RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Meher Baba

1894 - 1969

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Meher Baba (born Merwan Sheriar Irani; 25 February [O.S. 17 February] 1894 – 31 January 1969) was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar, or God in human form, of the age. A spiritual figure of the 20th century, he had a following of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly in India, with a smaller number of followers in North America, Europe, South America, and Australia. Meher Baba's map of consciousness has been described as "a unique amalgam of Sufi, Vedic, and Yogic terminology". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meher Baba has received more than 2,183,137 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Meher Baba is the 1,332nd most popular religious figure (down from 1,307th in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from India (down from 228th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Meher Baba ranks 1,332 out of 3,187. Before him are Carlo Maria Martini, Andrew Bobola, Renato Martino, Raymonde de Laroche, Andrew Avellino, and Brigid of Kildare. After him are David Yonggi Cho, George Müller, Simon Stock, Fariduddin Ganjshakar, Urraca of Zamora, and Victor of Marseilles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Meher Baba ranks 81. Before him are Friedrich Hossbach, Friedrich Ebert Jr., Erwin Schulhoff, Oskar Klein, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and Prince René of Bourbon-Parma. After him are Józef Beck, Boris Lyatoshinsky, Gerhard Schmidhuber, José Carlos Mariátegui, René Fonck, and Nedo Nadi. Among people deceased in 1969, Meher Baba ranks 70. Before him are Wilhelm Backhaus, Frederic Bartlett, Kimon Georgiev, Prince Konrad of Bavaria, Mikio Naruse, and Adolfo López Mateos. After him are Léon Brillouin, Michael Lippert, Claude Dornier, John Kennedy Toole, He Long, and C. N. Annadurai.

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In India

Among people born in India, Meher Baba ranks 241 out of 1,861. Before him are Aamir Khan (1965), C. Rajagopalachari (1878), Kadambini Ganguly (1861), Jahanara Begum (1614), Jayaprakash Narayan (1902), and Ratan Tata (1937). After him are Shantanu (null), Surdas (1478), Mir Jafar (1691), Liaquat Ali Khan (1895), Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), and Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Meher Baba ranks 26. Before him are George Alencherry (1945), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), Guru Angad (1504), Parshvanatha (-872), Śāntarakṣita (725), and Dashrath Manjhi (1934). After him are Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), Guru Amar Das (1479), Zakir Naik (1965), Mahinda (-285), Swaminarayan (1781), and Tilopa (928).

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