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Kiran Bedi

1949 - Today

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Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is a former tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development. As a teenager, Bedi was crowned the national junior tennis champion in 1966. Between 1965 and 1978, she won several titles at various national and state-level championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kiran Bedi is the 14,811th most popular politician (down from 11,225th in 2019), the 654th most popular biography from India (down from 408th in 2019) and the 188th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kiran Bedi ranks 14,811 out of 19,576. Before her are Ila-kabkabu, José María Moncada, Myrtle Cook, Hannibal Sehested, Julio Acosta García, and Alicia Moreau de Justo. After her are Alfonso Portillo, Pedro María de Anaya, Spyridon Lambros, Judah P. Benjamin, Celso Amorim, and Victor Bérard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Kiran Bedi ranks 450. Before her are Danuta Wałęsa, Tommy Seebach, Loretta Devine, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, Jerzy Gorgoń, and Peter Ackroyd. After her are Mwepu Ilunga, Helena Fibingerová, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Patrick Kilpatrick, Klaus Ludwig, and Patrick Nève.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kiran Bedi ranks 654 out of 1,861. Before her are Sadashiv Amrapurkar (1950), Pratibha Ray (1944), Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942), Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890), K. D. Jadhav (1926), and Shriram Lagoo (1927). After her are Kamala Surayya (1934), Manna Dey (1919), Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884), Fauja Singh (1911), and Indira Nath (1938).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Kiran Bedi ranks 188. Before her are Purushottam Das Tandon (1882), Meira Kumar (1945), Bhagwan Das (1869), Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1937), Paddy Ashdown (1941), and V. N. Janaki (1923). After her are Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884), Govind Ballabh Pant (1887), Wasim Sajjad (1941), Gopinath Bordoloi (1890), and Shyamala Gopalan (1938).

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