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Zail Singh

1916 - 1994

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Giani Zail Singh (, born Jarnail Singh; 5 May 1916 – 25 December 1994) was an Indian politician from Punjab who served as the seventh president of India from 1982 to 1987 and 9th Chief Minister of Punjab. He was the first Sikh to become president. Born in Sandhwan in the princely state of Faridkot, Singh trained to be a granthi and was given the title of giani, meaning a learned man, while training at the Sikh Missionary School in Amritsar. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zail Singh has received more than 1,677,465 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Zail Singh is the 9,012th most popular politician (down from 8,983rd in 2019), the 307th most popular biography from India (down from 302nd in 2019) and the 103rd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Zail Singh ranks 9,012 out of 19,576. Before him are Deidamia I of Epirus, Jean Castex, Yahya Khan, Ben-Hadad I, Levi P. Morton, and Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria. After him are C. R. Swart, Mwai Kibaki, Mangas Coloradas, Tevfik Esenç, Margaret I, Countess of Flanders, and Isaac Komnenos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Zail Singh ranks 106. Before him are Bismillah Khan, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Chiang Fang-liang, Lung Chien, Yekaterina Budanova, and Ivo Lola Ribar. After him are Alexey Maresyev, Edmundo Suárez, Ugo Locatelli, Helmut Gröttrup, Erik Nilsson, and Penelope Fitzgerald. Among people deceased in 1994, Zail Singh ranks 123. Before him are Enrique Líster, Woody Strode, Giovanni Spadolini, Manfred Wörner, Claude Akins, and Derek Jarman. After him are Motoo Kimura, Stephen Cole Kleene, Dean Rusk, John Edward Williams, Frederick Copleston, and Billy Wright.

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In India

Among people born in India, Zail Singh ranks 307 out of 1,861. Before him are Harilal Gandhi (1888), M. Karunanidhi (1924), Savitri (1936), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), Asha Bhosle (1933), and K. Kamaraj (1903). After him are Telesphore Toppo (1939), Chandra Shekhar (1927), Rajinikanth (1950), Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), Vallabha (1479), and Rishabhanatha (null).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Zail Singh ranks 103. Before him are Alamgir II (1699), Hyder Ali (1720), Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), M. S. Swaminathan (1925), Nana Sahib (1824), and K. Kamaraj (1903). After him are Chandra Shekhar (1927), Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), Hussain Muhammad Ershad (1930), Sikandar Lodi (1450), and Bahubali (null).

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