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V. K. Krishna Menon

1896 - 1974

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Vengalil Krishna Kurup Krishna Menon (3 May 1896 – 6 October 1974) was an Indian academic, independence activist, politician, lawyer, and statesman. During his time, Menon contributed to the Indian independence movement, India's foreign relations as de facto foreign minister, one of the major architects of Indian foreign policy, and acted as Jawaharlal Nehru's diplomat. In 1928, Menon founded the India League in London to demand total independence from the British rule in the Indian subcontinent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of V. K. Krishna Menon has received more than 1,222,353 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). V. K. Krishna Menon is the 16,686th most popular politician (down from 15,058th in 2019), the 833rd most popular biography from India (down from 667th in 2019) and the 228th most popular Indian Politician.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year V. K. Krishna Menon has had the most page views in the with 189,051 views, followed by Hindi (6,043), and Malayalam (3,049). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Irish (4,775.00%), French (81.20%), and Esperanto (56.96%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, V. K. Krishna Menon ranks 16,686 out of 19,576. Before him are Philip Dimitrov, Pierre Jaccoud, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, Haneen Zoabi, Michael Spindelegger, and George Clymer. After him are Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene, Nicolas Alfonsi, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Donald Kalpokas, and Nadiya Savchenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, V. K. Krishna Menon ranks 255. Before him are Herb Drury, Manuel Rojas, J. Carrol Naish, Adele Astaire, Pavel Antokolsky, and Keen Johnson. After him are Samuel Mosberg, Gösta Runö, Carl Abrahamsson, Marion Zinderstein, Ralph Bagnold, and Constance Binney. Among people deceased in 1974, V. K. Krishna Menon ranks 239. Before him are Gene Ammons, Tex Ritter, Charles Rosher, Maturino Blanchet, Harry Ricardo, and Enrico Rivolta. After him are Gabriel Thorstensen, Roger Staub, Giovanni D'Anzi, Jacob Bronowski, Ralph Bishop, and Mary Forbes.

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In India

Among people born in India, V. K. Krishna Menon ranks 833 out of 1,861. Before him are Amjad Ali Khan (1945), George Caridia (1869), Sonu Sood (1973), Anil Ambani (1959), Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914), and Harold Walden (1887). After him are Vikram Seth (1952), John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910), Indira Nath (1938), V. Shantaram (1901), Sitara Devi (1920), and Adolf Lu Hitler Marak (1958).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, V. K. Krishna Menon ranks 228. Before him are Pinarayi Vijayan (1945), Parkash Singh Badal (1927), Murli Manohar Joshi (1934), Shyamala Gopalan (1938), Madhavrao Scindia (1945), and E. M. S. Namboodiripad (1909). After him are Adolf Lu Hitler Marak (1958), Salmaan Taseer (1944), Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (1949), Bhanu Athaiya (1929), Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1941), and Chidambaram Subramaniam (1910).

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