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Siddhartha Mukherjee

1970 - Today

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Siddhartha Mukherjee (Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী; born 21 July 1970) is an Indian physician, biologist, and author. He is best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, that won notable literary prizes including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and Guardian First Book Award, among others. The book was listed in the "All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books" (the 100 most influential books of the last century) by Time magazine in 2011. His 2016 book The Gene: An Intimate History made it to #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list, and was among The New York Times 100 best books of 2016, and a finalist for the Wellcome Trust Prize and the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Siddhartha Mukherjee is the 715th most popular physician (down from 712th in 2024), the 1,313th most popular biography from India (down from 1,221st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Indian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Siddhartha Mukherjee ranks 715 out of 726. Before him are Fernando Simón, Donald Henderson, Bill Frist, Anna Bågenholm, Hinrich Romeike, and Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson. After him are Suniti Solomon, Amina Okueva, James Heilman, Jonny Kim, Atul Gawande, and Ai Fen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Siddhartha Mukherjee ranks 942. Before him are Trond Einar Elden, Thomas Poulsen, Chi Cheng, Jens Todt, Oktay Urkal, and Amineh Kakabaveh. After him are Stella Tennant, R. Madhavan, Jun Naito, James Wattana, Tristan Hoffman, and Nobuyuki Hosaka.

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In India

Among people born in India, Siddhartha Mukherjee ranks 1,313 out of 1,861. Before him are Aarya Babbar (1982), Tom Alter (1950), Bishan Singh Bedi (1946), Anita Nair (1966), Karun Chandhok (1984), and Shashi Deshpande (1938). After him are R. Madhavan (1970), Rituparno Ghosh (1963), Rati Agnihotri (1960), Sanaya Irani (1983), Ritika Singh (1994), and Uday Chopra (1973).

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Among PHYSICIANS In India

Among physicians born in India, Siddhartha Mukherjee ranks 11. Before him are Kadambini Ganguly (1861), Devi Shetty (1953), Kamal Ranadive (1917), Indira Nath (1938), Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882), and Narendra Dabholkar (1945). After him are Suniti Solomon (1938), and Netha Hussain (1990).

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