1877 - 1938
Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Urdu: محمد اقبال; 9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938) was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in the Urdu language is thought by many to be among the greatest of the twentieth century, and whose vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India was to animate the impulse for Pakistan. He is commonly referred to by the honorific Allama (from Persian علامه ʻallāma, "very knowing, most learned".) Born and raised in Sialkot, Punjab (present-day Pakistan) in an ethnic Kashmiri family, Iqbal studied in Sialkot and Lahore, and thereafter in England and Germany. Although he established a law practice after returning, he concentrated primarily on writing scholarly works on politics, economics, history, philosophy, and religion. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad Iqbal has received more than 4,173,394 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Muhammad Iqbal is the 500th most popular writer (up from 530th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Writer.
Muhammad Iqbal is most famous for being a poet and philosopher. He is also known for being the first person to translate the Quran into English, and for being a founding member of the All-India Muslim League.
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Among writers, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 500 out of 5,794. Before him are Jules Michelet, Ludvig Holberg, George Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, D. H. Lawrence, and Octavio Paz. After him are Frank Herbert, Ellen G. White, George Steiner, Giorgos Seferis, Héloïse, and Abai Qunanbaiuly.
1798 - 1874
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 494
1684 - 1754
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 495
1819 - 1880
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 496
1926 - 1997
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 497
1885 - 1930
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 498
1914 - 1998
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 499
1877 - 1938
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 500
1920 - 1986
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 501
1827 - 1915
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 502
1929 - 2020
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 503
1900 - 1971
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 504
1101 - 1164
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 505
1845 - 1904
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 506
Among people born in 1877, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 10. Before him are Hjalmar Schacht, Wilhelm Frick, G. H. Hardy, Frederick Soddy, Charles Glover Barkla, and Edgar Cayce. After him are Francis William Aston, Joan Gamper, Louis Renault, Raoul Dufy, Heinrich Otto Wieland, and Kees van Dongen. Among people deceased in 1938, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 18. Before him are Karl Kautsky, Robert Johnson, Thomas Wolfe, Carl von Ossietzky, Alexei Rykov, and Genrikh Yagoda. After him are Gabriele D'Annunzio, Mary Mallon, Suzanne Valadon, Osip Mandelstam, Maud of Wales, and Bruno Taut.
1877 - 1970
HPI: 77.79
Rank: 4
1877 - 1946
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 5
1877 - 1947
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 6
1877 - 1956
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 7
1877 - 1944
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 8
1877 - 1945
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 9
1877 - 1938
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 10
1877 - 1945
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 11
1877 - 1930
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 12
1877 - 1944
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 13
1877 - 1953
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 14
1877 - 1957
HPI: 72.17
Rank: 15
1877 - 1968
HPI: 72.15
Rank: 16
1854 - 1938
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 12
1911 - 1938
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 13
1900 - 1938
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 14
1889 - 1938
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 15
1881 - 1938
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 16
1891 - 1938
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 17
1877 - 1938
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 18
1863 - 1938
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 19
1869 - 1938
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 20
1865 - 1938
HPI: 73.57
Rank: 21
1891 - 1938
HPI: 73.21
Rank: 22
1869 - 1938
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 23
1880 - 1938
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 24
Among people born in Pakistan, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 5 out of 158. Before him are Akbar (1542), Shah Jahan (1592), Chanakya (-375), and Guru Nanak (1469). After him are Bhagat Singh (1907), Porus (-400), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), Pāṇini (-500), Benazir Bhutto (1953), and Vasubandhu (400).
1542 - 1605
HPI: 82.79
Rank: 1
1592 - 1666
HPI: 79.61
Rank: 2
375 BC - 283 BC
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 3
1469 - 1539
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 4
1877 - 1938
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 5
1907 - 1931
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 6
400 BC - 316 BC
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 7
1876 - 1948
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 8
1910 - 1995
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 9
500 BC - Present
HPI: 72.17
Rank: 10
1953 - 2007
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 11
400 - 400
HPI: 71.80
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Pakistan, Muhammad Iqbal ranks 1. After him are Vasubandhu (400), Khushal Khattak (1613), Rahman Baba (1632), Amrita Pritam (1919), Krishna Sobti (1925), Tariq Ali (1943), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Khushwant Singh (1915), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), Mulk Raj Anand (1905), and Parveen Shakir (1952).
1877 - 1938
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 1
400 - 400
HPI: 71.80
Rank: 2
1613 - 1689
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 3
1632 - 1706
HPI: 63.96
Rank: 4
1919 - 2005
HPI: 63.71
Rank: 5
1925 - 2019
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 6
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 7
1911 - 1984
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 8
1915 - 2014
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 9
1941 - Present
HPI: 54.41
Rank: 10
1905 - 2004
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 11
1952 - 1994
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 12