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Sarla Thakral

1914 - 2008

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Sarla Thukral (8 August 1914 – 15 March 2008) was among the first Indian women to fly aircraft. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sarla Thakral has received more than 411,808 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Sarla Thakral is the 47th most popular pilot (up from 1,389th in 2019), the 498th most popular biography from India (up from 608th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Pilot.

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  • 410k

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  • 47.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Sarla Thakral ranks 47 out of 48Before her are Gotthard Handrick, Vladimir Kokkinaki, Anna Yegorova, Steponas Darius, Natalya Meklin, and Nikolai Kamanin. After her are Lotfia Elnadi, Jacqueline Cochran, Stasys Girėnas, Maryse Bastié, Wally Funk, and Hélène Boucher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Sarla Thakral ranks 236Before her are Fumio Hayasaka, Vincent J. McMahon, Wilhelm Hahnemann, William Gibson, Giuseppe Caprio, and Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr.. After her are Jyoti Basu, Hermínio de Brito, Johannes Virolainen, Ehrenfried Patzel, Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and Adolf Urban. Among people deceased in 2008, Sarla Thakral ranks 207Before her are Levy Mwanawasa, Norman Smith, William Gibson, Ricardo Infante, Heinz Kwiatkowski, and Rina Zaripova. After her are Neil Aspinall, Patrick Hillery, Tom Lantos, Ollie Johnston, Mustafa Khalil, and Gary Gygax.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sarla Thakral ranks 498 out of 1,493Before her are Hrithik Roshan (1974), Bachendri Pal (1954), Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928), Roberto de Nobili (1577), Rajkumar (1929), and Ramananda (1400). After her are John Frost (1912), Kamala Surayya (1934), Christian Zacharias (1950), Charles Gmelin (1872), Madhuri Dixit (1967), and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (1923).

Among PILOTS In India

Among pilots born in India, Sarla Thakral ranks 1