1864 - 1933
Anagārika Dharmapāla (Pali: Anagārika, [ɐˈnɐɡaːɽɪkɐ]; Sinhalese: Anagarika, lit., Sinhala: අනගාරික ධර්මපාල; 17 September 1864 – 29 April 1933) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist and a writer. Anagarika Dharmapāla is noted because he was: the first global Buddhist missionary one of the founding contributors of non-violent Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism a leading figure in the Sri Lankan independence movement against British rule a pioneer in the revival of Buddhism in India after it had been virtually extinct for several centuries the first Buddhist in modern times to preach the Dhamma in three continents: Asia, North America, and Europe.Along with Henry Steel Olcott and Helena Blavatsky, the creators of the Theosophical Society, he was a major reformer and revivalist of Sinhala Buddhism and an important figure in its western transmission. He also inspired a mass movement of South Indian Dalits including Tamils to embrace Buddhism, half a century before B. R. Ambedkar. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anagarika Dharmapala has received more than 413,734 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Anagarika Dharmapala is the 2,273rd most popular writer (up from 2,579th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 15th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Sri Lankan Writer.
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Among writers, Anagarika Dharmapala ranks 2,273 out of 5,794. Before him are Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, Hallgrímur Pétursson, Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Noor Inayat Khan, Phylarchus, and Franz Overbeck. After him are Edgar Lee Masters, Ueda Akinari, Ammonius of Alexandria, Frigyes Karinthy, Ki no Tsurayuki, and Harlan Coben.
1125 - 1201
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 2,267
1614 - 1674
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 2,268
662 - 710
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 2,269
1914 - 1944
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 2,270
255 BC - Present
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 2,271
1837 - 1905
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 2,272
1864 - 1933
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 2,273
1868 - 1950
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 2,274
1734 - 1809
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 2,275
300 - Present
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 2,276
1887 - 1938
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 2,277
866 - 945
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 2,278
1962 - Present
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 2,279
Among people born in 1864, Anagarika Dharmapala ranks 71. Before him are Robert Grant Aitken, Carl Correns, Wilhelm Souchon, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Stefan Żeromski, and Đồng Khánh. After him are Ion I. C. Brătianu, Princess Hilda of Nassau, Roger Casement, Ante Trumbić, Herman Gorter, and Adolf Wölfli. Among people deceased in 1933, Anagarika Dharmapala ranks 48. Before him are Henri Duparc, Roscoe Arbuckle, Hermann von François, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Carl Correns, and Giovanni Giacometti. After him are Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Prince Alfons of Bavaria, Robert T. A. Innes, Sen Katayama, Takiji Kobayashi, and Princess Mathilde of Saxony.
1864 - 1951
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 65
1864 - 1933
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 66
1864 - 1946
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 67
1864 - 1913
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 68
1864 - 1925
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 69
1864 - 1889
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 70
1864 - 1933
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 71
1864 - 1927
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 72
1864 - 1952
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 73
1864 - 1916
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 74
1864 - 1938
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 75
1864 - 1927
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 76
1864 - 1930
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 77
1848 - 1933
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 42
1887 - 1933
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 43
1856 - 1933
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 44
1853 - 1933
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 45
1864 - 1933
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 46
1868 - 1933
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 47
1864 - 1933
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 48
1877 - 1933
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 49
1862 - 1933
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 50
1861 - 1933
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 51
1859 - 1933
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 52
1903 - 1933
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 53
1863 - 1933
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 54
Among people born in Sri Lanka, Anagarika Dharmapala ranks 10 out of 39. Before him are Aryadeva (200), Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877), Jack Churchill (1906), St John Philby (1885), William Chester Minor (1834), and Tony Hoare (1934). After him are Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), Michael Ondaatje (1943), Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), and D. S. Senanayake (1883).
200 - 250
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 4
1877 - 1947
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 5
1906 - 1996
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 6
1885 - 1960
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 7
1834 - 1920
HPI: 65.23
Rank: 8
1934 - Present
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 9
1864 - 1933
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 10
1945 - Present
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 11
1943 - Present
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 12
1945 - Present
HPI: 64.45
Rank: 13
1899 - 1959
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 14
1906 - 1996
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 15
1883 - 1952
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 16
Among writers born in Sri Lanka, Anagarika Dharmapala ranks 2. Before him are Aryadeva (200). After him are Michael Ondaatje (1943).
200 - 250
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 1
1864 - 1933
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 2
1943 - Present
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 3