RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Ravi Zacharias

1946 - 2020

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Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias (26 March 1946 – 19 May 2020) was an Indian-born Canadian-American Christian evangelical minister and Christian apologist who founded Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM). He was involved in Christian apologetics for a period spanning more than forty years, authoring more than thirty books. He also hosted the radio programs Let My People Think and Just Thinking. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ravi Zacharias has received more than 4,343,124 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Ravi Zacharias is the 3,004th most popular religious figure (down from 2,589th in 2019), the 898th most popular biography from India (down from 688th in 2019) and the 57th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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  • 4.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Ravi Zacharias ranks 3,004 out of 3,187. Before him are Epiphanius I of Ukraine, Walter Rauschenbusch, Eva Brunne, Soane Patita Paini Mafi, Baselios Cleemis, and John McCloskey. After him are Yasser Al-Habib, Ezra Taft Benson, T. B. Joshua, J. I. Packer, Nathalie Becquart, and John Cody.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Ravi Zacharias ranks 735. Before him are Wiesław Rudkowski, Claudette Werleigh, Dennis Kucinich, Jeffrey Hammond, Sonny Perdue, and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. After him are Atiku Abubakar, Penelope Spheeris, Tony Ashton, Tony Hurt, Michael Rosen, and Samuel E. Wright. Among people deceased in 2020, Ravi Zacharias ranks 706. Before him are Mridula Sinha, James Dunn, Ann Reinking, Aytaç Yalman, Bob Kulick, and Gerardo Vera. After him are Ali Mirzaei, Alan Minter, Aurlus Mabélé, Kalevi Oikarainen, Mike Moore, and Balbir Singh Sr..

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In India

Among people born in India, Ravi Zacharias ranks 898 out of 1,861. Before him are Aparna Sen (1945), Mridula Sinha (1942), Baselios Cleemis (1959), Parmanand Jha (1944), Gulshan Kumar (1956), and Surekha Sikri (1945). After him are Narain Karthikeyan (1977), Tapan Sinha (1924), Teejan Bai (1956), Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944), Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II (1734), and Aasif Mandvi (1966).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Ravi Zacharias ranks 57. Before him are Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928), Chandramukhi Basu (1860), Wahiduddin Khan (1925), Rukhmabai (1864), Simon Pimenta (1920), and Baselios Cleemis (1959). After him are Varkey Vithayathil (1927), Filipe Neri Ferrão (1953), Joseph Parecattil (1912), Begum Samru (1746), Antony Padiyara (1921), and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1990).

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