Roorkee
Roorkee ranks 17,660th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kapiri Mposhi, Cummins, South Australia, and Ulanqab. Memorable people born in Roorkee include Rishabh Pant. Roorkee has been the birth place of many cricketers. Roorkee is located in India.
Roorkee is a city and a municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of the state of Uttarakhand, India. It is 31 km (19 mi) from Haridwar city, the district headquarter. It is spread over a flat terrain under Sivalik Hills of Himalayas. The city is developed on the banks of Ganges Canal, its dominant feature, which flows from north–south through middle of the city. Roorkee is home to Asia's first engineering college Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, formerly known as Thomson College of Civil Engineering. Roorkee is also known for the Roorkee Cantonment, one of the country's oldest military establishments and the headquarters of Bengal Engineer Group since 1853. A freight train ran in between Roorkee and Piran Kaliyar on 22 December 1851, this was two years before first passenger trains were started between Bombay and Thana in 1853 and 14 years after first freight trains ran in Chennai in 1837. Read more on Wikipedia
People
In 1997, Roorkee was the birth place of 1 globally memorable people, including Rishabh Pant.
People Born in Roorkee
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Most individuals born in present day Roorkee were cricketers (1), while most who died were .
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, cricketers have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Roorkee, including Rishabh Pant. Whereas, throughout history, cricketers have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Roorkee, including Rishabh Pant.
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Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 0 globally memorable people born in Roorkee since 1700.
