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B. K. S. Iyengar

1918 - 2014

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Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar (14 December 1918 – 20 August 2014) was an Indian teacher of yoga and author. He is the founder of the style of yoga as exercise, known as "Iyengar Yoga", and was considered one of the foremost yoga gurus in the world. He was the author of many books on yoga practice and philosophy including Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and Light on Life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of B. K. S. Iyengar has received more than 2,416,343 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). B. K. S. Iyengar is the 1,497th most popular writer (down from 1,249th in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from India (down from 148th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 36

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  • 3.68

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Notable Works

Yoga
Hatha yoga, Yoga, Therapeutic use
2001
The tree of yoga
Yoga
1989
Light on yoga
Hatha yoga, Yoga
1965
Illustrated Light on Yoga
Hatha yoga
2000
The concise light on yoga =
Hatha yoga, Yoga, Hatha, Yoga, Haṭha
1980
Light on Prānāyāma
Breathing exercises, Hatha yoga, Hatha Yoga
1981

Among WRITERS

Among writers, B. K. S. Iyengar ranks 1,497 out of 7,302. Before him are Heiner Müller, Adam Oehlenschläger, Stéphane Hessel, Gil Vicente, Robert Jordan, and Salvian. After him are Nora Roberts, Georges Duhamel, Ibn al-Khatib, Elsa Beskow, Guillaume de Lorris, and Aksel Sandemose.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, B. K. S. Iyengar ranks 75. Before him are Robert Aldrich, John Forsythe, João Figueiredo, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Edward A. Murphy Jr., and Spiro Agnew. After him are Fernando Peyroteo, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria, Jin Youzhi, Henry Calvin, and Philip José Farmer. Among people deceased in 2014, B. K. S. Iyengar ranks 84. Before him are Malcolm Glazer, Karl Albrecht, Larry Scott, Ralph H. Baer, Joan Rivers, and Gottfried John. After him are Run Run Shaw, Riz Ortolani, Mike Nichols, Milan Galić, Louis Zamperini, and Jean-Luc Dehaene.

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In India

Among people born in India, B. K. S. Iyengar ranks 191 out of 1,861. Before him are Kamala Sohonie (1912), Anthony de Mello (1931), Narayana Guru (1855), Kishore Kumar (1929), George Alencherry (1945), and A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896). After him are Shilpa Shetty (1975), M. Visvesvaraya (1861), Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Amrish Puri (1932), Hema Malini (1948), and Andal (800).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, B. K. S. Iyengar ranks 32. Before him are Namdev (1270), Subramania Bharati (1882), Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Mahadevi Varma (1907), and Dnyaneshwar (1275). After him are Andal (800), Kuvempu (1904), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), Anna Leonowens (1831), and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876).

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