RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Guru Angad

1504 - 1552

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Guru Angad (31 March 1504 – 29 March 1552; Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਅੰਗਦ, pronunciation: [gʊɾuː əŋgəd̯ᵊ]) was the second of the ten Sikh gurus of Sikhism. After meeting Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, becoming a Sikh, and serving and working with Nanak for many years, Nanak gave Lehna the name Angad ("my own limb"), and chose Angad as the second Sikh Guru. After the death of Guru Nanak in 1539, Guru Angad led the Sikh tradition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guru Angad has received more than 1,115,836 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Guru Angad is the 1,158th most popular religious figure (up from 1,315th in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from India (up from 230th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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  • 58.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Guru Angad ranks 1,158 out of 3,187. Before him are George Hamartolos, Maria Celeste, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Cláudio Hummes, Meletius of Antioch, and Henry Benedict Stuart. After him are Saint Mercurius, Angelus of Jerusalem, Henry Molaison, Sinchi Roca, Alexandre do Nascimento, and Irinej, Serbian Patriarch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1504, Guru Angad ranks 8. Before him are Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, Francesco Primaticcio, Sin Saimdang, Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy, Heinrich Bullinger, and George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford. After him are John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Scipione Rebiba, Louis of Granada, Charles Estienne, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, and Stanislaus Hosius. Among people deceased in 1552, Guru Angad ranks 9. Before him are Sebastian Münster, Basil Fool for Christ, Petrus Apianus, Paolo Giovio, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and Olaus Petri. After him are Andreas Osiander, Antonio de Mendoza, Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg, Pierre Attaingnant, and Qiu Ying.

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In India

Among people born in India, Guru Angad ranks 205 out of 1,861. Before him are Pushyamitra Shunga (-300), Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Thiruvalluvar (350), Feroze Gandhi (1912), and Ram Narayan (1927). After him are Parshvanatha (-872), Morarji Desai (1896), Charan Singh (1902), Tarabai (1675), Rajesh Khanna (1942), and Śāntarakṣita (725).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Guru Angad ranks 22. Before him are Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856), Guru Arjan (1563), Jayadeva (1170), Anthony de Mello (1931), George Alencherry (1945), and A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896). After him are Parshvanatha (-872), Śāntarakṣita (725), Dashrath Manjhi (1934), Meher Baba (1894), Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), and Guru Amar Das (1479).

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