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N. Biren Singh

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Nongthombam Biren Singh (Meitei pronunciation: /nōng-thōm-bam bī-ren sīng/; born 1 January 1961) is an Indian politician, former footballer and journalist who served as the 12th Chief Minister of Manipur from 2017 to 2025 as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He has represented the Heingang Assembly constituency in the Manipur Legislative Assembly since 2002. Besides being the chairman of Shri Shri Govindaji Temple Board, he is the first incumbent Chief Minister who serves as the president of the Lainingthou Sanamahi Temple Board (LSTB), the temple development board of Lainingthou Sanamahi of the Sanamahi religion since 2021. Joining politics in 2002, Singh joined the Democratic Revolutionary Peoples Party and won the assembly elections from Heingang. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. N. Biren Singh is the 17,766th most popular politician (up from 18,654th in 2019), the 1,015th most popular biography from India (up from 1,224th in 2019) and the 255th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, N. Biren Singh ranks 17,766 out of 19,576Before him are Dennis Skinner, Irakli Okruashvili, James Abourezk, Arlen Specter, Russell Carpenter, and Wade Hampton III. After him are Audronius Ažubalis, Eugen Bejinariu, Radiy Khabirov, Gideon Welles, Eduardo Paes, and Cristina Cifuentes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, N. Biren Singh ranks 611Before him are Orla Brady, Jorge Da Silva, Andrey Perlov, Oksen Mirzoyan, André Hoffmann, and Dale Dickey. After him are Michie Tomizawa, Frank Bruno, Mary Kay Bergman, Jos Lansink, Mahamat Kamoun, and Michael Schulz.

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In India

Among people born in India, N. Biren Singh ranks 1,015 out of 1,861Before him are Jamnalal Bajaj (1889), Manohar Lal Khattar (1954), Virat Kohli (1988), Jamuna (1936), Nitin Gadkari (1957), and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944). After him are B. Saroja Devi (1938), Raja Ramanna (1925), Mahendra Kapoor (1934), Mani Ratnam (1956), Shreya Ghoshal (1984), and Anu Aggarwal (1969).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, N. Biren Singh ranks 255Before him are Margaret Alva (1942), Murli Manohar Joshi (1934), Shivraj Singh Chouhan (1959), Manohar Lal Khattar (1954), Nitin Gadkari (1957), and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944). After him are Asaf Ali (1888), Harkishan Singh Surjeet (1916), Arun Shourie (1941), Nandini Satpathy (1931), Aruna Roy (1946), and Rabri Devi (1956).