Profiles — Politics
Heads of state, legislators and public servants, and the offices and decisions that shaped their careers.
Indian political figure
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam ( UB-duul kə-LAHM; 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace engineer and science administrator who served as president of India from 2002 to 2007.
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Amit Anilchandra Shah (born 22 October 1964) is an Indian politician who is serving as the 31st Minister of Home Affairs since 2019, the longest-serving holder of the office in Indian history.
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Arvind Kejriwal (Hindi pronunciation: [əɾʋɪn̪d̪ keːd͡ʒɾiːʋɑːl]; born 16 August 1968) is an Indian politician, activist and former bureaucrat, who served as the 7th Chief Minister of Delhi.
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian statesman and a poet who served as the prime minister of India, from 1998 to 2004, and previously for two weeks in 1996.
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and politician who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau.
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Droupadi Murmu (born Durgi Tudu; 20 June 1958) is an Indian politician who has served as the president of India since 2022.
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Hans-Georg Friedrich Ludwig Robert von Friedeburg was a German admiral, the deputy commander of the U-boat Forces of Nazi Germany and the second-to-last Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
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Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany.
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Herta Oberheuser was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp.
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