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PHILOSOPHER

Ram Dass

1931 - 2019

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Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931 – December 22, 2019), also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and writer. His best-selling 1971 book Be Here Now, which has been described by multiple reviewers as "seminal", helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga in the West. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ram Dass has received more than 4,582,439 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ram Dass is the 963rd most popular philosopher (down from 954th in 2019), the 4,756th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,969th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Philosopher.

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  • 49.84

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ram Dass ranks 963 out of 1,081Before him are Susan George, Heymann Steinthal, Dimitri Kitsikis, Stanisław Staszic, Alexander Men, and Ecphantus the Pythagorean. After him are Jaimini, Josef Pieper, Jerzy Żuławski, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Alice von Hildebrand, and Mary Daly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Ram Dass ranks 251Before him are Ita Ever, Duško Gojković, Nick Bollettieri, Ingvar Wixell, Alex Soler-Roig, and Cemal Süreya. After him are Gene Wolfe, León Febres Cordero, Kenny Burrell, Sakyo Komatsu, Michel Deville, and Mordecai Richler. Among people deceased in 2019, Ram Dass ranks 226Before him are Fahrudin Jusufi, Herman Wouk, Janet Asimov, Reinhard Bonnke, Jan Olszewski, and Claude Goretta. After him are José Nápoles, Gene Wolfe, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Bob Hawke, and Eduardo Fajardo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ram Dass ranks 4,756 out of 18,182Before him are Stephen Collins (1947), Joe Haldeman (1943), Octavia E. Butler (1947), Strom Thurmond (1902), Broderick Crawford (1911), and Martin Donovan (1957). After him are Kevin Schwantz (1964), Fred Gwynne (1926), Gene Wolfe (1931), Megan Thee Stallion (1995), Steve Kanaly (1946), and Claudette Colvin (1939).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Ram Dass ranks 44Before him are Robert Anton Wilson (1932), Lon L. Fuller (1902), Lysander Spooner (1808), Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945), Wilfrid Sellars (1912), and Susan George (1934). After him are Mary Daly (1928), Harry Frankfurt (1929), Amos Bronson Alcott (1799), Stanley Cavell (1926), Barrington Moore Jr. (1913), and Allan Bloom (1930).

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