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POLITICIAN

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 1,551,015 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Zail Singh is the 9,010th most popular politician (up from 9,618th in 2019), the 305th most popular biography from India (up from 314th in 2019) and the 99th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Zail Singh ranks 9,010 out of 15,577Before him are Archidamus IV, Lazar Mojsov, Floris II, Count of Holland, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Ahn Changho, and Liu Bocheng. After him are Dan I of Wallachia, Prince William of Baden, Alfred Józef Potocki, Katō Tomosaburō, Sabin of Bulgaria, and Georges Cadoudal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Zail Singh ranks 114Before him are John Basilone, Unica Zürn, Archie Moore, Edmundo Suárez, Julian Rotter, and Arno Peters. After him are Walter Cronkite, Harold Robbins, Sangoulé Lamizana, Ruth Handler, Ramón José Velásquez, and Morris West. Among people deceased in 1994, Zail Singh ranks 129Before him are Lindsay Anderson, Massimo Troisi, Olga Rubtsova, Roy J. Plunkett, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, and Anni Albers. After him are Antoine Pinay, Haim Bar-Lev, Jean Carmet, Billy Wright, Leonid Leonov, and Giovanni Spadolini.

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In India

Among people born in India, Zail Singh ranks 305 out of 1,493Before him are Gupta (240), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), M. Karunanidhi (1924), Chittaranjan Das (1869), Baba Amte (1914), and Guru Hargobind (1595). After him are Nargis (1929), Maithili Sharan Gupt (1886), Abanindranath Tagore (1871), Govind Ballabh Pant (1887), Ram Prasad Bismil (1897), and Sumitranandan Pant (1900).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Zail Singh ranks 99Before him are Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900), Birbal (1528), Rajaram I (1670), Gupta (240), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), and Guru Hargobind (1595). After him are Govind Ballabh Pant (1887), Lakshmi Sahgal (1914), Jahanara Begum (1614), Hussain Muhammad Ershad (1930), Chandra Shekhar (1927), and Rana Sanga (1482).