1956 - Today
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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Among politicians, Shashi Tharoor ranks 16,365 out of 15,577. Before 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.
1899 - 1977
HPI: 37.46
Rank: 16,359
1947 - 2016
HPI: 37.46
Rank: 16,360
1931 - 2017
HPI: 37.46
Rank: 16,361
1897 - 1971
HPI: 37.46
Rank: 16,362
1965 - Present
HPI: 37.45
Rank: 16,363
1969 - Present
HPI: 37.45
Rank: 16,364
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.44
Rank: 16,365
1961 - Present
HPI: 37.44
Rank: 16,366
1957 - Present
HPI: 37.44
Rank: 16,367
1949 - Present
HPI: 37.44
Rank: 16,368
1976 - Present
HPI: 37.44
Rank: 16,369
1962 - Present
HPI: 37.43
Rank: 16,370
1945 - Present
HPI: 37.42
Rank: 16,371
Among people born in 1956, Shashi Tharoor ranks 551. Before 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.
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.65
Rank: 545
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.60
Rank: 546
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.48
Rank: 547
1956 - 2015
HPI: 37.48
Rank: 548
1956 - 1989
HPI: 37.48
Rank: 549
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.46
Rank: 550
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.44
Rank: 551
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.40
Rank: 552
1956 - 2016
HPI: 37.23
Rank: 553
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.19
Rank: 554
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.00
Rank: 555
1956 - Present
HPI: 36.87
Rank: 556
1956 - Present
HPI: 36.86
Rank: 557
Among people born in United Kingdom, Shashi Tharoor ranks 5,588 out of 7,765. Before 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).
1927 - 2010
HPI: 37.49
Rank: 5,582
1965 - Present
HPI: 37.48
Rank: 5,583
1968 - Present
HPI: 37.47
Rank: 5,584
1935 - 2023
HPI: 37.46
Rank: 5,585
1899 - 1977
HPI: 37.46
Rank: 5,586
1939 - Present
HPI: 37.45
Rank: 5,587
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.44
Rank: 5,588
1946 - 2020
HPI: 37.44
Rank: 5,589
1981 - Present
HPI: 37.42
Rank: 5,590
1935 - 2016
HPI: 37.42
Rank: 5,591
1943 - 2017
HPI: 37.39
Rank: 5,592
1950 - Present
HPI: 37.38
Rank: 5,593
1949 - Present
HPI: 37.38
Rank: 5,594
Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Shashi Tharoor ranks 609. Before 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).
1953 - Present
HPI: 38.32
Rank: 603
1904 - 1978
HPI: 38.29
Rank: 604
1966 - Present
HPI: 38.26
Rank: 605
1847 - 1934
HPI: 37.79
Rank: 606
1932 - Present
HPI: 37.70
Rank: 607
1899 - 1977
HPI: 37.46
Rank: 608
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.44
Rank: 609
1969 - Present
HPI: 37.16
Rank: 610
1876 - 1948
HPI: 36.96
Rank: 611
1961 - 2010
HPI: 36.96
Rank: 612
1735 - 1777
HPI: 36.91
Rank: 613
1939 - 2015
HPI: 36.86
Rank: 614
1930 - 2021
HPI: 36.84
Rank: 615