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Shashi Tharoor

1956 - Today

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Shashi Tharoor (Malayalam pronunciation: [ʃɐʃi t̪ɐɾuːr], SHUH-shee thǝ-ROOR; born 9 March 1956) is a politician and public intellectual who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He is the present Chairman of the Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers. He was formerly an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and unsuccessfully ran for the post of Secretary-General in 2006. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shashi Tharoor has received more than 7,896,177 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Shashi Tharoor is the 16,365th most popular politician (down from 14,742nd in 2019), the 5,588th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,132nd in 2019) and the 609th most popular British Politician.

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  • 27

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  • 1.29

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  • 4.88

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shashi Tharoor ranks 16,365 out of 15,577Before him are Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe, P. A. Sangma, Jim Bunning, Richard Russell Jr., Saeed Jalili, and Eduardo Paes. After him are George Stephanopoulos, Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar, Ron Wyden, Chiril Gaburici, Chris Christie, and Ray LaHood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Shashi Tharoor ranks 551Before him are Fritz Fischer, Álvaro Pino, Susanne Blakeslee, Mikhail Burtsev, Shamil Serikov, and Sergei Borovsky. After him are Jean-François Lamour, František Jakubec, Arvydas Juozaitis, Mani Ratnam, Peter Reid, and Clifton Powell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Shashi Tharoor ranks 5,588 out of 7,765Before him are John Dankworth (1927), Graeme Obree (1965), Steven Waddington (1968), Patricia Bredin (1935), Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe (1899), and Dorothy Shirley (1939). After him are Stuart Christie (1946), Tom Burke (1981), Mel Charles (1935), Tommy Gemmell (1943), Colin McGinn (1950), and Robert Lindsay (1949).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Shashi Tharoor ranks 609Before him are Peter Mandelson (1953), Selwyn Lloyd (1904), Jeremy Hunt (1966), John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1847), Dennis Skinner (1932), and Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe (1899). After him are Jacob Rees-Mogg (1969), Sophia Duleep Singh (1876), David Thompson (1961), Button Gwinnett (1735), Leon Brittan (1939), and Shirley Williams (1930).

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