The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Jamaica
This page contains a list of the greatest Jamaican Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 2,238 Religious Figures, 3 of which were born in Jamaica. This makes Jamaica the birth place of the 75th most number of Religious Figures behind Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iceland.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Jamaican Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Jamaican Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Violet Brown (1900 - 2017)
With an HPI of 55.21, Violet Brown is the most famous Jamaican Religious Figure. Her biography has been translated into 29 different languages on wikipedia.
Violet Brown (née Mosse; 10 March 1900 – 15 September 2017) was a Jamaican supercentenarian who was the oldest verified living person in the world for five months, following the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her own death at the age of 117 years, 189 days on 15 September 2017. She was, along with Nabi Tajima of Japan, one of the last two living people known to have been born in the nineteenth century.
2. Patrick Allen (1951 - )
With an HPI of 47.68, Patrick Allen is the 2nd most famous Jamaican Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages.
Sir Patrick Linton Allen (born 7 February 1951) is a Jamaican statesman and former Seventh-day Adventist pastor, who has served as the sixth and current governor-general of Jamaica since 26 February 2009. The fourth of five children in a family of subsistence farmers, Allen spent over a decade as a teacher and principal, before leaving education to be trained as an Adventist minister at Andrews University in the United States. After becoming a pastor, Allen went on to serve in a number of leadership roles within the Seventh-day Adventist Church, eventually becoming the leader of the West Indies Union of Seventh-day Adventists, which had jurisdiction over Jamaica, The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Allen became Jamaica's sixth appointed governor-general (eighth overall, including two acting governors-general). He replaced Kenneth O. Hall, who resigned for health reasons. Allen's appointment was controversial due to his strong ties to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and because of concerns that he would be unable to attend functions on Saturdays due to his faith's strict observation of the Sabbath. Allen resigned from his leadership of the West Indies Union prior to becoming Governor-General, however.
3. Bilal Philips (1947 - )
With an HPI of 44.18, Bilal Philips is the 3rd most famous Jamaican Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips (born Dennis Bradley Philips; July 17, 1947) is a Jamaica-born Canadian Islamic teacher, speaker, author, founder and chancellor of the International Open University, who lives in Qatar. He has written, translated and commented on over 50 Islamic books and has appeared or presented on numerous national and satellite television channels, including Saudi TV, Sharjah TV, Ajman TV, Islam Channel, Huda TV, and Peace TV. Throughout his career, Philips has become the subject of many controversies, resulting in him being banned from entering the United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark and Kenya, banned from re-entering Germany, ordered to leave Bangladesh, and deported from the Philippines. He was also named by the US government as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Pantheon has 3 people classified as religious figures born between 1900 and 1951. Of these 3, 2 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living religious figures include Patrick Allen and Bilal Philips. The most famous deceased religious figures include Violet Brown. As of April 2022, 1 new religious figures have been added to Pantheon including Bilal Philips.
