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S. R. Nathan

1924 - 2016

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Sellapan Ramanathan ( ; 3 July 1924 – 22 August 2016), often known as S. R. Nathan, was a Singaporean politician and civil servant who served as the sixth president of Singapore between 1999 and 2011. Nathan secured a in an uncontested walkover due to ineligible candidates in both 1999 presidential election and 2005 presidential election. He was the longest-serving president in Singapore's history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of S. R. Nathan has received more than 995,319 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). S. R. Nathan is the 9,180th most popular politician (down from 8,952nd in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Singapore and the 7th most popular Singaporean Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, S. R. Nathan ranks 9,180 out of 15,577Before him are Allectus, Pribislav of Mecklenburg, Danilo Medina, Anwon of Goguryeo, Garret Hobart, and Đinh Bộ Lĩnh. After him are Fernando I, Duke of Braganza, Ernest of Bavaria, Stanisław Kania, Herman Wrangel, Ignaz Seipel, and Ioannis Palaiokrassas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, S. R. Nathan ranks 161Before him are David Cox, Lubomír Štrougal, M. Karunanidhi, Franco Basaglia, Johannes Mario Simmel, and Max Roach. After him are Gevork Vartanian, Haim Bar-Lev, Ken Tyrrell, Charles Bachman, Claude Lefort, and Alice Babs. Among people deceased in 2016, S. R. Nathan ranks 164Before him are Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, Arthur Hiller, Roger Y. Tsien, Ilse Aichinger, Mahasweta Devi, and Jean-Baptiste Bagaza. After him are Marc Riboud, Silvio Gazzaniga, Guido Westerwelle, Lola Novaković, Jay Wright Forrester, and Bill Mollison.

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In Singapore

Among people born in Singapore, S. R. Nathan ranks 7 out of 35Before him are Lee Kuan Yew (1923), Halimah Yacob (1954), Lee Hsien Loong (1952), Parameswara (1344), Goh Chok Tong (1941), and Tony Tan (1940). After him are Vanessa-Mae (1978), Wee Kim Wee (1915), Ong Teng Cheong (1936), Benjamin Sheares (1907), Julia Nickson (1958), and Leslie Charteris (1907).

Among POLITICIANS In Singapore

Among politicians born in Singapore, S. R. Nathan ranks 7Before him are Lee Kuan Yew (1923), Halimah Yacob (1954), Lee Hsien Loong (1952), Parameswara (1344), Goh Chok Tong (1941), and Tony Tan (1940). After him are Wee Kim Wee (1915), Benjamin Sheares (1907), Ho Ching (1953), Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (1952), and David Marshall (1908).