1894 - 1969
Meher Baba (born Merwan Sheriar Irani; 25 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 major spiritual figure of the 20th century, he had a following of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly in India, but with a significant number in the United States, Europe, and Australia.Meher Baba's map of consciousness has been described as "a unique amalgam of Sufi, Vedic, and Yogic terminology". He taught that the goal of all beings was to gain consciousness of their own divinity, and to realise the absolute oneness of God.At the age of 19, Meher Baba began a seven-year period of spiritual transformation, during which he had encounters with Hazrat Babajan, Upasni Maharaj, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Tajuddin Baba, and Narayan Maharaj. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meher Baba has received more than 2,048,654 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Meher Baba is the 1,318th most popular religious figure (down from 1,158th in 2019), the 231st most popular biography from India (down from 180th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Indian Religious Figure.
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Among religious figures, Meher Baba ranks 1,318 out of 2,238. Before him are Theophilus Presbyter, Babylas of Antioch, George Alencherry, Macrina the Younger, Inayat Khan, and Ivo of Chartres. After him are Raffaele Riario, Antipope Adalbert, William M. Branham, Vitalis of Milan, Augustin Bea, and Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i.
1070 - 1125
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 1,312
238 - 251
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 1,313
1945 - Present
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 1,314
324 - 379
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 1,315
1882 - 1927
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 1,316
1040 - 1115
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 1,317
1894 - 1969
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 1,318
1461 - 1521
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 1,319
1001 - 1102
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 1,320
1909 - 1965
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 1,321
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 1,322
1881 - 1968
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 1,323
707 - 774
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 1,324
Among people born in 1894, Meher Baba ranks 83. Before him are Wäinö Aaltonen, Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Hans Kramers, Oskar Klein, René Fonck, and Trygve Gulbranssen. After him are Jacques Henri Lartigue, Albert Leo Schlageter, Gerhard Schmidhuber, Ivan Isakov, Julian Tuwim, and Paul Lukas. Among people deceased in 1969, Meher Baba ranks 71. Before him are Artur da Costa e Silva, Léon Brillouin, Lucien Bianchi, Ramón Grau, Vesto Slipher, and Kimon Georgiev. After him are Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Thelma Ritter, Jeffrey Hunter, Adolfo López Mateos, Coleman Hawkins, and Carlos Marighella.
1894 - 1966
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 77
1894 - 1964
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 78
1894 - 1952
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 79
1894 - 1977
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 80
1894 - 1953
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 81
1894 - 1962
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 82
1894 - 1969
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 83
1894 - 1986
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 84
1894 - 1923
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 85
1894 - 1945
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 86
1894 - 1967
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 87
1894 - 1953
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 88
1894 - 1971
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 89
1899 - 1969
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 65
1889 - 1969
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 66
1934 - 1969
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 67
1881 - 1969
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 68
1875 - 1969
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 69
1882 - 1969
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 70
1894 - 1969
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 71
1873 - 1969
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 72
1902 - 1969
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 73
1926 - 1969
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 74
1909 - 1969
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 75
1904 - 1969
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 76
1911 - 1969
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 77
Among people born in India, Meher Baba ranks 231 out of 1,493. Before him are Jamsetji Tata (1839), Khaleda Zia (1945), Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918), Tansen (1493), George Alencherry (1945), and Inayat Khan (1882). After him are Charan Singh (1902), Guru Angad (1504), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856), Rani Durgavati (1524), and Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (1556).
1839 - 1904
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 225
1945 - Present
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 226
1918 - 1999
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 227
1493 - 1493
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 228
1945 - Present
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 229
1882 - 1927
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 230
1894 - 1969
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 231
1902 - 1987
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 232
1504 - 1552
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 233
1910 - 2009
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 234
1856 - 1921
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 235
1524 - 1564
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 236
1556 - 1627
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 237
Among religious figures born in India, Meher Baba ranks 26. Before him are Mata Amritanandamayi (1953), Śāntarakṣita (725), Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), Tilopa (928), George Alencherry (1945), and Inayat Khan (1882). After him are Guru Angad (1504), Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856), Parshvanatha (-872), Zakir Naik (1965), Guru Amar Das (1479), and Mahinda (-285).
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 20
725 - 788
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 21
1865 - 1887
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 22
928 - 1009
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 23
1945 - Present
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 24
1882 - 1927
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 25
1894 - 1969
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 26
1504 - 1552
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 27
1856 - 1921
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 28
872 BC - Present
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 29
1965 - Present
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 30
1479 - 1574
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 31
285 BC - 205 BC
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 32