1941 - Today
Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (born 27 April 1941) is a Turkish Islamic scholar, preacher, and a one-time opinion leader (as de facto leader of the Gülen movement: an international, faith-based civil society organization once aligned with Turkey's government, but since then outlawed as an alleged "armed terrorist group"). Gülen is designated an influential Ottomanist, Anatolian panethnicist, Islamic poet, writer, social critic, and activist–dissident developing a Nursian theological perspective that embraces democratic modernity, as a citizen of Turkey (until his denaturalization by the government in 2017) he was a local state imam from 1959 to 1981. Over the years, Gülen became a centrist political figure in Turkey prior his there being as a fugitive. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fethullah Gülen has received more than 2,235,000 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Fethullah Gülen is the 283rd most popular religious figure (up from 315th in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from Turkey (up from 133rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Turkish Religious Figure.
Fethullah Gülen is most famous for being a Turkish Muslim scholar and preacher who is the founder of the Gülen movement.
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Among religious figures, Fethullah Gülen ranks 283 out of 2,272. Before him are Pope Adrian II, Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib, Pope Honorius IV, Marcion of Sinope, Pope Anacletus, and Demetrius of Thessaloniki. After him are Pope Innocent IV, Pope Boniface I, Pope Benedict II, Ephrem the Syrian, Moses in Islam, and Rebecca.
792 - 872
HPI: 77.62
Rank: 277
539 - 619
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 278
1210 - 1287
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 279
85 - 160
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 280
1 - 92
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 281
270 - 306
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 282
1941 - Present
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 283
1195 - 1254
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 284
370 - 422
HPI: 77.46
Rank: 285
635 - 685
HPI: 77.43
Rank: 286
306 - 373
HPI: 77.41
Rank: 287
1392 BC - 1272 BC
HPI: 77.37
Rank: 288
259 - Present
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 289
Among people born in 1941, Fethullah Gülen ranks 13. Before him are Plácido Domingo, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Mattarella, Bernie Sanders, Cesária Évora, and Richard Dawkins. After him are Dick Cheney, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Bruno Ganz, Martha Argerich, Lee Myung-bak, and Nick Nolte.
1941 - Present
HPI: 80.00
Rank: 7
1941 - 2018
HPI: 79.78
Rank: 8
1941 - Present
HPI: 79.52
Rank: 9
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 10
1941 - 2011
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 11
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 12
1941 - Present
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 13
1941 - Present
HPI: 77.32
Rank: 14
1941 - 1996
HPI: 77.23
Rank: 15
1941 - 2019
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 16
1941 - Present
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 17
1941 - Present
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 18
1941 - Present
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 19
Among people born in Turkey, Fethullah Gülen ranks 113 out of 1,128. Before him are Saint Timothy (17), Şehzade Mehmed (1522), Leo I the Thracian (401), Artemisia I of Caria (-500), Chrysippus (-281), and Marcion of Sinope (85). After him are Enver Pasha (1881), Apelles (-370), Ephrem the Syrian (306), Zeno (425), Bartholomew I of Constantinople (1940), and John I Tzimiskes (925).
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HPI: 77.77
Rank: 107
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HPI: 77.65
Rank: 108
401 - 474
HPI: 77.62
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500 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 110
281 BC - 208 BC
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 111
85 - 160
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 112
1941 - Present
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 113
1881 - 1922
HPI: 77.42
Rank: 114
370 BC - 306 BC
HPI: 77.42
Rank: 115
306 - 373
HPI: 77.41
Rank: 116
425 - 491
HPI: 77.38
Rank: 117
1940 - Present
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 118
925 - 976
HPI: 77.35
Rank: 119
Among religious figures born in Turkey, Fethullah Gülen ranks 15. Before him are Saint Pantaleon (275), Irenaeus (130), Photios I of Constantinople (900), Sabbatai Zevi (1626), Saint Timothy (17), and Marcion of Sinope (85). After him are Ephrem the Syrian (306), Bartholomew I of Constantinople (1940), Ignatius of Antioch (35), Ulfilas (311), Gregory of Nyssa (335), and Simeon Stylites (389).
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HPI: 79.14
Rank: 9
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HPI: 78.87
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900 - 896
HPI: 78.01
Rank: 11
1626 - 1676
HPI: 77.96
Rank: 12
17 - 97
HPI: 77.77
Rank: 13
85 - 160
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 14
1941 - Present
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 15
306 - 373
HPI: 77.41
Rank: 16
1940 - Present
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 17
35 - 108
HPI: 77.29
Rank: 18
311 - 383
HPI: 77.29
Rank: 19
335 - 395
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 20
389 - 459
HPI: 76.89
Rank: 21