The Great Ones · South Asia
Guru Nanak
Image: Amritpal Singh Mann. Painted by Jaimal Singh Naqqash (1860–1916), Mehtab Singh Naqqash (1871–1940), and Hukum Singh. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Guru Nanak

1469–1539

Founder of Sikhism and teacher of devotion and equality.

Guru Nanak (1469–1539) endures among the great of South Asia. Founder of Sikhism and teacher of devotion and equality.

Across the early modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost.

Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.

Submitted with honor.

Submitted by the Honored Ancestors Editorial Committee.