1895 - 1982
Vinayak Narahari Bhave, also known as Vinoba Bhave (pronunciation; 11 September 1895 – 15 November 1982), was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya (Teacher in Sanskrit), he is best known for the Bhoodan Movement. He is considered as National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vinoba Bhave has received more than 1,381,583 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Vinoba Bhave is the 112th most popular social activist (up from 173rd in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from India (up from 149th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Indian Social Activist.
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Among social activists, Vinoba Bhave ranks 112 out of 538. Before him are Paul Schäfer, Frank Costello, Mordechai Anielewicz, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Jody Williams, and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. After him are Georgy Gapon, Hans Scholl, Hilda Gadea, Rashid ad-Din Sinan, Vesna Vulović, and Denis Mukwege.
1921 - 2010
HPI: 61.90
Rank: 106
1891 - 1973
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 107
1919 - 1943
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 108
1866 - 1915
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 109
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 110
1923 - 1941
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 111
1895 - 1982
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 112
1870 - 1906
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 113
1918 - 1943
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 114
1925 - 1974
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 115
1130 - 1192
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 116
1950 - 2016
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 117
1955 - Present
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 118
Among people born in 1895, Vinoba Bhave ranks 64. Before him are Wilhelm Kempff, Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Lázaro Cárdenas, Edna Purviance, Richard Barthelmess, and Friedrich Jeckeln. After him are Kurt Zeitzler, André Frédéric Cournand, Lewis Milestone, Robert Graves, Marcel Pagnol, and Wilhelm Gustloff. Among people deceased in 1982, Vinoba Bhave ranks 50. Before him are William Giauque, Varlam Shalamov, Gershom Scholem, Walter Hallstein, Anna German, and Hermann Balck. After him are Bachir Gemayel, Philip Noel-Baker, Meša Selimović, Vladimir K. Zworykin, Takashi Shimura, and Sobhuza II.
1895 - 1991
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 58
1895 - 1945
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 59
1895 - 1970
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 60
1895 - 1958
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 61
1895 - 1963
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 62
1895 - 1946
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 63
1895 - 1982
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 64
1895 - 1963
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 65
1895 - 1988
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 66
1895 - 1980
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 67
1895 - 1985
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 68
1895 - 1974
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 69
1895 - 1936
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 70
1895 - 1982
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 44
1907 - 1982
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 45
1897 - 1982
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 46
1901 - 1982
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 47
1936 - 1982
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 48
1893 - 1982
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 49
1895 - 1982
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 50
1947 - 1982
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 51
1889 - 1982
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 52
1910 - 1982
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 53
1888 - 1982
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 54
1905 - 1982
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 55
1899 - 1982
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 56
Among people born in India, Vinoba Bhave ranks 114 out of 1,493. Before him are Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838), Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Ahmed Deedat (1918), Dadabhai Naoroji (1825), and Pervez Musharraf (1943). After him are Julia Margaret Cameron (1815), Namdev (1270), Jyotirao Phule (1827), James Brooke (1803), Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), and Sushruta (-620).
1838 - 1894
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 108
1936 - Present
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 109
1866 - 1915
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 110
1918 - 2005
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 111
1825 - 1917
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 112
1943 - 2023
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 113
1895 - 1982
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 114
1815 - 1879
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 115
1270 - 1350
HPI: 60.91
Rank: 116
1827 - 1890
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 117
1803 - 1868
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 118
601 - 700
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 119
620 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 120
Among social activists born in India, Vinoba Bhave ranks 8. Before him are Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904), Kasturba Gandhi (1869), Gerald Durrell (1925), Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), and Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866). After him are Mangal Pandey (1827), Kittur Chennamma (1778), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Vandana Shiva (1952), C. Rajagopalachari (1878), and Jayaprakash Narayan (1902).
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
1878 - 1972
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 13
1902 - 1979
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 14