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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

1900 - 1990

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Vijay Lakshmi Pandit (née Swarup Nehru; 18 August 1900 – 1 December 1990) was an Indian freedom fighter, diplomat and politician. She served as the 8th President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1953 to 1954, the first woman and the only Indian to have been appointed to this post. She was also the 3rd Governor of Maharashtra from 1962 to 1964. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit has received more than 2,527,907 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit is the 8,234th most popular politician (up from 8,722nd in 2019), the 278th most popular biography from India (up from 287th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit ranks 8,234 out of 19,576. Before her are Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, Kokhir Rasulzoda, Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria, Emilio Colombo, Wifred II, Count of Barcelona, and Hedju Hor. After her are Helen of Anjou, Begum Hazrat Mahal, Zbigniew of Poland, Tato, Franz Schlegelberger, and Susanna Agnelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit ranks 111. Before her are Miguel Alemán Valdés, James Hilton, Zhang Wentian, Muhammad Asad, Valko Chervenkov, and Oskar Fischinger. After her are Srinagarindra, Mikhail Katukov, Ernst Krenek, Lidia Ruslanova, Vítězslav Nezval, and Santos Urdinarán. Among people deceased in 1990, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit ranks 84. Before her are Taro Kagawa, Attilio Demaría, Ronald Evans, George de Mestral, Michel Leiris, and Eduard Streltsov. After her are Thorbjørn Egner, Tom Fogerty, Mariano Rumor, Alan Perlis, Lothar Collatz, and Juan José Arévalo.

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In India

Among people born in India, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit ranks 278 out of 1,861. Before her are Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918), C. N. Annadurai (1909), Dhirubhai Ambani (1932), Jaya Bachchan (1948), Birbal (1528), and Bhupen Hazarika (1926). After her are Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), Hemachandra (1089), Shakuntala Devi (1929), and Bismillah Khan (1916).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit ranks 93. Before her are Farrukhsiyar (1685), Velu Nachiyar (1730), Akbar II (1760), Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918), C. N. Annadurai (1909), and Birbal (1528). After her are Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921), Alamgir II (1699), Hyder Ali (1720), and Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886).

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