RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Sai Baba of Shirdi

1835 - 1918

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Sai Baba of Shirdi (c. 1838–15 October 1918), also known as Shirdi Sai Baba, was an Indian spiritual master considered to be a saint, and revered by both Hindu and Muslim devotees during and after his lifetime. According to accounts from his life, Sai Baba preached the importance of "realisation of the self" and criticised "love towards perishable things". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sai Baba of Shirdi has received more than 12,560,760 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Sai Baba of Shirdi is the 869th most popular religious figure (up from 1,039th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from India (up from 162nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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  • 61.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Sai Baba of Shirdi ranks 869 out of 3,187. Before him are Julia Pastrana, Al-Bayhaqi, Peter of Verona, Mata Amritanandamayi, Lawrence of Brindisi, and Mikao Usui. After him are Tarasios of Constantinople, Hélder Câmara, Dayananda Saraswati, Columba, Philipp Spener, and Hans Egede.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Sai Baba of Shirdi ranks 22. Before him are Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Josef Stefan, Eduard Strauss, Demetrius Vikelas, Nikolai Rubinstein, and Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern. After him are Iwasaki Yatarō, Adolph Wagner, Hijikata Toshizō, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Shoqan Walikhanov, and Elisha Gray. Among people deceased in 1918, Sai Baba of Shirdi ranks 47. Before him are Anna Dostoevskaya, Emil Jellinek, Stepan Shaumian, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Julius Wellhausen, and Koloman Moser. After him are Ivan Cankar, John Bauer, César Ritz, Daniel Burley Woolfall, Vasily Radlov, and Charles-Émile Reynaud.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sai Baba of Shirdi ranks 128 out of 1,861. Before him are Siraj ud-Daulah (1733), Buddhaghosa (401), Ravi Shankar (1956), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899), Dadabhai Naoroji (1825), and Mata Amritanandamayi (1953). After him are Lakshmi Mittal (1950), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), Abul A'la Maududi (1903), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), and Gangubai Kothewali (1939).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Sai Baba of Shirdi ranks 13. Before him are Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), Maudgalyayana (-568), Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), Mahavatar Babaji (1900), Ravi Shankar (1956), and Mata Amritanandamayi (1953). After him are Dayananda Saraswati (1824), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856), Guru Arjan (1563), Jayadeva (1170), and Anthony de Mello (1931).

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