RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Dominican Republic

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Dominican Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Dominican Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez (b. 1936)

With an HPI of 57.00, Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez is the most famous Dominican Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.

Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez (Spanish pronunciation: [nikoˈlas ðe xeˈsus ˈlopes roˈðɾiɣes]; born 31 October 1936) is a Dominican cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and archbishop emeritus of Santo Domingo.

2. Bartolo Colón (b. 1973)

With an HPI of 43.30, Bartolo Colón is the 2nd most famous Dominican Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Bartolo Colón (born May 24, 1973), nicknamed "Big Sexy", is a Dominican-American professional baseball pitcher for the Karachi Monarchs of Baseball United. He previously played for 11 different Major League Baseball (MLB) teams: the Cleveland Indians (1997–2002), Montreal Expos (2002), Chicago White Sox (2003, 2009), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2004–2007), Boston Red Sox (2008), New York Yankees (2011), Oakland Athletics (2012–2013), New York Mets (2014–2016), Atlanta Braves (2017), Minnesota Twins (2017), and Texas Rangers (2018). Colón also played for the Águilas Cibaeñas of the Dominican Professional Baseball League (Dominican Winter League) and the Acereros de Monclova of the Mexican League. Colón was selected to four MLB All-Star Games: for the Indians (1998), Angels (2005), Athletics (2013), and Mets (2016). He won the American League Cy Young Award with the Angels in 2005, when he led the league in wins. With the Mets in 2016, he became the oldest player to hit his first career home run, at 42 years and 349 days old. At age 45 during the 2018 season, Colón was the oldest active major league player and the last to have played for the Montreal Expos. He holds the record for most career wins by a Latin American-born pitcher. In his last major-league season (2018), Colón and Rangers teammate Adrián Beltré were the last active players to have played in the 1990s. In August 2022, Colón announced that he intended to retire after the 2022–23 Dominican winter season. However, on October 23, 2023, Colón was drafted by the Karachi Monarchs of Baseball United.