1838 - 1933
Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen Kagan (January 26, 1838 – September 15, 1933) was an influential Lithuanian Jewish rabbi, Halakhist, posek, and ethicist whose works continue to be widely influential in Orthodox Jewish life. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yisrael Meir Kagan has received more than 159,419 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Yisrael Meir Kagan is the 1,907th most popular religious figure, the 99th most popular biography from Belarus and the 3rd most popular Belarusian Religious Figure.
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Among religious figures, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 1,907 out of 2,238. Before him are Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, Kurt Koch, Karl Leisner, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, and Victor and Corona. After him are Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Benedict Biscop, Paul I of Constantinople, Georg Gänswein, Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, and Hans Hermann Groër.
1914 - 2000
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 1,901
1581 - 1643
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 1,902
1950 - Present
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 1,903
1915 - 1945
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 1,904
1939 - 2021
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 1,905
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 1,906
1838 - 1933
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 1,907
1936 - 2019
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 1,908
628 - 690
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 1,909
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 1,910
1956 - Present
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 1,911
1933 - Present
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 1,912
1919 - 2003
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 1,913
Among people born in 1838, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 62. Before him are August Šenoa, Victoria Woodhull, Marianne Cope, Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, Karl Davydov, and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, Emil Rathenau, Paul Mauser, Thomas Blake Glover, Valeriano Weyler, and John Hay. Among people deceased in 1933, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 61. Before him are Albert Apponyi, Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt, Toktogul Satylganov, Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, Robert T. A. Innes, and Arnold Mendelssohn. After him are Boris Rosing, Chen Jiongming, Zacharia Paliashvili, Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas, James J. Corbett, and Prince Aribert of Anhalt.
1838 - 1881
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 56
1838 - 1927
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 57
1838 - 1918
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 58
1838 - 1904
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 59
1838 - Present
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 60
1838 - 1908
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 61
1838 - 1933
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 62
1838 - 1908
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 63
1838 - 1915
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 64
1838 - 1914
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 65
1838 - 1911
HPI: 50.29
Rank: 66
1838 - 1930
HPI: 49.77
Rank: 67
1838 - 1905
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 68
1846 - 1933
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 55
1857 - 1933
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 56
1864 - 1933
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 57
1889 - 1933
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 58
1861 - 1933
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 59
1855 - 1933
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 60
1838 - 1933
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 61
1869 - 1933
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 62
1878 - 1933
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 63
1871 - 1933
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 64
1860 - 1933
HPI: 50.57
Rank: 65
1866 - 1933
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 66
1866 - 1933
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 67
Among people born in Belarus, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 99 out of 330. Before him are Pyotr Klimuk (1942), Carl Anton von Meyer (1795), Vasily Ignatenko (1961), Zivia Lubetkin (1914), Ivonka Survilla (1936), and David Sarnoff (1891). After him are Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758), Benedykt Dybowski (1833), Lev Polugaevsky (1934), Bryachislav of Polotsk (997), Walery Antoni Wróblewski (1836), and Leonid Mandelstam (1879).
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 93
1795 - 1855
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 94
1961 - 1986
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 95
1914 - 1978
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 96
1936 - Present
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 97
1891 - 1971
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 98
1838 - 1933
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 99
1758 - 1841
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 100
1833 - 1930
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 101
1934 - 1995
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 102
997 - 1044
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 103
1836 - 1908
HPI: 50.73
Rank: 104
1879 - 1944
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 105
Among religious figures born in Belarus, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 3. Before him are Vilna Gaon (1720) and Kirill of Turov (1130). After him are Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789), Tadevuš Kandrusievič (1946), and Aleksandr Kurlovich (1961).
1720 - 1797
HPI: 61.14
Rank: 1
1130 - 1182
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 2
1838 - 1933
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 3
1789 - 1866
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 4
1946 - Present
HPI: 48.06
Rank: 5
1961 - 2018
HPI: 40.81
Rank: 6