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Shankar Dayal Sharma

1918 - 1999

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Shankar Dayal Sharma (Hindi pronunciation: [ˈʃəŋkəɾ d̪əˈjaːl ˈʃəɾmaː] ; 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 1,919,100 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Shankar Dayal Sharma is the 8,175th most popular politician (down from 7,021st in 2019), the 272nd most popular biography from India (down from 224th in 2019) and the 90th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 8,175 out of 19,576. Before him are Adolf Schmal, Jeffrey Archer, Keisuke Okada, Brutus of Troy, Duke Louis of Württemberg, and Roman Malinovsky. After him are Emperor Sanjō, King Ling of Zhou, Smbat I of Armenia, Alexios II of Trebizond, August Hermann Francke, and William Joyce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 100. Before him are Ben Johnson, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Ajahn Chah, Ida Lupino, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, and Lo Wei. After him are Massimo Girotti, Kazu Naoki, Bebo Valdés, Ian Stevenson, Joseph Wiseman, and Aldo van Eyck. Among people deceased in 1999, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 84. Before him are Giant Baba, Michel Petrucciani, Peko Dapčević, Victor Mature, Alf Ramsey, and Sylvia Sidney. After him are Ilmari Juutilainen, Joseph Heller, David Ogilvy, Aldo van Eyck, Roy Chiao, and Karen Demirchyan.

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In India

Among people born in India, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 272 out of 1,861. Before him are M. Night Shyamalan (1970), Sridevi (1963), Swaminarayan (1781), Merle Oberon (1911), Tilopa (928), and Baji Rao I (1700). After him are C. N. Annadurai (1909), Dhirubhai Ambani (1932), Jaya Bachchan (1948), Birbal (1528), Bhupen Hazarika (1926), and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 90. Before him are Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913), Bal Thackeray (1926), Sanghamitta (-281), Farrukhsiyar (1685), Velu Nachiyar (1730), and Akbar II (1760). After him are C. N. Annadurai (1909), Birbal (1528), Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900), Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), and P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921).

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