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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

1888 - 1975

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (; 5 September 1888 – 17 April 1975) was an Indian academician, philosopher and statesman who served as the Vice President of India from 1952 to 1962 and President of India from 1962 to 1967. He was the ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1952. He was also the vice-chancellor of Banaras Hindu University from 1939 to 1948 and the vice-chancellor of Andhra University from 1931 to 1936. Radhakrishnan is considered one of the most influential and distinguished 20th century scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, he held the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta from 1921 to 1932 and Spalding Chair of Eastern Religion and Ethics at University of Oxford from 1936 to 1952. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2024). Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is the 3,138th most popular politician (down from 849th in 2024), the 126th most popular biography from India (down from 33rd in 2019) and the 49th most popular Indian Politician.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was a philosopher, scholar, and politician who is most famous for being the second president of India.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ranks 3,138 out of 19,576. Before him are Narseh, Askia Mohammad I, Samudragupta, Va'aletoa Sualauvi II, Emperor Go-Kōmyō, and Anastasio Somoza García. After him are Lewis Strauss, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Theudebald, Constans II, John Mahama, and Bartolomeo Eustachi.

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Among people born in 1888, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ranks 37. Before him are Gerrit Rietveld, Maurice Chevalier, Anton Makarenko, Alexander Friedmann, Herbert Spencer Gasser, and Richard E. Byrd. After him are Carin Göring, Georges Bernanos, Ossip Zadkine, Katherine Mansfield, Josef Albers, and Ernst Kretschmer. Among people deceased in 1975, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ranks 28. Before him are Paul Keres, Jimmy Hoffa, Eisaku Satō, Antonín Novotný, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and József Mindszenty. After him are Dong Biwu, Chivu Stoica, François Tombalbaye, Shojiro Sugimura, Erich Kempka, and Pavel Sukhoi.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ranks 126 out of 1,861. Before him are Maharana Pratap (1540), Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), Rajendra Prasad (1884), A. R. Rahman (1966), Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), and Samudragupta (335). After him are Pete Best (1941), Ravi Shankar (1920), Zeb-un-Nissa (1638), Ghiyas ud din Balban (1200), Abul A'la Maududi (1903), and Kim Philby (1912).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ranks 49. Before him are Pervez Musharraf (1943), Muhammad Azam Shah (1653), Tipu Sultan (1750), Maharana Pratap (1540), Rajendra Prasad (1884), and Samudragupta (335). After him are Ghiyas ud din Balban (1200), Rajendra Chola I (1000), Sambhaji (1657), Sanghamitta (-281), Rajaraja I (947), and Ahilyabai Holkar (1725).

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