300 - 500
Vātsyāyana was an ancient Indian philosopher, known for authoring the Kama Sutra. He lived in India during the second or third century CE, probably in Pataliputra (modern day Patna in Bihar). He is not to be confused with Pakṣilasvāmin Vātsyāyana, the author of Nyāya Sutra Bhāshya, the first preserved commentary on Gotama's Nyāya Sutras. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vātsyāyana has received more than 1,163,007 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Vātsyāyana is the 685th most popular writer (down from 638th in 2019), the 84th most popular biography from India (down from 59th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Indian Writer.
Vātsyāyana is most famous for his Kama Sutra, which is a collection of Sanskrit texts on human sexual behavior.
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Among writers, Vātsyāyana ranks 685 out of 5,755. Before him are Periander, Alain-René Lesage, Clarice Lispector, Luis de Góngora, Judah Halevi, and Pietro Bembo. After him are Alexander Pope, Max Frisch, Ninon de l'Enclos, Jaroslav Seifert, Hugo Ball, and Pierre de Ronsard.
700 BC - 583 BC
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 679
1668 - 1747
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 680
1920 - 1977
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 681
1561 - 1627
HPI: 63.97
Rank: 682
1079 - 1141
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 683
1470 - 1547
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 684
300 - 500
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 685
1688 - 1744
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 686
1911 - 1991
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 687
1620 - 1705
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 688
1901 - 1986
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 689
1886 - 1927
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 690
1524 - 1585
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 691
Among people born in 300, Vātsyāyana ranks 12. Before him are Pope Julius I, Pope Eutychian, Theodore of Amasea, Valerius Severus, Vincent of Saragossa, and Macarius of Egypt. After him are Asanga, Erasmus of Formia, Narseh, Expeditus, Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia, and Hormizd II. Among people deceased in 500, Vātsyāyana ranks 1. After him are Chandragupta II, Nonnus, Zu Chongzhi, Buddhaghosa, Charaton, Hesychius of Alexandria, Rutilius Claudius Namatianus, Anthemius, Asclepigenia, Faustus of Byzantium, and Aedesia.
300 - 352
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 6
300 - 283
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 7
300 - 306
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 8
300 - 307
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 9
300 - 304
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 10
300 - 391
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 11
300 - 500
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 12
300 - 301
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 13
300 - 303
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 14
300 - 302
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 15
300 - 303
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 16
300 - 306
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 17
300 - 309
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 18
300 - 500
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 1
400 - 500
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 2
500 - 500
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 3
429 - 500
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 4
401 - 500
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 5
400 - 500
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 6
500 - 500
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 7
420 - 500
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 8
400 - 500
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 9
400 - 500
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 10
390 - 500
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 11
500 - 500
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 12
Among people born in India, Vātsyāyana ranks 84 out of 1,493. Before him are Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Lata Mangeshkar (1929), Ajatashatru (-500), Ramana Maharshi (1879), Sri Aurobindo (1872), and Sher Shah Suri (1486). After him are Cliff Richard (1940), Tukaram (1608), Sarojini Naidu (1879), Nathuram Godse (1910), Gerald Durrell (1925), and Mahākāśyapa (-550).
1775 - 1862
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 78
1929 - 2022
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 79
500 BC - 460 BC
HPI: 64.45
Rank: 80
1879 - 1950
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 81
1872 - 1950
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 82
1486 - 1545
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 83
300 - 500
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 84
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 85
1608 - 1650
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 86
1879 - 1949
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 87
1910 - 1949
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 88
1925 - 1995
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 89
550 BC - 549 BC
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 90
Among writers born in India, Vātsyāyana ranks 13. Before him are Meera (1498), Salman Rushdie (1947), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), Savitribai Phule (1831), Premchand (1880), and Ghalib (1797). After him are Tukaram (1608), Sarojini Naidu (1879), Lawrence Durrell (1912), Basava (1134), Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838), and Ahmed Deedat (1918).
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
300 - 500
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 13
1608 - 1650
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 14
1879 - 1949
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 15
1912 - 1990
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 16
1134 - 1196
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 17
1838 - 1894
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 18
1918 - 2005
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 19