RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Tammy Faye Messner

1942 - 2007

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Tamara Faye Messner (née LaValley, formerly Bakker ; March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007) was an American evangelist. She co-founded the televangelist program The PTL Club with her husband Jim Bakker in 1974. They had hosted their own puppet-show series for local programming in the early 1960s; Messner also had a career as a recording artist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tammy Faye Messner has received more than 8,760,129 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Tammy Faye Messner is the 2,444th most popular religious figure, the 5,704th most popular biography from United States and the 45th most popular American Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Tammy Faye Messners by language

Over the past year Tammy Faye Messner has had the most page views in the with 568,653 views, followed by Italian (34,418), and Spanish (28,961). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (184.80%), Simple English (58.36%), and Korean (20.64%)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Tammy Faye Messner ranks 2,444 out of 3,187. Before her are Vladimír Holan, Secundus of Asti, János Scitovszky, John Patrick Foley, Zygmunt Gorazdowski, and Nikolay Ilminsky. After her are Edwin Frederick O'Brien, Francesco Marchisano, Theodore of Tarsus, Gad, Christodoulos of Athens, and Squanto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Tammy Faye Messner ranks 389. Before her are Michael Eisner, Celso Amorim, José Serra, Reiner Schöne, Eric Shinseki, and Krister Kristensson. After her are Galina Kulakova, Uğur Mumcu, Mike Resnick, Gérard Pirès, Rubén Salazar Gómez, and Marcia Wallace. Among people deceased in 2007, Tammy Faye Messner ranks 226. Before her are Isidore Isou, Floyd Westerman, Petr Eben, Ernesto Alonso, Frankie Laine, and Huang Ju. After her are Hallgeir Brenden, Bruno Ruffo, Helmut Senekowitsch, Klausjürgen Wussow, Milan Jelić, and Francisco Umbral.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tammy Faye Messner ranks 5,704 out of 20,380. Before her are Elizabeth Mitchell (1970), Sidney Johnson (1877), Amina Wadud (1952), David White (1916), Harry Carey (1878), and Isabella Karle (1921). After her are Sheila E. (1957), Jimmie Rodgers (1897), Sabrina Carpenter (1999), Carmen Basilio (1927), Johnny Appleseed (1774), and Catherine Hardwicke (1955).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Tammy Faye Messner ranks 45. Before her are Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930), Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774), Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919), Dorothy Stang (1931), Seraphim Rose (1934), and John Patrick Foley (1935). After her are Edwin Frederick O'Brien (1939), Squanto (1585), Milman Parry (1902), William Wakefield Baum (1926), Thomas S. Monson (1927), and Emma Tillman (1892).

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