WRITER

Saroo Brierley

1981 - Today

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Saroo Brierley (born c. 1981) is an Indian-born Australian businessman and author who, at the age of five, was accidentally separated from his biological family. He was adopted out of India by an Australian couple but was reunited with his original family 25 years later after finding his hometown via Google Earth. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saroo Brierley has received more than 6,403,363 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Saroo Brierley is the 6,483rd most popular writer (down from 6,117th in 2019), the 943rd most popular biography from India (down from 888th in 2019) and the 125th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 6.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saroo Brierley ranks 6,483 out of 7,302. Before him are Fatou Diome, Mark Akenside, Sabine Baring-Gould, Marc Connelly, Rohinton Mistry, and Walter Besant. After him are Eva Ström, Renate Dorrestein, Arvi Pohjanpää, Volodymyr Vakulenko, Angus Wilson, and Gerbrand Bakker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Saroo Brierley ranks 275. Before him are Antonio López, Heurelho Gomes, Ross Marquand, Zlatan Muslimović, Marica Hase, and Damiano Cunego. After him are Federico Balzaretti, Mirel Rădoi, Tatiana Totmianina, Hawar Mulla Mohammed, Moran Atias, and Bakari Koné.

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In India

Among people born in India, Saroo Brierley ranks 943 out of 1,861. Before him are Rahat Indori (1950), Mandakini (1963), Nagarjuna (1959), Prabhas (1979), Padma Subrahmanyam (1943), and Rohinton Mistry (1952). After him are Silk Smitha (1960), Prakash Jha (1952), Sushilkumar Shinde (1941), Sikandar Jah (1768), Raman Singh (1952), and Gauhar Jaan (1873).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Saroo Brierley ranks 125. Before him are Mah Laqa Bai (1768), Fareed Zakaria (1964), Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938), Kaifi Azmi (1919), Rahat Indori (1950), and Rohinton Mistry (1952). After him are Geetanjali Shree (1957), Ali Sardar Jafri (1913), Nayantara Sahgal (1927), Bharati Mukherjee (1940), Toru Dutt (1856), and Krishna Hutheesing (1907).

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