1532 - 1623
Tulsidas (Hindi pronunciation: [t̪ʊls̪iːd̪aːs̪]; 1497?–1623), also known as Goswami Tulsidas, was a Ramanandi Vaishnava saint and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama. He wrote several popular works in Sanskrit and Awadhi, but is best known as the author of the epic Ramcharitmanas, a retelling of the Sanskrit Ramayana based on Rama's life in the vernacular Awadhi. Tulsidas spent most of his life in the city of Varanasi and Faizabad. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tulsidas has received more than 2,053,023 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Tulsidas is the 459th most popular writer (down from 441st in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from India (up from 42nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Indian Writer.
Tulsidas is most famous for writing the Ramcharitmanas, which is a long poem about the life of the Hindu god Rama.
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Among writers, Tulsidas ranks 459 out of 5,794. Before him are Lysias, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Louisa May Alcott, Herta Müller, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Harold Pinter. After him are Wu Cheng'en, Thomas Paine, Statius, J. M. G. Le Clézio, T. S. Eliot, and Valmiki.
445 BC - 380 BC
HPI: 74.82
Rank: 453
1883 - 1945
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 454
1832 - 1888
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 455
1953 - Present
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 456
1848 - 1907
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 457
1930 - 2008
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 458
1532 - 1623
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 459
1500 - 1582
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 460
1737 - 1809
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 461
40 - 96
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 462
1940 - Present
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 463
1888 - 1965
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 464
80 BC - 2 BC
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 465
Among people born in 1532, Tulsidas ranks 1. After him are Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, Yermak Timofeyevich, John Hawkins, Francis Walsingham, Maerten de Vos, Menocchio, Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Luís Fróis, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, and Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. Among people deceased in 1623, Tulsidas ranks 3. Before him are Pope Gregory XV and Anne Hathaway. After him are William Byrd, Josaphat Kuntsevych, Halime Sultan, Domenico Fetti, Mariam-uz-Zamani, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, Philippe de Mornay, and Antonio Priuli.
1532 - 1623
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 1
1532 - 1588
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 2
1532 - 1585
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 3
1532 - 1595
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 4
1532 - 1590
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 5
1532 - 1603
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 6
1532 - 1599
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 7
1532 - 1585
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 8
1532 - 1592
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 9
1532 - 1597
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 10
1532 - 1589
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 11
1532 - 1592
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 12
1554 - 1623
HPI: 80.57
Rank: 1
1556 - 1623
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 2
1532 - 1623
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 3
1543 - 1623
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 4
1580 - 1623
HPI: 69.77
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1576 - 1623
HPI: 68.44
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1589 - 1623
HPI: 66.08
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1542 - 1623
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 8
1556 - 1623
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 9
1555 - 1623
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 10
1549 - 1623
HPI: 63.46
Rank: 11
1548 - 1623
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 12
Among people born in India, Tulsidas ranks 41 out of 1,227. Before him are Jahangir (1569), Amartya Sen (1933), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), Aryabhata (476), Swami Vivekananda (1863), and Bhāskara II (1114). After him are Valmiki (-80), Julie Christie (1940), Sariputta (-568), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), Sita (null), and Ghalib (1797).
1569 - 1627
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 35
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 36
1811 - 1863
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 37
476 - 550
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 38
1863 - 1902
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 39
1114 - 1185
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 40
1532 - 1623
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 41
80 BC - 2 BC
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 42
1940 - Present
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 43
568 BC - 484 BC
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 44
1875 - 1950
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 45
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 46
1797 - 1869
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 47
Among writers born in India, Tulsidas ranks 6. Before him are George Orwell (1903), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Kālidāsa (400), and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811). After him are Valmiki (-80), Ghalib (1797), Salman Rushdie (1947), Premchand (1880), Vātsyāyana (300), and Meera (1498).
1903 - 1950
HPI: 86.36
Rank: 1
1861 - 1941
HPI: 84.23
Rank: 2
1865 - 1936
HPI: 81.42
Rank: 3
400 - 420
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 4
1811 - 1863
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 5
1532 - 1623
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 6
80 BC - 2 BC
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 7
1797 - 1869
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 8
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 9
1880 - 1936
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 10
300 - Present
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 11
1498 - 1546
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 12