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B. K. S. Iyengar

1918 - 2014

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Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar (14 December 1918 – 20 August 2014) was an Indian teacher of yoga and author. He is the founder of the style of yoga as exercise, known as "Iyengar Yoga", and was considered one of the foremost yoga gurus in the world. He was the author of many books on yoga practice and philosophy including Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and Light on Life. Iyengar was one of the earliest students of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who is often referred to as "the father of modern yoga". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. B. K. S. Iyengar is the 1,494th most popular writer (up from 1,496th in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from India (down from 191st in 2019) and the 29th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among writers, B. K. S. Iyengar ranks 1,494 out of 7,302. Before him are Winifred Wagner, Elizabeth Siddal, Hugo Claus, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Veronica Franco, and François de Malherbe. After him are Robert Bloch, Robin Hobb, Ibn al-Khatib, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Gustav Landauer, and Gampopa.

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Among people born in 1918, B. K. S. Iyengar ranks 79. Before him are John Forsythe, Jeff Chandler, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Spiro Agnew, W. Eugene Smith, and Jin Youzhi. After him are Gabriel Axel, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Richard Winters, Fernando Peyroteo, Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria, and Fanny Blankers-Koen. Among people deceased in 2014, B. K. S. Iyengar ranks 84. Before him are Milan Galić, Karl Albrecht, Henry Hartsfield, Vladimir Beara, Hal Finney, and Billy Milligan. After him are Siegfried Lenz, Gabriel Axel, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Alice Herz-Sommer, Ben Bradlee, and Oscar de la Renta.

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In India

Among people born in India, B. K. S. Iyengar ranks 237 out of 1,861. Before him are Kamala Sohonie (1912), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Ajay Banga (1959), Jayadeva (1170), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), and Chaudhry Muhammad Ali (1905). After him are S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Amrit Kaur (1889), Namdev (1270), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Hema Malini (1948), and Amjad Khan (1940).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, B. K. S. Iyengar ranks 29. Before him are Ahmed Deedat (1918), Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838), Bharata Muni (-1000), Vidyapati (1352), and Deepak Chopra (1946). After him are Namdev (1270), Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820), Mahadevi Varma (1907), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), Anna Leonowens (1831), and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876).

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