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Tulsi Giri

1926 - 2018

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Tulsi Giri (Maithili: तुलसी गिरि; 26 September 1926 – 18 December 2018) was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1975 to 1977, and chairman of the Council of Ministers (a de facto Prime Ministerial position) in 1963, and again in 1964 and 1965. He was born in Siraha District, Nepal in 1926. Tulsi was a Minister in the Congress government of 1959−1960 before its dissolution by King Mahendra. He became the first Prime Minister following the two-year direct rule of Mahendra. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Tulsi Giri is the 17,330th most popular politician (down from 17,234th in 2024), the 49th most popular biography from Nepal (down from 47th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Nepalese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tulsi Giri ranks 17,330 out of 19,576. Before her are Arvind Kejriwal, Paul Bérenger, Zabiullah Mujahid, Betsy DeVos, Rita Verdonk, and Paul Boffa. After her are Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, John Cornyn, Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi, Andrey Lugovoy, Bruno Tshibala, and Augusto Santos Silva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Tulsi Giri ranks 503. Before her are David Tudor, Gulab Bai, Bob Sweikert, Paul Burke, John Clellon Holmes, and Tony Settember. After her are Valentin Kuzin, Jimmy Bryan, Rob Schroeder, Clive Donner, H. R. F. Keating, and Nikolai Tishchenko. Among people deceased in 2018, Tulsi Giri ranks 521. Before her are Bassano Staffieri, Alberto Fouilloux, Iraj Danaeifard, Carole Shelley, Edwin Hawkins, and Horace Ashenfelter. After her are Dipali Barthakur, Tim O'Connor, Vibeke Skofterud, Christine Muzio, Alan Geldard, and Javier González.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Tulsi Giri ranks 49 out of 59. Before her are Man Mohan Adhikari (1920), Kirti Nidhi Bista (1927), Nirmal Purja (1983), Baburam Bhattarai (1954), Ani Choying Drolma (1971), and Sahana Pradhan (1927). After her are Khil Raj Regmi (1949), Manisha Koirala (1970), Dichen Lachman (1982), Uma Devi Badi (null), Ram Sahaya Yadav (1971), and Khagendra Thapa Magar (1992).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nepal

Among politicians born in Nepal, Tulsi Giri ranks 31. Before her are Rana Bahadur Shah (1775), Lokendra Bahadur Chand (1940), Man Mohan Adhikari (1920), Kirti Nidhi Bista (1927), Baburam Bhattarai (1954), and Sahana Pradhan (1927). After her are Khil Raj Regmi (1949), Ram Sahaya Yadav (1971), Nanda Kishor Pun (1966), and Chanira Bajracharya (null).

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