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Vijay Mallya

1955 - Today

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Vijay Vittal Mallya (born 18 December 1955) is an Indian fugitive former businessman and politician. He is the subject of an extradition effort by the Indian Government to return him from the UK to face charges of financial crimes in India.The son of a businessman who was also in the alcoholic beverages business, Mallya is the former chairman of United Spirits, the largest spirits company in India, and continues to serve as chairman of United Breweries Group, an Indian conglomerate with interests including beverage alcohol, aviation infrastructure, real estate, and fertilizer. He was the chairman of Sanofi India (previously known as Hoechst AG and Aventis) and the chairman of Bayer CropScience in India for over 20 years, and the chairman of several other companies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vijay Mallya has received more than 9,317,355 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Vijay Mallya is the 565th most popular businessperson (down from 491st in 2019), the 702nd most popular biography from India (down from 551st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Indian Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Vijay Mallyas by language

Over the past year Vijay Mallya has had the most page views in the with 999,031 views, followed by Hindi (33,623), and Spanish (16,099). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Telugu (23,500.00%), Malay (127.80%), and Indonesian (119.96%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Vijay Mallya ranks 565 out of 847. Before him are Howard Stringer, Marcus Loew, Arkady Volozh, Bruce Buck, Jerry Yang, and Tim O'Reilly. After him are Lisa Su, Harvey S. Firestone, Jean-Paul Agon, Anita Roddick, Dwarkanath Tagore, and Jacqueline Mars.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Vijay Mallya ranks 372. Before him are Jean Lassalle, Glenne Headly, Toshimitsu Motegi, Bill Nye, Jake Roberts, and Zlatko Lagumdžija. After him are Sam Simon, Andy Bechtolsheim, Helge Schneider, Julie Hagerty, Fang Fang, and Yōjirō Takita.

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In India

Among people born in India, Vijay Mallya ranks 702 out of 1,861. Before him are I. I. Chundrigar (1897), Rakhee Gulzar (1947), Vijay Amritraj (1953), Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928), Mehdi Hassan (1927), and Soumitra Chatterjee (1935). After him are Tom Kibble (1932), Paddy Ashdown (1941), Govinda (1963), Madhavrao I (1745), Dwarkanath Tagore (1794), and Naveen Patnaik (1946).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In India

Among businesspeople born in India, Vijay Mallya ranks 12. Before him are Akshata Murty (1980), Satya Nadella (1967), Azim Premji (1945), N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946), Indra Nooyi (1955), and Gautam Adani (1962). After him are Dwarkanath Tagore (1794), Ajay Banga (1959), Anil Ambani (1959), Dorabji Tata (1859), Chandrashekhar Agashe (1888), and Nita Ambani (1963).

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