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Saroo Brierley

1981 - Today

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Saroo Brierley (born Sheru Munshi Khan; c. 1981) is an Indian-born Australian businessman and author who, at the age of five, was accidentally separated from his biological family. He was adopted out of India by an Australian couple but was reunited with his original family 25 years later after finding his hometown via Google Earth. His story generated significant international media attention, especially in Australia and India. An autobiographical account of his experiences, A Long Way Home, was published in 2013 in Australia, released internationally in 2014, and adapted into the 2016 Oscar-nominated film Lion, starring Sunny Pawar and Dev Patel as Saroo, David Wenham as his adoptive father, John Brierley, and Nicole Kidman as his adoptive mother, Sue Brierley. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Saroo Brierley is the 6,055th most popular writer (up from 6,483rd in 2019), the 855th most popular biography from India (up from 943rd in 2019) and the 107th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saroo Brierley ranks 6,055 out of 7,302. Before him are Mike Godwin, Darren Shan, Frances Wright, Dmitry Gordon, Julian Symons, and Kjell Ola Dahl. After him are Wolfgang Hohlbein, Jonathan Safran Foer, Cyril Collard, Oscar Levertin, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, and Gert Hofmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Saroo Brierley ranks 202. Before him are Takafumi Kanazawa, Jenna Bush Hager, Owen Hargreaves, Raúl Bravo, Toshikazu Kato, and Abdul Kader Keïta. After him are Barbora Špotáková, Alice Rohrwacher, Jesse Williams, Lee Jin-wook, Klemen Lavrič, and Vladimir Kara-Murza.

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In India

Among people born in India, Saroo Brierley ranks 855 out of 1,861. Before him are Cyrus Mistry (1968), Yamini Krishnamurthy (1940), Arati Saha (1940), Nita Ambani (1963), Rakesh Roshan (1949), and R. H. Tawney (1880). After him are Baji Rao II (1775), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), Jaipal Singh Munda (1903), Nalini Bala Devi (1898), George Caridia (1869), and Mrinalini Sarabhai (1918).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Saroo Brierley ranks 107. Before him are Nirmal Verma (1929), Anita Desai (1937), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Roshanara Begum (1617), Ismat Chughtai (1915), and Fareed Zakaria (1964). After him are Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), Nalini Bala Devi (1898), Javed Akhtar (1945), Gurdial Singh (1933), Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944), and Ali Sardar Jafri (1913).

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