1836 - 1886
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Bengali: শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস, romanized: Ramokṛṣṇo Pôromhongśo ; 18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886), born Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya, (Bengali: গদাধর চট্টোপাধ্যায় ) was an Indian Hindu mystic, saint, and religious leader in 19th century Bengal. Sri Ramakrishna experienced spiritual ecstasies from a young age, and was influenced by several religious traditions, including devotion toward the Goddess Kali, Tantra, Bhakti and Advaita Vedanta.As a priest at the Dakshineshwar Kali Temple, his mystical temperament and ecstasies gradually gained him widespread acknowledgement, attracting to him various spiritual teachers, social leaders, and lay followers; he eventually taught disciples, who would later form the monastic Ramakrishna Order. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ramakrishna has received more than 2,528,974 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Ramakrishna is the 67th most popular philosopher (up from 197th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from India (up from 33rd in 2019) and the most popular Indian Philosopher.
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Among philosophers, Ramakrishna ranks 67 out of 1,089. Before him are George Berkeley, Ludwig Feuerbach, Rudolf Steiner, Arius, Edmund Husserl, and Herbert Spencer. After him are Karl Jaspers, Antonio Gramsci, William of Ockham, Jürgen Habermas, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and Jeremy Bentham.
1685 - 1753
HPI: 82.67
Rank: 61
1804 - 1872
HPI: 82.63
Rank: 62
1861 - 1925
HPI: 82.57
Rank: 63
256 - 336
HPI: 82.49
Rank: 64
1859 - 1938
HPI: 82.49
Rank: 65
1820 - 1903
HPI: 82.40
Rank: 66
1836 - 1886
HPI: 82.17
Rank: 67
1883 - 1969
HPI: 82.13
Rank: 68
1891 - 1937
HPI: 82.11
Rank: 69
1285 - 1347
HPI: 82.08
Rank: 70
1929 - Present
HPI: 81.94
Rank: 71
1775 - 1854
HPI: 81.86
Rank: 72
1748 - 1832
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 73
Among people born in 1836, Ramakrishna ranks 1. After him are Wilhelm Steinitz, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Léo Delibes, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sophia of Nassau, Marie Henriette of Austria, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, James Tissot, Henri Fantin-Latour, Sakamoto Ryōma, and Ferdinand Cheval. Among people deceased in 1886, Ramakrishna ranks 2. Before him is Franz Liszt. After him are Ludwig II of Bavaria, Emily Dickinson, Leopold von Ranke, Chester A. Arthur, Amilcare Ponchielli, John Deere, Alexander Ostrovsky, Ilya Ulyanov, Alexander Butlerov, and Lydia Koidula.
1836 - 1886
HPI: 82.17
Rank: 1
1836 - 1900
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 2
1836 - 1895
HPI: 77.32
Rank: 3
1836 - 1891
HPI: 77.03
Rank: 4
1836 - 1912
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 5
1836 - 1913
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 6
1836 - 1902
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 7
1836 - 1894
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 8
1836 - 1902
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 9
1836 - 1904
HPI: 72.04
Rank: 10
1836 - 1867
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 11
1836 - 1924
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 12
1811 - 1886
HPI: 87.16
Rank: 1
1836 - 1886
HPI: 82.17
Rank: 2
1845 - 1886
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 3
1830 - 1886
HPI: 78.29
Rank: 4
1795 - 1886
HPI: 77.18
Rank: 5
1829 - 1886
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 6
1834 - 1886
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 7
1804 - 1886
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 8
1823 - 1886
HPI: 70.13
Rank: 9
1831 - 1886
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 10
1828 - 1886
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 11
1843 - 1886
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 12
Among people born in India, Ramakrishna ranks 9 out of 1,227. Before him are Ashoka (-304), Rajneesh (1931), Amitabh Bachchan (1942), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), and Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887). After him are Rudyard Kipling (1865), Vivien Leigh (1913), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), Kālidāsa (400), Indira Gandhi (1917), and Ānanda (-600).
304 BC - 232 BC
HPI: 85.91
Rank: 3
1931 - 1990
HPI: 85.85
Rank: 4
1942 - Present
HPI: 84.82
Rank: 5
1861 - 1941
HPI: 84.23
Rank: 6
1931 - 2015
HPI: 82.61
Rank: 7
1887 - 1920
HPI: 82.47
Rank: 8
1836 - 1886
HPI: 82.17
Rank: 9
1865 - 1936
HPI: 81.42
Rank: 10
1913 - 1967
HPI: 81.42
Rank: 11
1889 - 1964
HPI: 81.35
Rank: 12
400 - 420
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 13
1917 - 1984
HPI: 80.94
Rank: 14
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 80.22
Rank: 15
Among philosophers born in India, Ramakrishna ranks 1. After him are Nagarjuna (150), Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895), Adi Shankara (788), Bodhidharma (483), Kabir (1440), Swami Vivekananda (1863), Sri Aurobindo (1872), Ramana Maharshi (1879), Aśvaghoṣa (80), Ram Mohan Roy (1772), and Paramahansa Yogananda (1893).
1836 - 1886
HPI: 82.17
Rank: 1
150 - 250
HPI: 79.61
Rank: 2
1895 - 1986
HPI: 78.43
Rank: 3
788 - 820
HPI: 77.32
Rank: 4
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