RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Bahá'u'lláh

1817 - 1892

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Baháʼu'lláh (born Ḥusayn-ʻAlí; 12 November 1817 – 29 May 1892) was an Iranian religious leader who founded the Baháʼí Faith. He was born to an aristocratic family in Iran and was exiled due to his adherence to the messianic Bábi Faith. In 1863, in Iraq, he first announced his claim to a revelation from God and spent the rest of his life in further imprisonment in the Ottoman Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bahá'u'lláh has received more than 1,206,906 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Bahá'u'lláh is the 366th most popular religious figure (down from 318th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Iran (down from 41st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

Bahá'u'lláh is most famous for being the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 74.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 86

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Bahá'u'lláh ranks 366 out of 3,187. Before him are Philip Neri, Pope Leo VII, Sathya Sai Baba, Saint Spyridon, Al-Mansur, and Pope Anastasius I. After him are Pope Soter, Pope Clement III, Pope Sergius I, James, son of Alphaeus, Pope Anicetus, and Sabbatai Zevi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Bahá'u'lláh ranks 5. Before him are Henry David Thoreau, Theodor Mommsen, William III of the Netherlands, and Ivan Aivazovsky. After him are Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Charles-François Daubigny, Niels Gade, Syed Ahmad Khan, Princess Clémentine of Orléans, and Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen. Among people deceased in 1892, Bahá'u'lláh ranks 4. Before him are Werner von Siemens, Walt Whitman, and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria. After him are Ernest Renan, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, Richard Owen, Édouard Lalo, Thomas Cook, Rudolf von Jhering, John Couch Adams, and Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Bahá'u'lláh ranks 48 out of 631. Before him are Jami (1414), Farah Pahlavi (1938), Shapur I (150), Ardashir I (180), Cambyses I (-600), and Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903). After him are Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247), Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882), Doris Lessing (1919), Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932), Yazdegerd III (624), and Shirin Ebadi (1947).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Bahá'u'lláh ranks 7. Before him are Zoroaster (-2000), Ruhollah Khomeini (1902), Esther (-600), Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078), and Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817). After him are Báb (1819), Ibn Majah (824), Mordecai (null), Sasan (200), Anastasius of Persia (550), and Piruz Nahavandi (700).

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