Kiran Bedi

Kiran Bedi is a former tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development.

9 June 1949

Born on the same birth day (9 June): Asko Paade • Eric Hobsbawm • Luis Kutner • Mike Fontenot • Nandini Satpathy • Parinya Charoenphol • Rudolf Wojtowicz • Wesley Sneijder

Born in the same month (June 1949): Alan Osmond • Alexander Scrymgeour, 12th Earl of Dundee • Antony Sher • Dan Dierdorf • Don Baylor • Elizabeth Gloster • Emanuel Ax • Frank Rich • Jens Böhrnsen • John Craven (economist) • John Wetton • Lindsay Wagner • Lionel Richie • Richard Clarke (bishop) • Ulla Schmidt • Vera Wang