1817 - 1892
Baháʼu'lláh (born Ḥusayn-ʻAlí; 12 November 1817 – 29 May 1892) was the founder of the Baháʼí Faith. He was born to an aristocratic family in Persia and was exiled due to his adherence to the messianic Bábí 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 1,180,577 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Bahá'u'lláh is the 323rd most popular religious figure (down from 270th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Iran (down from 35th 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.
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Among religious figures, Bahá'u'lláh ranks 323 out of 2,238. Before him are Tiye, Matteo Ricci, Pope Felix III, Pope Alexander IV, Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, and Idris. After him are Pope Marinus I, Marcion of Sinope, Pope Pelagius II, Pope Anacletus, Abu Hurairah, and Alcuin.
1398 BC - 1338 BC
HPI: 70.14
Rank: 317
1552 - 1610
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 318
440 - 492
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 319
1200 - 1261
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 320
624 - 692
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 321
3500 BC - Present
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 322
1817 - 1892
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 323
830 - 884
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 324
85 - 160
HPI: 70.06
Rank: 325
520 - 590
HPI: 70.00
Rank: 326
1 - 92
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 327
600 - 676
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 328
735 - 804
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 329
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, Charles-François Daubigny, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Syed Ahmad Khan, Princess Clémentine of Orléans, and Niels Gade. Among people deceased in 1892, Bahá'u'lláh ranks 3. Before him are Walt Whitman and Werner von Siemens. After him are Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Ernest Renan, Thomas Cook, Richard Owen, Édouard Lalo, Rudolf von Jhering, John Couch Adams, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia.
1817 - 1862
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 1
1817 - 1903
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 2
1817 - 1890
HPI: 70.45
Rank: 3
1817 - 1900
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 4
1817 - 1892
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 5
1817 - 1898
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 6
1817 - 1878
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 7
1817 - 1905
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 8
1817 - 1895
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 9
1817 - 1898
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 10
1817 - 1907
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 11
1817 - 1890
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 12
1819 - 1892
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 1
1816 - 1892
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 2
1817 - 1892
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 3
1808 - 1892
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 4
1823 - 1892
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 5
1808 - 1892
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 6
1804 - 1892
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 7
1823 - 1892
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 8
1818 - 1892
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 9
1819 - 1892
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 10
1837 - 1892
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 11
1827 - 1892
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 12
Among people born in Iran, Bahá'u'lláh ranks 41 out of 528. Before him are Antiochus III the Great (-241), Ardashir I (180), Shapur I (150), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), Shams Tabrizi (1185), and Farah Pahlavi (1938). After him are Cambyses I (-600), Saadi Shirazi (1210), Astyages (-700), Abolhassan Banisadr (1933), Yazdegerd III (624), and Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247).
241 BC - 187 BC
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 35
180 - 242
HPI: 70.78
Rank: 36
150 - 270
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 37
817 - 875
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 38
1185 - 1248
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 39
1938 - Present
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 40
1817 - 1892
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 41
600 BC - 559 BC
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 42
1210 - 1291
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 43
700 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 44
1933 - 2021
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 45
624 - 652
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 46
1247 - 1318
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 47
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), Piruz Nahavandi (700), Mordecai (null), Sasan (200), and `Abdu'l-Bahá (1844).
2000 BC - 2000 BC
HPI: 86.19
Rank: 1
1902 - 1989
HPI: 77.83
Rank: 2
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 76.09
Rank: 3
1050 - 1124
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 4
1078 - 1166
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 5
817 - 875
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 6
1817 - 1892
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 7
1819 - 1850
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 8
824 - 886
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 9
700 - 644
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 10
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 11
200 - 300
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 12
1844 - 1921
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 13