1872 - 1953
Abdullah Yusuf Ali (; Urdu: عبداللہ یوسف علی; 14 April 1872 – 10 December 1953) was an Indian-British barrister who wrote a number of books about Islam, including an exegesis of the Qur'an. A supporter of the British war effort during World War I, Ali received the CBE in 1917 for his services to that cause. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdullah Yusuf Ali has received more than 572,607 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Abdullah Yusuf Ali is the 5,331st most popular writer (down from 4,745th in 2019), the 645th most popular biography from India (down from 553rd in 2019) and the 94th most popular Indian Writer.
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Among writers, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 5,331 out of 5,755. Before him are Vladimir Tendryakov, Katri Vala, Brad Falchuk, Judy Blume, Hugh Walpole, and Markus Zusak. After him are Elinor Glyn, R. M. Ballantyne, Peter Matthiessen, John Connolly, Remco Campert, and Colm Tóibín.
1923 - 1984
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 5,325
1901 - 1944
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 5,326
1971 - Present
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 5,327
1938 - Present
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 5,328
1884 - 1941
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 5,329
1975 - Present
HPI: 43.54
Rank: 5,330
1872 - 1953
HPI: 43.54
Rank: 5,331
1864 - 1943
HPI: 43.54
Rank: 5,332
1825 - 1894
HPI: 43.54
Rank: 5,333
1927 - 2014
HPI: 43.53
Rank: 5,334
1968 - Present
HPI: 43.53
Rank: 5,335
1929 - 2022
HPI: 43.53
Rank: 5,336
1955 - Present
HPI: 43.50
Rank: 5,337
Among people born in 1872, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 159. Before him are William Desmond Taylor, Leonid Sobinov, Giovanni Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Ivan Fomin, Julio Acosta García, and Feliciano Viera. After him are Joseph Rosemeyer, Joseph Barcroft, Dimitrios Drivas, Spyridon Chazapis, Siegfried Flesch, and Maurice Larrouy. Among people deceased in 1953, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 153. Before him are Maurice Vignerot, Josef Ternström, Auguste Giroux, Georg Zacharias, Henri Padé, and Francis Ford. After him are Arthur Berry, Luis Alberto Riart, Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg, Asaf Ali, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Robert Stangland.
1872 - 1922
HPI: 44.47
Rank: 153
1872 - 1934
HPI: 44.29
Rank: 154
1872 - 1952
HPI: 44.05
Rank: 155
1872 - 1936
HPI: 44.00
Rank: 156
1872 - 1954
HPI: 43.78
Rank: 157
1872 - 1927
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 158
1872 - 1953
HPI: 43.54
Rank: 159
1872 - 1919
HPI: 43.22
Rank: 160
1872 - 1947
HPI: 43.20
Rank: 161
1872 - 2000
HPI: 42.92
Rank: 162
1872 - 2000
HPI: 42.60
Rank: 163
1872 - 1939
HPI: 42.60
Rank: 164
1872 - 1968
HPI: 42.52
Rank: 165
1879 - 1953
HPI: 44.68
Rank: 147
1888 - 1953
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 148
1874 - 1953
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 149
1884 - 1953
HPI: 43.80
Rank: 150
1863 - 1953
HPI: 43.70
Rank: 151
1881 - 1953
HPI: 43.67
Rank: 152
1872 - 1953
HPI: 43.54
Rank: 153
1888 - 1953
HPI: 43.48
Rank: 154
1880 - 1953
HPI: 43.44
Rank: 155
1873 - 1953
HPI: 43.34
Rank: 156
1888 - 1953
HPI: 42.11
Rank: 157
1896 - 1953
HPI: 42.07
Rank: 158
1881 - 1953
HPI: 41.91
Rank: 159
Among people born in India, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 645 out of 1,493. Before him are Choudhry Rahmat Ali (1895), Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941), Nana Patekar (1951), R. K. Laxman (1921), Mrinalini Sarabhai (1918), and Telesphore Toppo (1939). After him are Sam Manekshaw (1914), S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940), Sheila Dikshit (1938), Spike Milligan (1918), Rambhadracharya (1950), and Godfrey Brown (1915).
1895 - 1951
HPI: 43.68
Rank: 639
1941 - Present
HPI: 43.63
Rank: 640
1951 - Present
HPI: 43.63
Rank: 641
1921 - 2015
HPI: 43.61
Rank: 642
1918 - 2016
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 643
1939 - 2023
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 644
1872 - 1953
HPI: 43.54
Rank: 645
1914 - 2008
HPI: 43.48
Rank: 646
1940 - Present
HPI: 43.42
Rank: 647
1938 - 2019
HPI: 43.41
Rank: 648
1918 - 2002
HPI: 43.40
Rank: 649
1950 - Present
HPI: 43.37
Rank: 650
1915 - 1995
HPI: 43.30
Rank: 651
Among writers born in India, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 94. Before him are Ravindra Kelekar (1925), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Amitav Ghosh (1956), Anita Desai (1937), Ismat Chughtai (1915), and Gurdial Singh (1933). After him are Pratibha Ray (1944), Javed Akhtar (1945), Kaifi Azmi (1919), Ruskin Bond (1934), Ravindra Prabhat (1969), and Fareed Zakaria (1964).
1925 - 2010
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 88
1866 - 1954
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 89
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.56
Rank: 90
1937 - Present
HPI: 44.55
Rank: 91
1915 - 1991
HPI: 44.44
Rank: 92
1933 - 2016
HPI: 44.12
Rank: 93
1872 - 1953
HPI: 43.54
Rank: 94
1944 - Present
HPI: 42.59
Rank: 95
1945 - Present
HPI: 42.25
Rank: 96
1919 - 2002
HPI: 42.20
Rank: 97
1934 - Present
HPI: 41.85
Rank: 98
1969 - Present
HPI: 41.64
Rank: 99
1964 - Present
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 100