1532 - 1623
Tulsidas (Hindi pronunciation: [tʊlsiːdaːs]; born "Rambola" also known as Goswami Tulsidas; 11 August 1511–30 July 1623) was a Smarta-Vaishnava Hindu saint and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama. He wrote several popular works in Sanskrit and Awadhi, Braj, but is best known as the author of the Hanuman Chalisa and 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 Ayodhya. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tulsidas has received more than 3,194,292 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia. Tulsidas is the 382nd most popular writer (up from 459th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from India 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 382 out of 5,755. Before him are Marguerite Yourcenar, Auguste Escoffier, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Ludovico Ariosto, Erich von Däniken, and Sándor Márai. After him are Dan Brown, Jo Nesbø, W. Somerset Maugham, Herta Müller, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and André Maurois.
1903 - 1987
HPI: 68.40
Rank: 376
1847 - 1935
HPI: 68.40
Rank: 377
1863 - 1938
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 378
1474 - 1533
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 379
1935 - Present
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 380
1900 - 1989
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 381
1532 - 1623
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 382
1964 - Present
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 383
1960 - Present
HPI: 68.22
Rank: 384
1874 - 1965
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 385
1953 - Present
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 386
1921 - 1990
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 387
1885 - 1967
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 388
Among people born in 1532, Tulsidas ranks 1. After him are Yermak Timofeyevich, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, John Hawkins, Francis Walsingham, Maerten de Vos, Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony, Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Luís Fróis, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, and Marino Grimani. Among people deceased in 1623, Tulsidas ranks 3. Before him are Pope Gregory XV and Halime Sultan. After him are Anne Hathaway, Josaphat Kuntsevych, William Byrd, Mariam-uz-Zamani, Domenico Fetti, Kara Davud Pasha, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, and John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen.
1532 - 1623
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 1
1532 - 1585
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 2
1532 - 1588
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 3
1532 - 1595
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 4
1532 - 1590
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 5
1532 - 1603
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 6
1532 - 1585
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 7
1532 - 1590
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 8
1532 - 1592
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 9
1532 - 1597
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 10
1532 - 1592
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 11
1532 - 1605
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 12
1554 - 1623
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 1
1576 - 1623
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 2
1532 - 1623
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 3
1556 - 1623
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 4
1580 - 1623
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 5
1543 - 1623
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 6
1542 - 1623
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 7
1589 - 1623
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 8
1570 - 1623
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 9
1556 - 1623
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 10
1555 - 1623
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 11
1561 - 1623
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 12
Among people born in India, Tulsidas ranks 41 out of 1,493. Before him are Amartya Sen (1933), Mahavira (-599), Julie Christie (1940), Rani of Jhansi (1828), Jahangir (1569), and Brahmagupta (598). After him are Sariputta (-568), Aishwarya Rai (1973), C. V. Raman (1888), Bhāskara II (1114), Meera (1498), and Amir Khusrow (1253).
1933 - Present
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 35
599 BC - 527 BC
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 36
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.06
Rank: 37
1828 - 1858
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 38
1569 - 1627
HPI: 68.69
Rank: 39
598 - 670
HPI: 68.55
Rank: 40
1532 - 1623
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 41
568 BC - 484 BC
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 42
1973 - Present
HPI: 68.07
Rank: 43
1888 - 1970
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 44
1114 - 1185
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 45
1498 - 1546
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 46
1253 - 1325
HPI: 67.67
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 Valmiki (-80). After him are Meera (1498), Salman Rushdie (1947), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), Savitribai Phule (1831), Premchand (1880), and Ghalib (1797).
1903 - 1950
HPI: 81.47
Rank: 1
1861 - 1941
HPI: 79.04
Rank: 2
1865 - 1936
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 3
400 - 420
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 4
80 BC - 2 BC
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 5
1532 - 1623
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 6
1498 - 1546
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 7
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 8
1811 - 1863
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 9
1831 - 1897
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 10
1880 - 1936
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 11
1797 - 1869
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 12