 Buddha and Guru Nanak were the founders of the Buddhist and Sikh religions respectively.Mahavira was the last Jain Tirthankara.Other important figures include Basava, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and others


Other important figures include Ali Hujwiri, the five founders of the Deobandi movement, and Akbar.