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Sri Aurobindo

1872 - 1950

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Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as Bande Mataram. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sri Aurobindo has received more than 3,814,638 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia. Sri Aurobindo is the 290th most popular philosopher (down from 274th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from India (down from 57th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Indian Philosopher.

Sri Aurobindo was a philosopher, poet, and yogi who was most famous for his philosophy of Integral Yoga.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Sri Aurobindo ranks 290 out of 1,081Before him are Nicolai Hartmann, Félix Guattari, Roscellinus, Ramana Maharshi, Synesius, and Robert Nozick. After him are Hipparchia of Maroneia, Jerome of Prague, Rudolf Otto, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Aristoxenus, and John Searle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Sri Aurobindo ranks 21Before him are Sergei Diaghilev, Richard Willstätter, Louis Blériot, Charles Greeley Abbot, Maurice Gamelin, and Helena Rubinstein. After him are Aubrey Beardsley, Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, Habibullah Khan, Jože Plečnik, Gotse Delchev, and Wilhelm Miklas. Among people deceased in 1950, Sri Aurobindo ranks 21Before him are Edgar Rice Burroughs, Heinrich Mann, Kurt Weill, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Nicolai Hartmann, and Ramana Maharshi. After him are Norman Haworth, Emil Jannings, George Minot, Cesare Pavese, Max Beckmann, and John Rabe.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sri Aurobindo ranks 82 out of 1,493Before him are Mahavatar Babaji (1900), Mumtaz Mahal (1593), Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Lata Mangeshkar (1929), Ajatashatru (-500), and Ramana Maharshi (1879). After him are Sher Shah Suri (1486), Vātsyāyana (300), Cliff Richard (1940), Tukaram (1608), Sarojini Naidu (1879), and Nathuram Godse (1910).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Sri Aurobindo ranks 15Before him are Padmasambhava (717), Vyasa (-390), Aśvaghoṣa (80), Ram Mohan Roy (1772), Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), and Ramana Maharshi (1879). After him are Ramanuja (1017), Jyotirao Phule (1827), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Buddhaghosa (401), Ravidas (1450), and Madhvacharya (1199).