as Minister of External Affairs of India from 2009 to October 2012. He was the 10th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1999 to 2004 and the 19th Governor of Maharashtra from 2004 to 2008. S. M. Krishna served as the Speaker of the Karnataka Vidhana Soudha from December 1989 to January 1993. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of S. M. Krishna has received more than 1,333,008 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). S. M. Krishna is the 15,777th most popular politician (up from 16,339th in 2019), the 726th most popular biography from India (up from 857th in 2019) and the 208th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, S. M. Krishna ranks 15,777 out of 19,576Before him are Miriam A. Ferguson, Jón Magnússon, Orrin Hatch, Priscilla Cooper Tyler, Tytila of East Anglia, and Edmund Ho. After him are Rædwulf of Northumbria, Joe Torre, Kristján Jónsson, Jules de Burlet, Augusto Santos Silva, and Mamady Doumbouya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, S. M. Krishna ranks 429Before him are Christopher Lasch, Noël Milarew Odingar, Jiří Havlis, Robert H. Dennard, Therese Zenz, and Abby Dalton. After him are Yasutomi Nishizuka, Kiril Rakarov, Roger Dumas, Neil Bartlett, Steve Franken, and Milunka Lazarević.

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In India

Among people born in India, S. M. Krishna ranks 726 out of 1,861Before him are Feroz Khan (1939), Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), Saeed Jaffrey (1929), Nirmala Sitharaman (1959), Peter Sarstedt (1941), and John Abraham (1972). After him are Usha Mehta (1920), Arunachalam Muruganantham (1961), Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874), Sharman Joshi (1979), Charles Sturt (1795), and Muiz ud din Bahram (null).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, S. M. Krishna ranks 208Before him are I. I. Chundrigar (1897), Paddy Ashdown (1941), Madhavrao I (1745), Naveen Patnaik (1946), M. K. Stalin (1953), and Nirmala Sitharaman (1959). After him are Muiz ud din Bahram (null), Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan (1905), N. Chandrababu Naidu (1950), Yogi Adityanath (1972), Subramanian Swamy (1939), and Sumitra Mahajan (1943).