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Sheila Dikshit

1938 - 2019

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Sheila Dikshit (pronounced [ˈʃiːlaː ˈdiːkʂɪt] ) (née Kapoor; 31 March 1938 – 20 July 2019) was an Indian politician. The longest-serving chief minister of Delhi, as well as the longest-serving female chief minister of any Indian state, she served for a period of 15 years beginning in 1998. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sheila Dikshit has received more than 2,061,114 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Sheila Dikshit is the 14,943rd most popular politician (down from 14,835th in 2019), the 654th most popular biography from India (down from 644th in 2019) and the 195th most popular Indian Politician.

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  • 4.23

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sheila Dikshit ranks 14,943 out of 19,576. Before her are Charles Booth, Željko Šturanović, Fred Ramdat Misier, Gaius Sallustius Passienus Crispus, Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah, and Nicolás Lindley López. After her are Émile Reuter, Francisco Ramón Vicuña, Ameenah Gurib, Hennadiy Kernes, Rainer von Fieandt, and Ichikawa Fusae.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Sheila Dikshit ranks 418. Before her are Omar Caetano, Haruhiro Yamashita, Urs Widmer, Jon Sobrino, András Balczó, and Nina Andreyeva. After her are Hudson Austin, Jerry Rubin, Marcel Artelesa, William Bolcom, Carlos Monsiváis, and Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn. Among people deceased in 2019, Sheila Dikshit ranks 358. Before her are Bernard Binlin Dadié, Bernard Lietaer, Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi, Freddie Jones, Gerhard Auer, and Pat Crawford Brown. After her are Hubert Hahne, Jaegwon Kim, Anatoly Krutikov, Imre Varga, Norbert Eder, and Francisco Toledo.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sheila Dikshit ranks 654 out of 1,861. Before her are Medha Patkar (1954), Bindu (1951), Shah Shuja (1616), Nana Patekar (1951), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), and Farida Jalal (1949). After her are Ismat Chughtai (1915), Percy Hobart (1885), Guru Dutt (1925), Arthur E. Kennelly (1861), Venkaiah Naidu (1949), and Mahboob Ali Khan (1866).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Sheila Dikshit ranks 195. Before her are Wasim Sajjad (1941), S. Jaishankar (1955), Ram Vilas Paswan (1946), Syama Prasad Mukherjee (1901), Ashok Gehlot (1951), and Shah Shuja (1616). After her are Venkaiah Naidu (1949), Mahboob Ali Khan (1866), Anandiben Patel (1941), Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (1924), Asaf-ud-Daula (1748), and Choudhry Rahmat Ali (1895).

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