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Harihara I

1336 - 1356

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Harihara I (1306 – 20 November 1355), also known as Hakka and Vira Harihara I, was the founder of the Vijayanagara Empire, in present-day Karnataka, India, which he ruled from 1336 to 1355. He and his successors formed the Sangama dynasty, the first of four dynasties to rule the empire. He was the eldest son of Bhavana Sangama, the chieftain of a cowherd pastoralist community of the Kuruba caste, who claimed Yadava clan in Chandravamsa lineage. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harihara I is the 14,195th most popular politician (down from 12,486th in 2019), the 600th most popular biography from India (down from 470th in 2019) and the 180th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Harihara I ranks 14,195 out of 19,576Before him are Suella Braverman, Lucius Caecilius Metellus Diadematus, Albert Gallatin, Jane Marcet, Élie Lescot, and Samuel Dexter. After him are Florence Devouard, Gartnait I, Marduk-balassu-iqbi, Stanisław Narutowicz, Hoàng Văn Thái, and Philippe Buchez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1336, Harihara I ranks 8Before him are Stefan Uroš V, Albert I, Duke of Bavaria, Philip, Duke of Orléans, Olivier V de Clisson, Balthasar, Landgrave of Thuringia, and Hồ Quý Ly.  Among people deceased in 1356, Harihara I ranks 7Before him are Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut, Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, Lippo Memmi, Walter VI, Count of Brienne, Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg, and Giovanni Gradenigo.

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In India

Among people born in India, Harihara I ranks 600 out of 1,861Before him are Saalumarada Thimmakka (1911), Shabana Azmi (1950), Jeannette Altwegg (1930), Amarinder Singh (1942), Antony Padiyara (1921), and Azim Premji (1945). After him are Palden Thondup Namgyal (1923), Om Puri (1950), Barry Hay (1948), Padma Bandopadhyay (1944), Humpy Koneru (1987), and Samantha Akkineni (1987).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Harihara I ranks 180Before him are Hemu (1501), Malik Kafur (1250), Bal Thackeray (1926), Nitish Kumar (1951), Sukhdev Thapar (1907), and Amarinder Singh (1942). After him are Palden Thondup Namgyal (1923), Purushottam Das Tandon (1882), Meira Kumar (1945), Bhagwan Das (1869), Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1937), and Paddy Ashdown (1941).