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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

1888 - 1975

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (; 5 September 1888 – 17 April 1975; natively Radhakrishnayya) was an Indian politician, philosopher and statesman who served as the second president of India from 1962 to 1967. He previously served as the first vice president of India from 1952 to 1962. He was the second ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1952. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan has received more than 9,999,825 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is the 856th most popular politician (up from 2,512th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from India (up from 79th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Indian Politician.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was a philosopher, scholar, and politician who is most famous for being the second president of India.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ranks 856 out of 15,577Before him are Aurangzeb, Kara Mustafa Pasha, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Farah Pahlavi, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Eleanor of Austria, Halfdan Ragnarsson, Nikolai Yezhov, and Kurt von Schleicher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ranks 7Before him are Heinz Guderian, Fernando Pessoa, T. E. Lawrence, Dale Carnegie, John Logie Baird, and José Raúl Capablanca. After him are Giorgio de Chirico, Otto Stern, Carl Schmitt, Nikolai Bukharin, Nestor Makhno, and Alexander I of Yugoslavia. Among people deceased in 1975, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ranks 13Before him are Ivo Andrić, Josephine Baker, Aristotle Onassis, Otto Skorzeny, Umm Kulthum, and Arnold J. Toynbee. After him are Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Mikhail Bakhtin, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Saint-John Perse, George Paget Thomson, and Josemaría Escrivá.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ranks 33 out of 1,493Before him are Sathya Sai Baba (1926), Kabir (1440), Adi Shankara (788), Valmiki (-80), Aryabhata (476), and Aurangzeb (1618). After him are Padmasambhava (717), Amartya Sen (1933), Mahavira (-599), Julie Christie (1940), Rani of Jhansi (1828), and Jahangir (1569).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ranks 11Before him are B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Indira Gandhi (1917), Shivaji (1627), Chandragupta Maurya (-340), Subhas Chandra Bose (1897), and Aurangzeb (1618). After him are Rani of Jhansi (1828), Jahangir (1569), Sariputta (-568), Mohammed Nadir Shah (1883), Harsha (590), and Tipu Sultan (1750).