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Narendra Modi

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Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician who has served as the prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the member of parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest-serving prime minister outside the Indian National Congress. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Narendra Modi is the 43rd most popular politician (up from 73rd in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from India (down from 2nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Politician.

Narendra Modi is most famous for being the Prime Minister of India. He is also famous for being a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Narendra Modi ranks 43 out of 19,576Before him are George III of the United Kingdom, Kim Il-sung, Constantine the Great, David, Martin Van Buren, and Joseph Goebbels. After him are Hillary Clinton, Winston Churchill, Mao Zedong, Otto von Bismarck, Charles II of England, and Wilhelm II, German Emperor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Narendra Modi ranks 1After him are Anne, Princess Royal, Viktor Yanukovych, Zaha Hadid, Agnetha Fältskog, Georg Bednorz, Sergey Lavrov, Abdullah Gül, Tom Petty, Jay Leno, Vicente del Bosque, and Sahle-Work Zewde.

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In India

Among people born in India, Narendra Modi ranks 3 out of 1,861Before him are Mahatma Gandhi (1869), and Indira Gandhi (1917). After him are Mumtaz Mahal (1593), George Orwell (1903), Ashoka (-304), Rajneesh (1931), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Swami Vivekananda (1863), Kālidāsa (400), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), and Ramakrishna (1836).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Narendra Modi ranks 2Before him are Indira Gandhi (1917). After him are Ashoka (-304), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), Pratibha Patil (1934), A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Droupadi Murmu (1958), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), and Razia Sultana (1205).