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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Guru Gobind Singh

1666 - 1708

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Guru Gobind Singh (Punjabi pronunciation: [gʊɾuː goːbɪn̪d̪ᵊ sɪ́ŋgᵊ]; born Gobind Das; 22 December 1666 – 7 October 1708) was the tenth and last human Sikh Guru. He was a warrior, poet, and philosopher. In 1675, at the age of nine he was formally installed as the leader of the Sikhs after his father Guru Tegh Bahadur was executed by Emperor Aurangzeb. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guru Gobind Singh has received more than 6,305,859 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Guru Gobind Singh is the 713th most popular religious figure (up from 751st in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from India (up from 101st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

Guru Gobind Singh is most famous for founding the Sikh religion and being the last human guru.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Guru Gobind Singh ranks 713 out of 2,238. Before him are Athenagoras of Athens, Pope Adrian IV, Émile Benveniste, Erasmus of Formia, Romanos the Melodist, and Johann Tetzel. After him are Paulo Miki, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Antipope Ursicinus, Eusebius of Nicomedia, and Theophilus of Antioch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1666, Guru Gobind Singh ranks 3. Before him are Ivan V of Russia and Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia. After him are Sophia Dorothea of Celle, Stephen Gray, Maria Sophia of Neuburg, Marie Anne de Bourbon, Antonio Maria Valsalva, Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma, Jean-Féry Rebel, Marie Thérèse de Bourbon, and Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau. Among people deceased in 1708, Guru Gobind Singh ranks 2. Before him is Jules Hardouin-Mansart. After him are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Prince George of Denmark, Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, Seki Takakazu, Ludolf Bakhuizen, John Blow, and Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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In India

Among people born in India, Guru Gobind Singh ranks 94 out of 1,493. Before him are Nathuram Godse (1910), Gerald Durrell (1925), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Chandragupta II (400), and Vishvamitra (-2000). After him are Varāhamihira (505), Ramanuja (1017), Maharana Pratap (1540), Razia Sultana (1205), Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), and Lawrence Durrell (1912).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Guru Gobind Singh ranks 8. Before him are Ānanda (-600), Sathya Sai Baba (1926), Mahavira (-599), Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), Mahavatar Babaji (1900), and Mahākāśyapa (-550). After him are Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), Maudgalyayana (-568), Radha (null), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), and Anthony de Mello (1931).

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