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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Zoroaster

2000 BC - 2000 BC

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Zoroaster, also known as Zarathustra, was a religious reformer and the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. In about 1000BC he founded the first documented monotheistic religion in the world and also had an impact on Plato, Pythagoras, and the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Zoroastrians believe that he was a prophet who transmitted God's messages and founded a religious movement that challenged the existing traditions of ancient Iranian religion, while in the minority Ahmadiyya branch of Islam and in the Baháʼí Faith, he is also considered a prophet. He was a native speaker of Avestan and lived in the eastern part of the Iranian plateau, while his birthplace may have been in northeastern Iran or southwestern Afghanistan.Most scholars, using linguistic and socio-cultural evidence, suggest a dating to somewhere in the second millennium BC. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zoroaster has received more than 5,330,873 page views. His biography is available in 113 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 112 in 2019). Zoroaster is the 13th most popular religious figure (down from 11th in 2019), the most popular biography from Iran and the most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

Zoroaster is most famous for founding Zoroastrianism.

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  • 5.3M

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  • 86.19

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  • 113

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Zoroaster ranks 13 out of 2,238Before him are Pope Francis, Paul the Apostle, Solomon, Saint Peter, John the Baptist, and Tutankhamun. After him are Saint Nicholas, Jacob, Pope John Paul II, Francis of Assisi, Aaron, and Isaac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 2000 BC, Zoroaster ranks 1After him are Senusret I, Vishvamitra, Sumu-abum, Vasishtha, Gautama Maharishi, Bharadwaja, Erishum I, Ilu-shuma, Atri, Ur-Ninurta, and Gungunum. Among people deceased in 2000 BC, Zoroaster ranks 1After him are Hagar, Vishvamitra, Vasishtha, Gautama Maharishi, Bharadwaja, Xie of Xia, Mang of Xia, Ilu-shuma, Atri, Bu Jiang, and Jiong of Xia.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Zoroaster ranks 1 out of 528After him are Omar Khayyam (1048), Al-Ghazali (1058), Cyrus the Great (-600), Xerxes I (-519), Darius III (-380), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919), Ruhollah Khomeini (1902), Harun al-Rashid (766), Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865), Ismail I (1487), and Jabir ibn Hayyan (721).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Zoroaster ranks 1After him are Ruhollah Khomeini (1902), Esther (-600), Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), Bahá'u'lláh (1817), Báb (1819), Ibn Majah (824), Piruz Nahavandi (700), Mordecai (null), and Sasan (200).