1817 - 1898
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan KCSI (17 October 1817 – 27 March 1898; also Sayyid Ahmad Khan) was an Indian Muslim reformer, philosopher, and educationist in nineteenth-century British India. Though initially espousing Hindu–Muslim unity, he became the pioneer of Muslim nationalism in India and is widely credited as the father of the two-nation theory, which formed the basis of the Pakistan movement. Born into a family with strong debts to the Mughal court, Ahmad studied the Quran and Science within the court. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Syed Ahmad Khan has received more than 3,171,236 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Syed Ahmad Khan is the 93rd most popular social activist (down from 88th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from India (down from 86th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Indian Social Activist.
Syed Ahmad Khan was a Muslim reformer who founded the Aligarh Muslim University. He was a proponent of Western education, and his work led to the founding of the Muslim University of Aligarh.
Page Views (PV)
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Languages Editions (L)
Effective Languages (L*)
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among social activists, Syed Ahmad Khan ranks 93 out of 538. Before him are Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Fra Dolcino, Augusto César Sandino, Antipope Clement III, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, and René Cassin. After him are Pier Gerlofs Donia, Jenny von Westphalen, Louise Michel, Emilia Plater, An Jung-geun, and Susan B. Anthony.
1927 - 1988
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 87
1250 - 1307
HPI: 63.06
Rank: 88
1895 - 1934
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 89
1025 - 1100
HPI: 62.88
Rank: 90
1833 - 1918
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 91
1887 - 1976
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 92
1817 - 1898
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 93
1480 - 1520
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 94
1814 - 1881
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 95
1830 - 1905
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 96
1806 - 1831
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 97
1879 - 1910
HPI: 62.44
Rank: 98
1820 - 1906
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 99
Among people born in 1817, Syed Ahmad Khan ranks 10. Before him are Ivan Aivazovsky, Bahá'u'lláh, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Charles-François Daubigny, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen. After him are Princess Clémentine of Orléans, Niels Gade, Pierre Larousse, Theodor Storm, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, and Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg. Among people deceased in 1898, Syed Ahmad Khan ranks 18. Before him are John Newlands, Charles Garnier, Aubrey Beardsley, Félicien Rops, Heungseon Daewongun, and Henry Bessemer. After him are William Ewart Gladstone, Eleanor Marx, Theodor Fontane, Edward Burne-Jones, Ferdinand Cohn, and Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies.
1817 - 1900
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 4
1817 - 1892
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 5
1817 - 1898
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 6
1817 - 1878
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 7
1817 - 1905
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 8
1817 - 1895
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 9
1817 - 1898
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 10
1817 - 1907
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 11
1817 - 1890
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 12
1817 - 1875
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 13
1817 - 1888
HPI: 59.76
Rank: 14
1817 - 1875
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 15
1817 - 1852
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 16
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 12
1825 - 1898
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 13
1872 - 1898
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 14
1833 - 1898
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 15
1820 - 1898
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 16
1813 - 1898
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 17
1817 - 1898
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 18
1809 - 1898
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 19
1855 - 1898
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 20
1819 - 1898
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 21
1833 - 1898
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 22
1828 - 1898
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 23
1814 - 1898
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 24
Among people born in India, Syed Ahmad Khan ranks 104 out of 1,493. Before him are Razia Sultana (1205), Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), Lawrence Durrell (1912), Maudgalyayana (-568), Bindusara (-320), and Radha (null). After him are Pete Best (1941), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924), Basava (1134), Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838), Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), and Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866).
1205 - 1240
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 98
1835 - 1908
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 99
1912 - 1990
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 100
568 BC - 484 BC
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 101
320 BC - 273 BC
HPI: 62.75
Rank: 102
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 103
1817 - 1898
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 104
1941 - Present
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 105
1924 - 2018
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 106
1134 - 1196
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 107
1838 - 1894
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 108
1936 - Present
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 109
1866 - 1915
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 110
Among social activists born in India, Syed Ahmad Khan ranks 6. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi (1869), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904), Kasturba Gandhi (1869), and Gerald Durrell (1925). After him are Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Vinoba Bhave (1895), Mangal Pandey (1827), Kittur Chennamma (1778), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), and Vandana Shiva (1952).
1869 - 1948
HPI: 88.49
Rank: 1
1856 - 1920
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 2
1904 - 1966
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 3
1869 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 4
1925 - 1995
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 5
1817 - 1898
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 6
1866 - 1915
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 7
1895 - 1982
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 8
1827 - 1857
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 9
1778 - 1829
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 10
1954 - Present
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 11
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 12