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M. Visvesvaraya

1861 - 1962

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Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (Moːkśguṇam Viśveśvarayya; 15 September 1861 – 12/14 April 1962), also referred to by his initials, MV, was an Indian civil engineer, administrator, and statesman, who served as the 19th Dewan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918. Visvesvaraya is regarded in India as one of the foremost civil engineers whose birthday, 15 September, is celebrated every year as Engineer's Day in India, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania. He is also often regarded as "the maker of modern Mysore". According to Prajavani, a Kannada language newspaper, he is also the most popular figure in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. M. Visvesvaraya is the 5,249th most popular politician (up from 5,793rd in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from India (down from 193rd in 2019) and the 72nd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, M. Visvesvaraya ranks 5,249 out of 19,576. Before him are Huo Qubing, Donald II of Scotland, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, Prithvi Narayan Shah, and Herschel Grynszpan. After him are Gnaeus Octavius, Piri Mehmed Pasha, Firuz Shah Tughlaq, Doquz Khatun, Malik-Shah II, and Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, M. Visvesvaraya ranks 39. Before him are Ranavalona III, Armando Diaz, Michel Verne, Pierre Duhem, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, and Henry Gantt. After him are Walter Simons, Luigi Facta, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, Santiago Rusiñol, Nellie Melba, and Jurji Zaydan. Among people deceased in 1962, M. Visvesvaraya ranks 43. Before him are Killing of Peter Fechter, Ivan Meštrović, Dušan Simović, Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Eiji Yoshikawa, and Leonardo De Lorenzo. After him are Gianna Beretta Molla, André Lhote, Owen D. Young, Aleksei Antonov, Princess Helen of Serbia, and Natalia Sedova.

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In India

Among people born in India, M. Visvesvaraya ranks 205 out of 1,861. Before him are Nirmala Joshi (1934), Vishvamitra (-2000), Mamnoon Hussain (1940), Homi K. Bhabha (1949), Ratan Tata (1937), and S. Jaishankar (1955). After him are Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879), Sabu Dastagir (1924), Sudha Murty (1950), Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838), Henry McMahon (1862), and V. S. Ramachandran (1951).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, M. Visvesvaraya ranks 72. Before him are Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), Chandragupta II (400), Salmaan Taseer (1944), Vishvamitra (-2000), Mamnoon Hussain (1940), and S. Jaishankar (1955). After him are Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879), Henry McMahon (1862), Shah Shuja (1616), Siraj ud-Daulah (1733), Sikandar Lodi (1450), and James Brooke (1803).

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