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 6,759,604 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Guru Gobind Singh is the 567th most popular religious figure (up from 708th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from India (up from 93rd in 2019) and the 5th 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 567 out of 3,187. Before him are Ali al-Hadi, Antipope Alexander V, Al-Suyuti, Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Al-Nasa'i, and Pope Donus. After him are Jephthah, Pope Hyginus, Junayd of Baghdad, Pope Romanus, Pope Eleutherius, and Zayd ibn Ali.

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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, Marie Anne de Bourbon, Maria Sophia of Neuburg, Antonio Maria Valsalva, Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma, Jean-Féry Rebel, Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, and Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau. Among people deceased in 1708, Guru Gobind Singh ranks 1. After him are Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Prince George of Denmark, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Seki Takakazu, Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, 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 63 out of 1,861. Before him are Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924), Zubin Mehta (1936), Radha (null), Lata Mangeshkar (1929), Premchand (1880), and Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775). After him are Aśvaghoṣa (80), Mumtaz Mahal (1593), Padmasambhava (717), Satyajit Ray (1921), Julie Christie (1940), and Rajiv Gandhi (1944).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Guru Gobind Singh ranks 5. Before him are Mahavira (-599), Ānanda (-600), Sathya Sai Baba (1926), and Radha (null). After him are Mahākāśyapa (-550), Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), Maudgalyayana (-568), Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), Mahavatar Babaji (1900), Ravi Shankar (1956), and Mata Amritanandamayi (1953).

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