1869 - 1916
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (; Russian: Григорий Ефимович Распутин [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ rɐˈsputʲɪn]; 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1869 – 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic and holy man. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained considerable influence in the final years of the Russian Empire. Rasputin was born to a family of peasants in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye, located within Tyumensky Uyezd in Tobolsk Governorate (present-day Yarkovsky District in Tyumen Oblast). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grigori Rasputin has received more than 25,828,669 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Grigori Rasputin is the 2nd most popular occultist (up from 3rd in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Russia (up from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Occultist.
Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic who was said to have healing powers. He was also said to have been a sexual predator.
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Among occultists, Grigori Rasputin ranks 2 out of 37. Before him are Nostradamus. After him are Baba Vanga, John Dee, Helena Blavatsky, Count of St. Germain, Aleister Crowley, Alessandro Cagliostro, Anton LaVey, Allan Kardec, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, and Éliphas Lévi.
1503 - 1566
HPI: 83.96
Rank: 1
1869 - 1916
HPI: 82.60
Rank: 2
1911 - 1996
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 3
1527 - 1608
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 4
1831 - 1891
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 5
1712 - 1784
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 6
1875 - 1947
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 7
1743 - 1795
HPI: 69.70
Rank: 8
1930 - 1997
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 9
1804 - 1869
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 10
1486 - 1535
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 11
1810 - 1875
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1869, Grigori Rasputin ranks 2. Before him is Mahatma Gandhi. After him are Henri Matisse, Neville Chamberlain, André Gide, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Karl Haushofer, Emma Goldman, Fritz Pregl, and Hans Spemann. Among people deceased in 1916, Grigori Rasputin ranks 2. Before him is Franz Joseph I of Austria. After him are Jack London, Ernst Mach, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Yuan Shikai, Umberto Boccioni, Élie Metchnikoff, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Odilon Redon, Franz Marc, and William Ramsay.
1869 - 1948
HPI: 88.49
Rank: 1
1869 - 1916
HPI: 82.60
Rank: 2
1869 - 1954
HPI: 82.10
Rank: 3
1869 - 1940
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 4
1869 - 1951
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 5
1869 - 1947
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 6
1869 - 1959
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 7
1869 - 1939
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 8
1869 - 1946
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 9
1869 - 1940
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 10
1869 - 1930
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 11
1869 - 1941
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 12
1830 - 1916
HPI: 84.70
Rank: 1
1869 - 1916
HPI: 82.60
Rank: 2
1876 - 1916
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 3
1838 - 1916
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 4
1846 - 1916
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 5
1859 - 1916
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 6
1882 - 1916
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 7
1845 - 1916
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 8
1844 - 1916
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 9
1840 - 1916
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 10
1880 - 1916
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 11
1852 - 1916
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Grigori Rasputin ranks 16 out of 3,262. Before him are Boris Yeltsin (1931), Anton Chekhov (1860), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), and Ivan the Terrible (1530). After him are Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ivan Pavlov (1849), Wassily Kandinsky (1866), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Kim Jong-il (1941), and Isaac Asimov (1920).
1931 - 2007
HPI: 83.89
Rank: 10
1860 - 1904
HPI: 83.77
Rank: 11
1894 - 1971
HPI: 83.74
Rank: 12
1868 - 1918
HPI: 83.34
Rank: 13
1840 - 1893
HPI: 83.33
Rank: 14
1530 - 1584
HPI: 82.61
Rank: 15
1869 - 1916
HPI: 82.60
Rank: 16
1799 - 1837
HPI: 81.46
Rank: 17
1849 - 1936
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 18
1866 - 1944
HPI: 80.56
Rank: 19
1882 - 1971
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 20
1941 - 2011
HPI: 79.58
Rank: 21
1920 - 1992
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 22
Among occultists born in Russia, Grigori Rasputin ranks 1. After him are Nina Kulagina (1926) and Sergey Oldenburg (1863).
1869 - 1916
HPI: 82.60
Rank: 1
1926 - 1990
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 2
1863 - 1934
HPI: 46.59
Rank: 3