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Kocheril R. Narayanan

1921 - 2005

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Kocheril Raman "K. R." Narayanan (27 October 1920 – 9 November 2005) was an Indian statesman, diplomat, academic, and politician who served as the vice president of India from 1992 to 1997 and president of India from 1997 to 2002. Narayanan was born in Perumthanam, Uzhavoor village, in the princely state of Travancore (present day Kottayam district, Kerala) into a Hindu family. After a brief stint with journalism and then studies at the London School of Economics with the assistance of a scholarship, Narayanan began his career in India as a member of the Indian Foreign Service in the Nehru administration. He served as ambassador to a number of countries, most principally to the United States and China, and was referred by Nehru as "the best diplomat of the country". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kocheril R. Narayanan is the 507th most popular politician (up from 9,099th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from India (up from 315th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kocheril R. Narayanan ranks 507 out of 19,576. Before him are Georgy Malenkov, Louis VII of France, Ahmed II, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and Tolui. After him are Arcadius, Razia Sultana, Eduard Shevardnadze, Omar al-Bashir, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Józef Piłsudski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Kocheril R. Narayanan ranks 7. Before him are Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, John Glenn, Alexander Dubček, Charles Bronson, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, and Michael I of Romania. After him are Suharto, Andrei Sakharov, Astor Piazzolla, Stanisław Lem, Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Yves Montand. Among people deceased in 2005, Kocheril R. Narayanan ranks 4. Before him are Pope John Paul II, Edward Heath, and Rosa Parks. After him are Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Claude Simon, Arthur Miller, George Best, Paul Ricœur, Peter Drucker, and Simon Wiesenthal.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kocheril R. Narayanan ranks 26 out of 1,861. Before him are B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Shah Rukh Khan (1965), and Rudyard Kipling (1865). After him are Razia Sultana (1205), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), Jamsetji Tata (1839), Vivien Leigh (1913), Ānanda (-600), and Brahmagupta (598).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Kocheril R. Narayanan ranks 11. Before him are Pratibha Patil (1934), A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Droupadi Murmu (1958), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), and Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924). After him are Razia Sultana (1205), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), Rani of Jhansi (1828), Zakir Husain (1897), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), and Chandragupta Maurya (-340).

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