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Tukārām was a prominent Marathi Sant and religious poet in the Hindu tradition in India.
He was born and lived most of his life in Dehu, a town close to Pune city in Mahārāshtra, India. He was born to a couple with the family name "Moray" - the descendent of the Mourya Clan (Āmbile) and first names Bolhobā and Kanakāi.

Through a tradition in India in bygone days, Tukaram's family name is rarely used in identifying him. Rather, in accord with another tradition in India of assigning the epithet "sant" (संत) to persons regarded as thoroughly saintly, Tukaram is commonly known in Maharashtra as Sant Tukaram (संत तुकाराम). He is also believed to be spiritual guru of Shivaji.

Scholars assign various birth years to Tukaram: 1577, 1598, 1608 and (the most likely) 1609 CE. The year of Tukaram's death --1650 CE-- is much more certain.
Tukaram's first wife, Rakhumābāi, had died in her early youth. Tukaram and his second wife, Jijābāi (also known as Āvali), had three sons: Santu or Mahādev, Vithobā, and Nārāyan.

Annamacharya was born on Vaisakha Suddha Pournami in the year Sarwadhari (May 9, 1408) in Tallapaka, a remote village in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh, India. He lived immaculately for 95 years until Phalguna Bahula Dwadasi (12th day after full moon) in the year Dhundhubhi (February 23, 1503). His wife, Thimmakka is also a poet and had written Subhadra Kalyanam and considered as the first Telugu women poet. His Son PeddaTirumalacharya is also a well known vaggeyakari(poet).

Annamacharya was labelled 'pada kavita pitaamaha'. He has taken the ramanuja saampradayam, with the blessings of sri satha gopa yateendra of ahobila matham. Annamacaharya composed, about 32,000 sankeertanas on sri venkateswara , composed 'sri alamelumanga sri venkateswara satakam'. He was also said to have composed ramayanam.