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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

1896 - 1977

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Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (IAST: Abhaya Caraṇāravinda Bhaktivedānta Svāmī Prabhupāda; Bengali: অভয় চরণারবিন্দ ভক্তিবেদান্ত স্বামী প্রভুপাদ) (1 September 1896 – 14 November 1977) was a spiritual, philosophical, and religious teacher from India who spread the Hare Krishna mantra and the teachings of "Krishna consciousness" to the world. Born as Abhay Charan De and later legally named Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami, he is often referred to as "Bhaktivedanta Swami", "Srila Prabhupada", or simply "Prabhupada". To carry out an order received in his youth from his spiritual teacher to spread "Krishna consciousness" in English, he journeyed from Kolkata to New York City in 1965 at the age of 69, on a cargo ship with little more than a few trunks of books. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is the 286th most popular religious figure (up from 1,096th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from India (up from 190th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Religious Figure.

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is most famous for his translations of the Bhagavad Gita and the Srimad Bhagavatam.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 286 out of 3,187. Before him are Pope Sixtus III, Pope Adeodatus I, Vladimir the Great, Pope Sergius III, Elizabeth of Hungary, and John of the Cross. After him are Pope Lucius I, Pope Pontian, Pope Gregory II, Pope Agatho, Pope Anicetus, and Jethro.

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Among people born in 1896, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 8. Before him are Wallis Simpson, Jean Piaget, Georgy Zhukov, Lev Vygotsky, André Breton, and Imre Nagy. After him are Tristan Tzara, Roman Jakobson, Antonin Artaud, Gerty Cori, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and Konstantin Rokossovsky. Among people deceased in 1977, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 8. Before him are Elvis Presley, Maria Callas, Edgar Adrian, Vladimir Nabokov, Stefania Turkewich, and Wernher von Braun. After him are Clementine Churchill, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Ludwig Erhard, René Goscinny, Lee Miller, and Anthony Eden.

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In India

Among people born in India, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 35 out of 1,861. Before him are Jamsetji Tata (1839), Vivien Leigh (1913), Ānanda (-600), Brahmagupta (598), Rani of Jhansi (1828), and Padmasambhava (717). After him are Zakir Husain (1897), Amir Khusrow (1253), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), Chandragupta Maurya (-340), and Valmiki (-80).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 3. Before him are Mahavira (-599), and Ānanda (-600). After him are Sathya Sai Baba (1926), Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Maudgalyayana (-568), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), and Radha (null).

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