1772 - 1833
Raja Ram Mohan Roy (22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833) was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent. He was given the title of Raja by Akbar II, the Mughal emperor. His influence was apparent in the fields of politics, public administration, education and religion. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ram Mohan Roy has received more than 3,898,478 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Ram Mohan Roy is the 301st most popular philosopher (down from 278th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from India (down from 60th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Indian Philosopher.
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Among philosophers, Ram Mohan Roy ranks 301 out of 1,089. Before him are Uriel da Costa, Aenesidemus, Alcmaeon of Croton, Giovanni Gentile, Jerome of Prague, and J. L. Austin. After him are E. H. Carr, Alfred Schütz, Roscellinus, Paramahansa Yogananda, Nicolai Hartmann, and Hilary Putnam.
1585 - 1640
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 295
80 BC - 10 BC
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 296
510 BC - 450 BC
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 297
1875 - 1944
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 298
1379 - 1416
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 299
1911 - 1960
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 300
1772 - 1833
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 301
1892 - 1982
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 302
1899 - 1959
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 303
1050 - 1121
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 304
1893 - 1952
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 305
1882 - 1950
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 306
1926 - 2016
HPI: 72.20
Rank: 307
Among people born in 1772, Ram Mohan Roy ranks 8. Before him are Novalis, Charles Fourier, William I of the Netherlands, Friedrich Schlegel, Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. After him are Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Nachman of Breslov, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, and Henri de la Rochejaquelein. Among people deceased in 1833, Ram Mohan Roy ranks 8. Before him are Kaspar Hauser, Ferdinand VII of Spain, Richard Trevithick, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Marie-Antoine Carême, and Seraphim of Sarov. After him are Hugh Glass, William Wilberforce, Pierre André Latreille, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, and Abbas Mirza.
1772 - 1801
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 2
1772 - 1837
HPI: 79.09
Rank: 3
1772 - 1843
HPI: 77.52
Rank: 4
1772 - 1829
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 5
1772 - 1807
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 6
1772 - 1834
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 7
1772 - 1833
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 8
1772 - 1844
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 9
1772 - 1810
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 10
1772 - 1834
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 11
1772 - 1804
HPI: 70.55
Rank: 12
1772 - 1840
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 13
1772 - 1794
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 14
1812 - 1833
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 2
1784 - 1833
HPI: 76.70
Rank: 3
1771 - 1833
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 4
1752 - 1833
HPI: 74.53
Rank: 5
1784 - 1833
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 6
1754 - 1833
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 7
1772 - 1833
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 8
1783 - 1833
HPI: 71.53
Rank: 9
1759 - 1833
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 10
1762 - 1833
HPI: 70.85
Rank: 11
1762 - 1833
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 12
1775 - 1833
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 13
1789 - 1833
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 14
Among people born in India, Ram Mohan Roy ranks 70 out of 1,227. Before him are Ram Nath Kovind (1945), Abdul Karim (1863), Aśvaghoṣa (80), Harsha (590), Pete Best (1941), and Nathuram Godse (1910). After him are Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), Śuddhodana (-590), Ronald Ross (1857), Sher Shah Suri (1486), Rajiv Gandhi (1944), and Satyendra Nath Bose (1894).
1945 - Present
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 64
1863 - 1909
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 65
80 - 150
HPI: 72.49
Rank: 66
590 - 647
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 67
1941 - Present
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 68
1910 - 1949
HPI: 72.35
Rank: 69
1772 - 1833
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 70
1893 - 1952
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 71
590 BC - Present
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 72
1857 - 1932
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 73
1486 - 1545
HPI: 71.97
Rank: 74
1944 - 1991
HPI: 71.89
Rank: 75
1894 - 1974
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 76
Among philosophers born in India, Ram Mohan Roy ranks 11. Before him are Bodhidharma (483), Kabir (1440), Swami Vivekananda (1863), Sri Aurobindo (1872), Ramana Maharshi (1879), and Aśvaghoṣa (80). After him are Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), Vyasa (-390), Ramanuja (1017), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Abul A'la Maududi (1903), and Shantideva (685).
483 - 540
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 5
1440 - 1518
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 6
1863 - 1902
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 7
1872 - 1950
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 8
1879 - 1950
HPI: 72.72
Rank: 9
80 - 150
HPI: 72.49
Rank: 10
1772 - 1833
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 11
1893 - 1952
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 12
390 BC - 310 BC
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 13
1017 - 1137
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 14
1883 - 1966
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 15
1903 - 1979
HPI: 68.64
Rank: 16
685 - 763
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 17