1878 - 1973
Mirra Alfassa (21 February 1878 – 17 November 1973), known to her followers as The Mother or La Mère, was a French-Indian spiritual guru, occultist and yoga teacher, and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who considered her to be of equal yogic stature to him and called her by the name "The Mother". She founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and established the town of Auroville; she was influential on the subject of Integral Yoga. Mirra Alfassa (Mother) was born in Paris in 1878 to a Sephardi Jewish bourgeois family. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mirra Alfassa has received more than 1,104,753 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Mirra Alfassa is the 2,598th most popular writer (up from 2,735th in 2019), the 2,793rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,800th in 2019) and the 350th most popular French Writer.
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Among writers, Mirra Alfassa ranks 2,598 out of 5,755. Before her are Seichō Matsumoto, Guan Hanqing, Lois Lowry, Anton Bernolák, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Michele Ruggieri. After her are Martin Walser, K. Shivaram Karanth, Antiochus Kantemir, Herman Gorter, Leonard Woolf, and George Mosse.
1909 - 1992
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 2,592
1210 - 1280
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 2,593
1937 - Present
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 2,594
1762 - 1813
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 2,595
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 2,596
1543 - 1607
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 2,597
1878 - 1973
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 2,598
1927 - 2023
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 2,599
1902 - 1997
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 2,600
1708 - 1744
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 2,601
1864 - 1927
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 2,602
1880 - 1969
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 2,603
1918 - 1999
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 2,604
Among people born in 1878, Mirra Alfassa ranks 92. Before her are Charles Joughin, Michel Théato, Theodoros Pangalos, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Tullio Serafin, and Kurt Goldstein. After her are Mikhail Artsybashev, Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Otto Freundlich, Louis Camille Maillard, and Georgios Kondylis. Among people deceased in 1973, Mirra Alfassa ranks 107. Before her are Walter Krüger, Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Gabriel Voisin, Lorenzo Fernández, Vilhelm Moberg, and Robert Watson-Watt. After her are Laurens Hammond, Alexander Mosolov, Dean Corll, Alexander Vandegrift, Joseph Szigeti, and Karel Ančerl.
1878 - 1956
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 86
1878 - 1919
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 87
1878 - 1952
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 88
1878 - 1939
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 89
1878 - 1968
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 90
1878 - 1965
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 91
1878 - 1973
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 92
1878 - 1927
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 93
1878 - 1957
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 94
1878 - 1972
HPI: 52.84
Rank: 95
1878 - 1943
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 96
1878 - 1936
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 97
1878 - 1936
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 98
1892 - 1973
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 101
1888 - 1973
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 102
1880 - 1973
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 103
1900 - 1973
HPI: 53.41
Rank: 104
1898 - 1973
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 105
1892 - 1973
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 106
1878 - 1973
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 107
1895 - 1973
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 108
1900 - 1973
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 109
1939 - 1973
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 110
1887 - 1973
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 111
1892 - 1973
HPI: 52.85
Rank: 112
1908 - 1973
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 113
Among people born in France, Mirra Alfassa ranks 2,793 out of 6,011. Before her are Anne Jules de Noailles (1650), Pierre Wantzel (1814), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), Louis de Beaufront (1855), Alexandre Deschapelles (1780), and Maurizio Galbaio (800). After her are Auguste Vaillant (1861), Robert Casadesus (1899), François-Henri Pinault (1962), Albert Girard (1595), John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen (1638), and Bernadette Chirac (1933).
1650 - 1708
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 2,787
1814 - 1848
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 2,788
1788 - 1868
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 2,789
1855 - 1935
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 2,790
1780 - 1847
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 2,791
800 - 797
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 2,792
1878 - 1973
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 2,793
1861 - 1894
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 2,794
1899 - 1972
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 2,795
1962 - Present
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 2,796
1595 - 1632
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 2,797
1638 - 1704
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 2,798
1933 - Present
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 2,799
Among writers born in France, Mirra Alfassa ranks 350. Before her are Benoît de Sainte-Maure (1154), Renaud Camus (1946), André Salmon (1881), Jean Lorrain (1855), Oscar Cullmann (1902), and Gustave Kahn (1859). After her are Sylvain Maréchal (1750), Gustave Aimard (1818), Emmanuel Carrère (1957), Jules Guesde (1845), Hilaire Belloc (1870), and Pascal Bruckner (1948).
1154 - 1173
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 344
1946 - Present
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 345
1881 - 1969
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 346
1855 - 1906
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 347
1902 - 1999
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 348
1859 - 1936
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 349
1878 - 1973
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 350
1750 - 1803
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 351
1818 - 1883
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 352
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 353
1845 - 1922
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 354
1870 - 1953
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 355
1948 - Present
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 356