1750 - 1799
Tipu Sultan (born Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu, 1 December 1751 – 4 May 1799), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore based in South India. He was a pioneer of rocket artillery. He introduced a number of administrative innovations during his rule, including a new coinage system and calendar, and a new land revenue system, which initiated the growth of the Mysore silk industry. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tipu Sultan has received more than 6,430,160 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Tipu Sultan is the 1,720th most popular politician (up from 1,781st in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from India and the 16th most popular Indian Politician.
Tipu Sultan was a Muslim ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore. He is most famous for his military exploits, which included a series of conflicts with the British East India Company.
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Among politicians, Tipu Sultan ranks 1,720 out of 15,710. Before him are Corazon Aquino, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Suleyman Shah, Symon Petliura, Bona Sforza, and Theuderic IV. After him are Uzziah, Samuel of Bulgaria, José Eduardo dos Santos, Gelimer, Paul Doumer, and Jamukha.
1933 - 2009
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 1,714
1847 - 1897
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 1,715
1178 - 1236
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 1,716
1879 - 1926
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 1,717
1494 - 1557
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 1,718
712 - 737
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 1,719
1750 - 1799
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 1,720
900 BC - 900 BC
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 1,721
958 - 1014
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 1,722
1942 - Present
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 1,723
480 - 553
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 1,724
1857 - 1932
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 1,725
1162 - 1205
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 1,726
Among people born in 1750, Tipu Sultan ranks 4. Before him are Antonio Salieri, Ali Pasha of Ioannina, and Letizia Ramolino. After him are Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Caroline Herschel, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria, Francisco de Miranda, Heshen, Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa, and Murad Bey. Among people deceased in 1799, Tipu Sultan ranks 8. Before him are Pope Pius VI, Qianlong Emperor, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Pierre Beaumarchais, Lazzaro Spallanzani, and Joseph Black. After him are Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Victoire of France, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Heshen, and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.
1750 - 1825
HPI: 82.96
Rank: 1
1750 - 1822
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 2
1750 - 1836
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 3
1750 - 1799
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 4
1750 - 1827
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 5
1750 - 1848
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 6
1750 - 1806
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 7
1750 - 1762
HPI: 71.79
Rank: 8
1750 - 1816
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 9
1750 - 1799
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 10
1750 - 1829
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 11
1750 - 1801
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 12
1717 - 1799
HPI: 81.40
Rank: 2
1711 - 1799
HPI: 81.22
Rank: 3
1718 - 1799
HPI: 76.89
Rank: 4
1732 - 1799
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 5
1729 - 1799
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 6
1728 - 1799
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 7
1750 - 1799
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 8
1742 - 1799
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 9
1733 - 1799
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 10
1728 - 1799
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 11
1740 - 1799
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 12
1750 - 1799
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 13
1739 - 1799
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 14
Among people born in India, Tipu Sultan ranks 51 out of 1,227. Before him are Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), Sita (null), Ghalib (1797), Salman Rushdie (1947), Augustus De Morgan (1806), and Mahākāśyapa (-550). After him are Mumtaz Mahal (1593), Narendra Modi (1950), Zubin Mehta (1936), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), Premchand (1880), and Sri Aurobindo (1872).
1875 - 1950
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 45
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 46
1797 - 1869
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 47
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 48
1806 - 1871
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 49
550 BC - 549 BC
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 50
1750 - 1799
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 51
1593 - 1631
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 52
1950 - Present
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 53
1936 - Present
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 54
1856 - 1920
HPI: 73.11
Rank: 55
1880 - 1936
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 56
1872 - 1950
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 57
Among politicians born in India, Tipu Sultan ranks 16. Before him are B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Rama (null), Alauddin Khalji (1266), Jahangir (1569), Sariputta (-568), and Vallabhbhai Patel (1875). After him are Narendra Modi (1950), Ram Nath Kovind (1945), Abdul Karim (1863), Harsha (590), Śuddhodana (-590), and Sher Shah Suri (1486).
1891 - 1956
HPI: 76.34
Rank: 10
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 11
1266 - 1316
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 12
1569 - 1627
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 13
568 BC - 484 BC
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 14
1875 - 1950
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 15
1750 - 1799
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 16
1950 - Present
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 17
1945 - Present
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 18
1863 - 1909
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 19
590 - 647
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 20
590 BC - Present
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 21
1486 - 1545
HPI: 71.97
Rank: 22