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Swami Vivekananda(January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902), whose pre-monastic name was Narendranath Dutta was one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of the philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga and a major figure in the history of Hinduism, India, and Eastern thought in the West. Vivekananda was the first known Hindu Swami to come to the West, where he introduced Hinduism, Yoga and Vedanta at the World's Parliament of Religions, in connection with the World's Fair in Chicago, in 1893. It was there that he was catapulted to fame by his by wide audiences in Chicago and then later elsewhere in America.