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Sushma Swaraj

1952 - 2019

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Sushma Swaraj (née Sharma; 14 February 1952 – 6 August 2019) was an Indian lawyer, politician and diplomat who served as the Minister of External Affairs of India in the first Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. She was the second person to complete a 5-year term as the Minister of External Affairs, after Jawaharlal Nehru. A senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Swaraj was the second woman to hold the office of Minister of External Affairs, after Indira Gandhi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sushma Swaraj has received more than 7,235,619 page views. Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Sushma Swaraj is the 13,909th most popular politician (down from 12,787th in 2019), the 573rd most popular biography from India (down from 484th in 2019) and the 178th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sushma Swaraj ranks 13,909 out of 19,576Before her are Berthold Delbrück, Christian Lundeberg, Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, Buenaventura Báez, Fadil Vokrri, and Gaius Fannius. After her are Arkadi Ghukasyan, Georg Friedrich von Martens, Horacio Vásquez, Esau de' Buondelmonti, Pharnaces II of Phrygia, and Ermesinde of Luxembourg, Countess of Namur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Sushma Swaraj ranks 335Before her are Sefer Halilović, Siegfried Stohr, Martin Parr, Charlie Whiting, Quim Monzó, and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. After her are Vladimir Gusinsky, Édouard Fritch, Tony Kaye, Rodolfo Neri Vela, Norbert Haug, and Lee Ritenour. Among people deceased in 2019, Sushma Swaraj ranks 296Before her are Charlie Whiting, Carol Channing, Shivakumara Swami, Imata Kabua, Princess Alix of Luxembourg, and Rudi Assauer. After her are Alessandra Panaro, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Galina Volchek, Gunder Bengtsson, Charles Kittel, and Carolee Schneemann.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sushma Swaraj ranks 573 out of 1,861Before her are Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882), Manna Dey (1919), Robert Swinhoe (1836), Arjun Appadurai (1949), Kamala Surayya (1934), and Jayakanthan (1934). After her are Roshan Seth (1942), Naseeruddin Shah (1949), The Great Gama (1878), Verghese Kurien (1921), Muhammad Azam Shah (1653), and Sivaji Ganesan (1928).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Sushma Swaraj ranks 178Before her are Bhagwan Das (1869), Shuja-ud-Daula (1732), Palden Thondup Namgyal (1923), Margaret Abbott (1878), Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1937), and Rahul Gandhi (1970). After her are Muhammad Azam Shah (1653), Baji Rao II (1775), BP Koirala (1914), George Fernandes (1930), Jaipal Singh Munda (1903), and Gopinath Bordoloi (1890).