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Vishwanath Pratap Singh

1931 - 2008

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Vishwanath Pratap Singh (25 June 1931 – 27 November 2008), shortened to V. P. Singh, was an Indian politician who was the 7th Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the 41st Raja Bahadur of Manda.He was educated at the Allahabad University and Fergusson College in Pune. In 1969, he joined the Indian National Congress party and was elected as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.In the Rajiv Gandhi ministry, Singh was given various cabinet posts, including Minister of Finance and Minister of Defence. Singh was also the Leader of the Rajya Sabha from 1984 to 1987. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vishwanath Pratap Singh has received more than 1,282,615 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Vishwanath Pratap Singh is the 11,019th most popular politician (down from 10,243rd in 2019), the 401st most popular biography from India (down from 348th in 2019) and the 131st most popular Indian Politician.

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  • 47

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Over the past year Vishwanath Pratap Singh has had the most page views in the with 62,255 views, followed by English (54,629), and Tamil (10,575). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (125.90%), Esperanto (68.92%), and Occitan (68.20%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vishwanath Pratap Singh ranks 11,019 out of 19,576. Before him are Azlan Shah of Perak, Agnes of Austria, Chremonides, Marjorie Bruce, Al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah, and Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes. After him are Abdelaziz Djerad, Lucius Cassius Longinus, Shavarsh Karapetyan, Blaže Koneski, Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and Pinhas Lavon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Vishwanath Pratap Singh ranks 229. Before him are Nick Bollettieri, Yoji Yamada, Robert Enrico, David Wilkerson, Jan Johansson, and León Febres Cordero. After him are Janosch, Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, Tab Hunter, Ryuzo Hiraki, Michel Deville, and Georgy Grechko. Among people deceased in 2008, Vishwanath Pratap Singh ranks 147. Before him are Philipp von Boeselager, Nina Foch, Emmanuel Sanon, Alfonso López Trujillo, Guillaume Depardieu, and León Febres Cordero. After him are Robert Mulligan, Claude Abbes, Robert Prosky, Dee Dee Warwick, Dorival Caymmi, and Yury Glazkov.

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In India

Among people born in India, Vishwanath Pratap Singh ranks 401 out of 1,861. Before him are Jaimini (-390), S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1946), B. D. Jatti (1912), Suriya (1975), Akshata Murty (1980), and Shibli Nomani (1857). After him are Joseph Vaz (1651), Suryakant Tripathi (1899), Malik Kafur (1250), Vidya Balan (1979), Sharmila Tagore (1944), and Anil Kapoor (1956).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Vishwanath Pratap Singh ranks 131. Before him are Rani Padmini (null), Nitish Kumar (1951), Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), Iskander Mirza (1899), Fatima Jinnah (1893), and B. D. Jatti (1912). After him are Malik Kafur (1250), Kiran Bedi (1949), Vichitravirya (null), Man Singh I (1550), Prince Vijaya (-543), and Hemu (1501).

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