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Shankar Dayal Sharma

1918 - 1999

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Shankar Dayal Sharma (; 19 August 1918 – 26 December 1999) was an Indian lawyer and politician from the state of Madhya Pradesh who served as the ninth president of India, from 1992 to 1997. Born in Bhopal, Sharma studied at Agra, Allahabad and Lucknow and received a doctorate in constitutional law from the University of Cambridge and was a bar-at-law from Lincoln's Inn and a Brandeis Fellow at Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shankar Dayal Sharma has received more than 1,789,537 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Shankar Dayal Sharma is the 7,040th most popular politician (up from 8,693rd in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from India (up from 262nd in 2019) and the 72nd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 7,040 out of 15,577Before him are Arete, Phaedon Gizikis, Friedrich Naumann, Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, Joseph Darnand, and Józef Cyrankiewicz. After him are Salitis, Ishpuini of Urartu, Ali Kafi, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon, and Ansprand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 93Before him are E. Howard Hunt, Huber Matos, Edwin G. Krebs, Anna Mani, Thomas Gordon, and Lo Wei. After him are Gara Garayev, Joseph Wiseman, Dora Ratjen, Cicely Saunders, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, and Kazuo Sakamaki. Among people deceased in 1999, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 76Before him are Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Sebastian Haffner, Ilmari Juutilainen, Igor Netto, Brion James, and Phaedon Gizikis. After him are Leon Štukelj, Yuri Knorozov, Kazuo Sakamaki, Maurice Couve de Murville, Joseph Heller, and Kisshomaru Ueshiba.

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In India

Among people born in India, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 227 out of 1,493Before him are Anna Mani (1918), Tilopa (928), Rajaraja I (947), Hemachandra (1089), Jamsetji Tata (1839), and Khaleda Zia (1945). After him are Tansen (1493), George Alencherry (1945), Inayat Khan (1882), Meher Baba (1894), Charan Singh (1902), and Guru Angad (1504).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 72Before him are Shah Alam II (1728), Ahilyabai Holkar (1725), Hyder Ali (1720), Henry McMahon (1862), Rajaraja I (947), and Khaleda Zia (1945). After him are Charan Singh (1902), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), Rani Durgavati (1524), Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (1556), Feroze Gandhi (1912), and Nizamuddin Auliya (1238).