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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

1896 - 1977

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Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (IAST: Abhaya Caraṇāravinda Bhakti-vedānta Svāmī Prabhupāda; 1 September 1896 – 14 November 1977) was the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the "Hare Krishna movement". Followers of ISKCON view Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada as a representative and messenger of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.Born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) to a Suvarna Banik family, he was educated at the Scottish Church College. While working at a small pharmaceutical business, he met and became a follower of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has received more than 2,641,447 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is the 1,077th most popular religious figure (down from 780th in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from India (down from 109th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is most famous for his translations of the Bhagavad Gita and the Srimad Bhagavatam.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 1,077 out of 2,238. Before him are Fermin, Jakob Ammann, Hugh of Cluny, John Eudes, Shoghi Effendi, and Caesarius of Arles. After him are Marcial Maciel, Günter Guillaume, George Syncellus, Raymond Nonnatus, John of Montecorvino, and Dom Justo Takayama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 74. Before him are Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Morarji Desai, Heo Jeong, Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, Boris Skossyreff, and Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia. After him are Mark W. Clark, Salim Ali, Agustín Muñoz Grandes, Tadj ol-Molouk, Ruth Gordon, and Hinrich Lohse. Among people deceased in 1977, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 53. Before him are Sepp Herberger, Paul Desmond, Leopold Stokowski, Princess Margaretha of Sweden, Marc Bolan, and Hamida Djandoubi. After him are Eduard Roschmann, Juan Velasco Alvarado, Carlos Pace, Takeo Kurita, Alia Al-Hussein, and Yevgenia Ginzburg.

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In India

Among people born in India, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 177 out of 1,493. Before him are Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703), Ram Narayan (1927), Sivananda Saraswati (1887), Chandrakirti (600), Pushyamitra Shunga (-300), and Tarabai (1675). After him are Andal (800), Guru Arjan (1563), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Deepak Chopra (1946), M. Night Shyamalan (1970), and Abdul Karim (1863).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 17. Before him are Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), Anthony de Mello (1931), Ravi Shankar (1956), Jayadeva (1170), and Sai Baba of Shirdi (1835). After him are Guru Arjan (1563), Mata Amritanandamayi (1953), Śāntarakṣita (725), Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), George Alencherry (1945), and Meher Baba (1894).

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