1626 - 1676
Sabbatai Zevi (Hebrew: שַׁבְּתַי צְבִי; August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676), also spelled Shabbetai Ẓevi, Shabbeṯāy Ṣeḇī, Shabsai Tzvi, Sabbatai Zvi, and Sabetay Sevi in Turkish, was a Jewish mystic and ordained rabbi from Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey). A kabbalist of Romaniote or Sephardic origin, Zevi, who was active throughout the Ottoman Empire, claimed to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah. He was the founder of the Sabbatean movement, whose followers subsequently came to be known as Dönme (converts) or crypto-Jews.Upon arriving in Constantinople in February 1666, Sabbatai was imprisoned on the order of the grand vizier Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha; in September of that same year, after being moved from different prisons around the capital to Adrianople, (modern Edirne, the imperial court's then seat) to be judged on accusations of fomenting sedition, Sabbatai was given the choice of either facing death by some type of ordeal, or of converting to Islam by the Grand Vizier representing the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed IV. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sabbatai Zevi has received more than 980,455 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Sabbatai Zevi is the 328th most popular religious figure (down from 256th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 104th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Turkish Religious Figure.
Sabbatai Zevi was most famous for his conversion to Islam in 1666.
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Among religious figures, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 328 out of 2,238. Before him are Pope Stephen IV, Pope Adrian V, Pope Callixtus I, Pope Leo IV, Ubba, and Pope Martin I. After him are Pope Nicholas IV, Pope Damasus II, Ephrem the Syrian, James, son of Alphaeus, Barabbas, and Philip Neri.
770 - 817
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 322
1205 - 1276
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 323
180 - 223
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 324
790 - 855
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 325
1000 - 878
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 326
590 - 655
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 327
1626 - 1676
HPI: 69.81
Rank: 328
1227 - 1292
HPI: 69.80
Rank: 329
1000 - 1048
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 330
306 - 373
HPI: 69.73
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10 BC - 62
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 332
1 - 100
HPI: 69.67
Rank: 333
1515 - 1595
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 334
Among people born in 1626, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 2. Before him is Christina, Queen of Sweden. After him are Jan Steen, Richard Cromwell, Francesco Redi, William II, Prince of Orange, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur, Giovanni Legrenzi, Louis Couperin, Bada Shanren, and Andrea Guarneri. Among people deceased in 1676, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 3. Before him are Pope Clement X and Alexis of Russia. After him are Michiel de Ruyter, Francesco Cavalli, Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha, Madame de Brinvilliers, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, Carl Gustaf Wrangel, and Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg.
1626 - 1689
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 1
1626 - 1676
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Rank: 2
1626 - 1679
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 3
1626 - 1712
HPI: 68.29
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1626 - 1697
HPI: 68.07
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1626 - 1650
HPI: 66.48
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1626 - 1696
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Rank: 7
1626 - 1667
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 8
1626 - 1690
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 9
1626 - 1661
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 10
1626 - 1705
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 11
1626 - 1698
HPI: 51.84
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1590 - 1676
HPI: 73.64
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1629 - 1676
HPI: 71.69
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1626 - 1676
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1607 - 1676
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1602 - 1676
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1635 - 1676
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1630 - 1676
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1622 - 1676
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1653 - 1676
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1636 - 1676
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1613 - 1676
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 11
1617 - 1676
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 12
Among people born in Turkey, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 128 out of 1,301. Before him are Michael III (840), Şah Sultan (1509), Andronikos II Palaiologos (1259), Antinous (111), Basil II (958), and Henri Fayol (1841). After him are Balbinus (178), Ephrem the Syrian (306), Apelles (-370), Mausolus (-410), Chrysippus (-281), and Kayqubad I (1188).
840 - 867
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1509 - 1572
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1259 - 1332
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111 - 130
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958 - 1025
HPI: 69.85
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1841 - 1925
HPI: 69.84
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1626 - 1676
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178 - 238
HPI: 69.78
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306 - 373
HPI: 69.73
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370 BC - 306 BC
HPI: 69.72
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410 BC - 353 BC
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 132
281 BC - 208 BC
HPI: 69.67
Rank: 133
1188 - 1237
HPI: 69.66
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Among religious figures born in Turkey, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 18. Before him are Saint Pantaleon (275), Gregory of Nyssa (335), Ulfilas (311), Photios I of Constantinople (900), Fethullah Gülen (1941), and Marcion of Sinope (85). After him are Ephrem the Syrian (306), Simeon Stylites (389), Pope Vitalian (600), Saint Nino (296), Saint Timothy (17), and Thecla (100).
275 - 303
HPI: 71.16
Rank: 12
335 - 395
HPI: 71.05
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311 - 383
HPI: 71.00
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900 - 896
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 15
1941 - Present
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 16
85 - 160
HPI: 70.06
Rank: 17
1626 - 1676
HPI: 69.81
Rank: 18
306 - 373
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 19
389 - 459
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 20
600 - 672
HPI: 69.31
Rank: 21
296 - 335
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 22
17 - 97
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 23
100 - 100
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 24