476 - 550
Aryabhata (ISO: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I (476–550 CE) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer of the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. He flourished in the Gupta period and produced works such as the Aryabhatiya (which mentions that in 3600 Kali Yuga, 499 CE, he was 23 years old) and the Arya-siddhanta. Aryabhata created a system of phonemic number notation in which numbers were represented by consonant-vowel monosyllables. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aryabhata has received more than 7,891,691 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia. Aryabhata is the 17th most popular astronomer (up from 23rd in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from India (up from 38th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Astronomer.
Aryabhata was a mathematician and astronomer who is most famous for developing the concept of zero and the number system that is used today.
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Among astronomers, Aryabhata ranks 17 out of 531. Before him are Ulugh Beg, Hipparchus, Ole Rømer, Ja'far al-Sadiq, Carl Sagan, and Giovanni Domenico Cassini. After him are Neil deGrasse Tyson, Edmond Halley, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Robert Woodrow Wilson, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, and Charles Messier.
1394 - 1449
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 11
190 BC - 120 BC
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 12
1644 - 1710
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 13
702 - 765
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 14
1934 - 1996
HPI: 71.94
Rank: 15
1625 - 1712
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 16
476 - 550
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 17
1958 - Present
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 18
1656 - 1742
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 19
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 20
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 21
903 - 986
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 22
1730 - 1817
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 23
Among people born in 476, Aryabhata ranks 1. Among people deceased in 550, Aryabhata ranks 1. After him are Cosmas Indicopleustes, Damascius, and Buddhapālita.
476 - 550
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 1
600 - 550
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 2
480 - 550
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 3
470 - 550
HPI: 47.87
Rank: 4
Among people born in India, Aryabhata ranks 31 out of 1,493. Before him are Subhas Chandra Bose (1897), Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895), Sathya Sai Baba (1926), Kabir (1440), Adi Shankara (788), and Valmiki (-80). After him are Aurangzeb (1618), Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888), Padmasambhava (717), Amartya Sen (1933), Mahavira (-599), and Julie Christie (1940).
1897 - 1945
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 25
1895 - 1986
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 26
1926 - 2011
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 27
1440 - 1518
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 28
788 - 820
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 29
80 BC - 2 BC
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 30
476 - 550
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 31
1618 - 1707
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 32
1888 - 1975
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 33
717 - 762
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 34
1933 - Present
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 35
599 BC - 527 BC
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 36
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.06
Rank: 37
Among astronomers born in India, Aryabhata ranks 1. After him are Varāhamihira (505).