1621 - 1675
Guru Tegh Bahadur (Punjabi: ਗੁਰੂ ਤੇਗ਼ ਬਹਾਦਰ (Gurmukhi); Punjabi pronunciation: [gʊɾuː t̯eːɣ bəɦaːd̯ʊɾᵊ]; 1 April 1621 – 11 November 1675) was the ninth of ten Gurus who founded the Sikh religion and the leader of Sikhs from 1665 until his beheading in 1675. He was born in Amritsar, Punjab, India in 1621 and was the youngest son of Guru Hargobind, the sixth Sikh guru. Considered a principled and fearless warrior, he was a learned spiritual scholar and a poet whose 115 hymns are included in Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the main text of Sikhism. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guru Tegh Bahadur has received more than 2,552,815 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Guru Tegh Bahadur is the 6,610th most popular politician (up from 9,168th in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from India (up from 273rd in 2019) and the 58th most popular Indian Politician.
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Among politicians, Guru Tegh Bahadur ranks 6,610 out of 15,710. Before him are Masaniello, Salome I, Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia, Henry VII, Duke of Bavaria, Costas Simitis, and Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him are Guttorm of Norway, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Jacob Stainer, Perctarit, William I, Count of Hainaut, and Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga.
1620 - 1647
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 6,604
65 BC - 10
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 6,605
1144 - 1167
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 6,606
1005 - 1047
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 6,607
1936 - Present
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 6,608
1771 - 1815
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 6,609
1621 - 1675
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 6,610
1199 - 1204
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 6,611
1605 - 1661
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 6,612
1619 - 1683
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 6,613
645 - 688
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 6,614
1287 - 1337
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 6,615
1528 - 1576
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 6,616
Among people born in 1621, Guru Tegh Bahadur ranks 7. Before him are Jean de La Fontaine, Louis, Grand Condé, Amakusa Shirō, George II Rákóczi, Thomas Willis, and Petar Zrinski. After him are Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Allaert van Everdingen, Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, Isaac van Ostade, Shi Lang, and Matthew Locke. Among people deceased in 1675, Guru Tegh Bahadur ranks 11. Before him are James Gregory, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, Thomas Willis, Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, Gilles de Roberval, and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels. After him are Leopoldo de' Medici, Allaert van Everdingen, Feodosia Morozova, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Brynjólfur Sveinsson, and Jacques Marquette.
1621 - 1695
HPI: 81.75
Rank: 1
1621 - 1686
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 2
1621 - 1638
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 3
1621 - 1660
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 4
1621 - 1675
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 5
1621 - 1671
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 6
1621 - 1675
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 7
1621 - 1698
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 8
1621 - 1675
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 9
1621 - 1688
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 10
1621 - 1649
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 11
1621 - 1696
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 12
1621 - 1677
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 13
1638 - 1675
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 5
1601 - 1675
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 6
1621 - 1675
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 7
1604 - 1675
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 8
1602 - 1675
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 9
1602 - 1675
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 10
1621 - 1675
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 11
1617 - 1675
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 12
1621 - 1675
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 13
1632 - 1675
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 14
1596 - 1675
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 15
1605 - 1675
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 16
1637 - 1675
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 17
Among people born in India, Guru Tegh Bahadur ranks 185 out of 1,227. Before him are Pushyamitra Shunga (-300), Meher Baba (1894), Vandana Shiva (1952), Madhvacharya (1199), Siraj ud-Daulah (1733), and Lakshmi Mittal (1950). After him are Tansen (1493), Mithun Chakraborty (1950), Amrish Puri (1932), Guru Angad (1504), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), and Birbal (1528).
300 BC - 148 BC
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 179
1894 - 1969
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 180
1952 - Present
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 181
1199 - 1278
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 182
1733 - 1757
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 183
1950 - Present
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 184
1621 - 1675
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 185
1493 - 1493
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 186
1950 - Present
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 187
1932 - 2005
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 188
1504 - 1552
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 189
1942 - Present
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 190
1528 - 1586
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 191
Among politicians born in India, Guru Tegh Bahadur ranks 58. Before him are Shantanu (null), Zakir Husain (1897), Henry McMahon (1862), V. V. Giri (1894), Pushyamitra Shunga (-300), and Siraj ud-Daulah (1733). After him are Birbal (1528), Khaleda Zia (1945), Nizamuddin Auliya (1238), Motilal Nehru (1861), Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905), and Birsa Munda (1875).
HPI: 67.05
Rank: 52
1897 - 1969
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 53
1862 - 1949
HPI: 66.67
Rank: 54
1894 - 1980
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 55
300 BC - 148 BC
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 56
1733 - 1757
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 57
1621 - 1675
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 58
1528 - 1586
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 59
1945 - Present
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 60
1238 - 1325
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 61
1861 - 1931
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 62
1905 - 1977
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 63
1875 - 1900
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 64