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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Mahavatar Babaji

1900 - Today

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Mahavatar Babaji (IAST: Mahāvatāra Bābājī; lit. 'Great Avatar (Revered) Father') is the Himalayan yogi and guru who taught Kriya Yoga to Lahiri Mahasaya (1828–1895). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahavatar Babaji has received more than 2,721,390 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Mahavatar Babaji is the 647th most popular religious figure (up from 784th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from India (up from 111th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

Mahavatar Babaji is most famous for being the guru of Paramahansa Yogananda.

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  • 2.7M

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  • 64.56

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Mahavatar Babaji ranks 647 out of 2,238Before him are Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Hind bint Utbah, Pancras of Rome, Hans Küng, Pope Leo V, and Twosret. After him are Eli, Victor of Aveyron, Athenagoras I of Constantinople, Columbanus, Holofernes, and Norbert of Xanten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Mahavatar Babaji ranks 31Before him are Kurt Weill, Eyvind Johnson, Jan Oort, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Kuhn, and Edith Frank. After him are Chiune Sugihara, W. Edwards Deming, Karl Wolff, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Ragnar Granit, and Choe Yong-gon.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mahavatar Babaji ranks 76 out of 1,493Before him are Samudragupta (335), Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), Ravi Shankar (1920), Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), Rajendra Prasad (1884), and Rajiv Gandhi (1944). After him are Mumtaz Mahal (1593), Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Lata Mangeshkar (1929), Ajatashatru (-500), Ramana Maharshi (1879), and Sri Aurobindo (1872).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Mahavatar Babaji ranks 6Before him are Rama (null), Ānanda (-600), Sathya Sai Baba (1926), Mahavira (-599), and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486). After him are Mahākāśyapa (-550), Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), Maudgalyayana (-568), Radha (null), and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918).