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Bhanu Athaiya

1929 - 2020

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Bhanu Athaiya (née Rajopadhye; 28 April 1929 – 15 October 2020) was an Indian costume designer and painter. She was the first Indian to win an Academy Award. Alongside being Bollywood's most iconic costume designer, she had a historically important early career as an artist with contemporaries like M. F. Husain, F. N. Souza and Vasudeo S. Gaitonde. She was the only woman member of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bhanu Athaiya is the 17,425th most popular politician (down from 16,758th in 2019), the 955th most popular biography from India (down from 850th in 2019) and the 240th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bhanu Athaiya ranks 17,425 out of 19,576. Before her are Don Young, Tip O'Neill, David Thompson, Guntars Krasts, Louis A. Johnson, and Teodor Meleșcanu. After her are Enele Sopoaga, George Santos, Andris Šķēle, Stanislav Gross, Grigol Mgaloblishvili, and Richard J. Terrile.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Bhanu Athaiya ranks 521. Before her are Jules Feiffer, Clyde Lovellette, Michel Knuysen, Yelizaveta Bagryantseva, Boris Nikolov, and Johnny Ace. After her are Nel Noddings, Shirley Ann Grau, Brian Friel, Nirmala Deshpande, Tom Foley, and Jerry Adler. Among people deceased in 2020, Bhanu Athaiya ranks 736. Before her are Karel Neffe, Danny Hodge, Michael McClure, Naya Rivera, J. I. Packer, and Ivan Utrobin. After her are Dawn Wells, Sumner Redstone, Mridula Sinha, Shirley Ann Grau, Tony Waiters, and Annie Ross.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bhanu Athaiya ranks 955 out of 1,861. Before her are Sonal Mansingh (1944), Sugata Mitra (1952), Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938), Anupam Tripathi (1988), Zohra Sehgal (1912), and Narain Karthikeyan (1977). After her are Pratima Barua Pandey (1934), R. K. Laxman (1921), Mridula Sinha (1942), Rohinton Mistry (1952), Tariq Anwar (1945), and Jadav Payeng (1963).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Bhanu Athaiya ranks 240. Before her are Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1941), Subramanian Swamy (1939), Amit Shah (1964), Sumitra Mahajan (1943), Arvind Kejriwal (1968), and Kanu Sanyal (1928). After her are Mridula Sinha (1942), Vasundhara Raje (1953), Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (1915), Maneka Gandhi (1956), Leo Amery (1873), and Arun Jaitley (1952).

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