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Jawaharlal Nehru

1889 - 1964

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Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964, and a central figure in the Indian Independence Movement. The son of Motilal Nehru, a prominent lawyer and Indian nationalist, Jawaharlal Nehru was educated in England—at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and trained in the law at the Inner Temple. He became a barrister, returned to India, enrolled at the Allahabad High Court and gradually became interested in national politics, which eventually became a full-time occupation. He joined the Indian National Congress, rose to become the leader of a progressive faction during the 1920s, and eventually of the Congress, receiving the support of Mahatma Gandhi, who was to designate Nehru as his political heir by the late 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 150 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 144 in 2024). Jawaharlal Nehru is the 512th most popular politician (down from 259th in 2024), the 28th most popular biography from India (down from 9th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Indian Politician.

Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India. He is most famous for his role in the struggle for Indian independence from British rule, and his subsequent attempts to modernize and secularize India.

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Among Politicians

Among politicians, Jawaharlal Nehru ranks 512 out of 19,576. Before him are Tolui, Kocheril R. Narayanan, Arcadius, Razia Sultana, Eduard Shevardnadze, and Omar al-Bashir. After him are Józef Piłsudski, Kangxi Emperor, Djoser, Hideki Tojo, Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, and Juan Perón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Jawaharlal Nehru ranks 8. Before him are Charlie Chaplin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, António de Oliveira Salazar, Jean Cocteau, and Edgar Adrian. After him are Edwin Hubble, Philip Noel-Baker, Paul Karrer, Ante Pavelić, Anna Akhmatova, and Vaslav Nijinsky. Among people deceased in 1964, Jawaharlal Nehru ranks 1. After him are Leo Szilard, Douglas MacArthur, Herbert Hoover, Victor Francis Hess, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Paul of Greece, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, James Franck, Alma Mahler, Rachel Carson, and Norbert Wiener.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jawaharlal Nehru ranks 28 out of 1,861. Before him are Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), and Razia Sultana (1205). After him are Jamsetji Tata (1839), Vivien Leigh (1913), Ānanda (-600), Brahmagupta (598), Rani of Jhansi (1828), and Padmasambhava (717).

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Among Politicians In India

Among politicians born in India, Jawaharlal Nehru ranks 13. Before him are Droupadi Murmu (1958), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), and Razia Sultana (1205). After him are Rani of Jhansi (1828), Zakir Husain (1897), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), Chandragupta Maurya (-340), Subhas Chandra Bose (1897), and Hyder Ali (1720).

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