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James Brooke

1803 - 1868

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James Brooke (29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868), was a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo. He ruled as the first White Rajah of Sarawak from 1841 until his death in 1868. Brooke was born and raised in India during the rule of the British East India Company. After a few years of education in England, he served in the Bengal Army, was wounded, and resigned his commission. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Brooke is the 5,650th most popular politician (down from 5,158th in 2019), the 223rd most popular biography from India (down from 175th in 2019) and the 78th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, James Brooke ranks 5,650 out of 19,576. Before him are László Tőkés, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Hwang Jang-yop, Mori Ranmaru, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and 'Adud al-Dawla. After him are Anna Leopoldovna, Ulpia Marciana, Julio María Sanguinetti, Thorkell the Tall, Werner Naumann, and King Cheng of Zhou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, James Brooke ranks 19. Before him are Gottfried Semper, Fyodor Tyutchev, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Alexander Georg von Bunge, and Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony. After him are Jacques Charles François Sturm, Ferenc Deák, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, C. L. Gloger, Robert Stephenson, and Friedrich von Amerling. Among people deceased in 1868, James Brooke ranks 18. Before him are Franz Berwald, Okita Sōji, Adalbert Stifter, François-Édouard Picot, Mihailo Obrenović, and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. After him are Christian Friedrich Schönbein, James Mayer de Rothschild, Kondō Isami, Rasoherina, Julius Plücker, and Ferenc Gyulay.

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In India

Among people born in India, James Brooke ranks 223 out of 1,861. Before him are Deepak Chopra (1946), Mumtaz (1947), Parshvanatha (-872), Sikandar Lodi (1450), Madhvacharya (1199), and Sivananda Saraswati (1887). After him are Khaleda Zia (1945), Vinoba Bhave (1895), Ahmad Sirhindi (1564), Shilpa Shetty (1975), Sai Baba of Shirdi (1835), and Rajkumar (1929).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, James Brooke ranks 78. Before him are M. Visvesvaraya (1861), Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879), Henry McMahon (1862), Shah Shuja (1616), Siraj ud-Daulah (1733), and Sikandar Lodi (1450). After him are Khaleda Zia (1945), Birbal (1528), Chaudhry Muhammad Ali (1905), Amrit Kaur (1889), V. V. Giri (1894), and Nirmala Sitharaman (1959).

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