The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Bangladesh
This page contains a list of the greatest Bangladeshi Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 2,238 Religious Figures, 2 of which were born in Bangladesh. This makes Bangladesh the birth place of the 90th most number of Religious Figures behind El Salvador and North Korea.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bangladeshi Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Bangladeshi Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Atiśa (982 - 1054)
With an HPI of 63.28, Atiśa is the most famous Bangladeshi Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 33 different languages on wikipedia.
Atīśa (c. 982–1054) was a Buddhist religious leader and master from Bengal. He is generally associated with his work carried out at the Vikramashila monastery in Bihar. He was one of the major figures in the spread of 11th-century Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism in Asia and inspired Buddhist thought from Tibet to Sumatra. He is recognised as one of the greatest figures of medieval Buddhism. Atiśa's chief disciple, Dromtön, was the founder of the Kadam school, one of the New Translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism, later supplanted by the Gelug tradition in the 14th century which adopted its teachings and absorbed its monasteries. In 2004, Atiśa was ranked 18th in the BBC's poll of the greatest Bengalis of all time.
2. Patrick D'Rozario (1943 - )
With an HPI of 44.78, Patrick D'Rozario is the 2nd most famous Bangladeshi Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Patrick D'Rozario, CSC (Bengali: প্যাট্রিক ডি'রোজারিও, romanized: Pyaṭrik ḍi'rojario; born 1 October 1943) is a Bangladeshi prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Dhaka from 2011 to 2020. He became a cardinal in 2016, the first from Bangladesh. He led other dioceses in Bangladesh from 1995 to 2010.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as religious figures born between 982 and 1943. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living religious figures include Patrick D'Rozario. The most famous deceased religious figures include Atiśa.
