RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Guru Amar Das

1479 - 1574

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Guru Amar Das (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਅਮਰ ਦਾਸ, pronunciation: [gʊɾuː əməɾᵊ d̯aːsᵊ]; 5 May 1479 – 1 September 1574), sometimes spelled as Guru Amardas, was the third of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Sikh Guru on 26 March 1552 at age 73. Before becoming a Sikh (Shishya from Sanskrit), on a pilgrimage after having been prompted to search for a guru, he heard his nephew's wife, Bibi Amro, reciting a hymn by Guru Nanak, and was deeply moved by it. Amro was the daughter of Guru Angad, the second Guru of the Sikhs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guru Amar Das has received more than 1,085,285 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Guru Amar Das is the 1,389th most popular religious figure (up from 1,407th in 2019), the 260th most popular biography from India (down from 247th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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  • 3.69

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Guru Amar Das ranks 1,389 out of 3,187. Before him are Anatolius of Constantinople, Angelo Amato, Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje, Wolf Messing, João I of Kongo, and Violet Brown. After him are Antipope Sylvester IV, Willehad, Naropa, Zakir Naik, Ashkenaz, and Clare of Montefalco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1479, Guru Amar Das ranks 8. Before him are Hafsa Sultan, Lisa del Giocondo, Vasili III of Russia, Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours, Diego Columbus, and Peter Henlein. After him are Ippolito d'Este, Vallabha, Francisco de Montejo, Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg, Philip I, Margrave of Baden, and Catherine of York. Among people deceased in 1574, Guru Amar Das ranks 14. Before him are Maarten van Heemskerck, Ebussuud Efendi, Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry, Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé, and Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. After him are Louis of Nassau, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Damião de Góis, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Joachim Camerarius, and Gáspár Heltai.

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In India

Among people born in India, Guru Amar Das ranks 260 out of 1,861. Before him are Sanghamitta (-281), Farrukhsiyar (1685), Eknath (1533), Velu Nachiyar (1730), Kalpana Chawla (1961), and Vandana Shiva (1952). After him are Zakir Naik (1965), Mahinda (-285), Akbar II (1760), Salim Ali (1896), D. R. Bendre (1896), and M. Night Shyamalan (1970).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Guru Amar Das ranks 28. Before him are Guru Angad (1504), Parshvanatha (-872), Śāntarakṣita (725), Dashrath Manjhi (1934), Meher Baba (1894), and Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865). After him are Zakir Naik (1965), Mahinda (-285), Swaminarayan (1781), Tilopa (928), Inayat Khan (1882), and Telesphore Toppo (1939).

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