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Fatima Sheikh

1831 - 1900

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Fatima Sheikh was a 19th century Indian educator and social reformer, who was a colleague of the social reformers Jyotiba Phule and Savitribai Phule. Sheikh is widely regarded as India's first Muslim woman teacher and is remembered for her role in educating and empowering women and marginalized communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fatima Sheikh is the 11,555th most popular politician (up from 12,141st in 2019), the 431st most popular biography from India (up from 452nd in 2019) and the 143rd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fatima Sheikh ranks 11,555 out of 19,576Before her are Matei Basarab, Hendrikus Colijn, Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany, Paul Carell, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, and Ivan Fedyuninsky. After her are Conan IV, Duke of Brittany, Dragoș, Voivode of Moldavia, Giovanni Dolfin, Gevork Vartanian, Héctor Trujillo, and Boris Stürmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Fatima Sheikh ranks 61Before her are Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Johann von Herbeck, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, and Paolo Mantegazza. After her are Wojciech Gerson, Theodor Aman, George Pullman, José Evaristo Uriburu, Alexandre Falguière, and Subh-i-Azal. Among people deceased in 1900, Fatima Sheikh ranks 57Before her are Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Bruno Abakanowicz, Frederic Edwin Church, Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, Wilhelm Kühne, and Alphonse Milne-Edwards. After her are Leonardo Murialdo, Piet Joubert, Sergei Korsakoff, Francišak Bahuševič, Alexandre Falguière, and Rudolf Charousek.

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In India

Among people born in India, Fatima Sheikh ranks 431 out of 1,861Before her are Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1919), Girish Karnad (1938), Abanindranath Tagore (1871), Shah Alam II (1728), Anish Kapoor (1954), and The Great Khali (1972). After her are Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725), Kavita Krishnamurthy (1958), Kumar Sanu (1957), Sridevi (1963), Rukhmabai (1864), and Debendranath Tagore (1817).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Fatima Sheikh ranks 143Before her are Motilal Nehru (1861), Margaret Abbott (1878), Man Singh I (1550), Zail Singh (1916), Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1919), and Shah Alam II (1728). After her are Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725), BP Koirala (1914), Jacques Lauriston (1768), Jahandar Shah (1661), Guru Har Rai (1630), and Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905).