RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Aimee Semple McPherson

1890 - 1944

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Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson (née Kennedy; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian-born Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for founding the Foursquare Church. McPherson pioneered the use of broadcast mass media for wider dissemination of both religious services and appeals for donations, using radio to draw in both audience and revenue with the growing appeal of popular entertainment and incorporating stage techniques into her weekly sermons at Angelus Temple, an early megachurch. In her time, she was the most publicized Protestant evangelist, surpassing Billy Sunday and other predecessors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aimee Semple McPherson has received more than 2,195,075 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Aimee Semple McPherson is the 2,735th most popular religious figure, the 405th most popular biography from Canada and the 6th most popular Canadian Religious Figure.

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  • 54.02

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Aimee Semple McPherson ranks 2,735 out of 3,187. Before her are Mustafa Cerić, Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn, Jean Marcel Honoré, Lojze Grozde, and Vicente Enrique y Tarancón. After her are Youssef Absi, Franziskus von Bettinger, Gérald Lacroix, Emmanuel Wamala, Marek Jędraszewski, and Louis-Marie Billé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Aimee Semple McPherson ranks 199. Before her are Rainer von Fieandt, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Mortimer Wheeler, Stanley Holloway, Edgar Kennedy, and Verna Felton. After her are Eino Kaila, Cecil Kellaway, Jean Piot, Ichiya Kumagae, Stratis Myrivilis, and Imre Zachár. Among people deceased in 1944, Aimee Semple McPherson ranks 266. Before her are Alejandro Villanueva, Han Yong-un, Benedicto de Moraes Menezes, Tatyana Makarova, Charles Dana Gibson, and Mary Adela Blagg. After her are Karel Hartmann, Frank Knox, Arthur Smith Woodward, Abdulla Aliş, Grace Chisholm Young, and Jean Prévost.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Aimee Semple McPherson ranks 405 out of 1,622. Before her are Alex Lifeson (1953), Alex Trebek (1940), Robert Joy (1951), Earl Thomson (1895), Billy Bishop (1894), and Sarah Chalke (1976). After her are John Howe (1957), Shawn Ashmore (1979), Gérald Lacroix (1957), Étienne Desmarteau (1873), Georges St-Pierre (1981), and Pat Patterson (1941).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Canada

Among religious figures born in Canada, Aimee Semple McPherson ranks 6. Before her are Marc Ouellet (1944), Gaëtan Dugas (1952), André Bessette (1845), Jacques Plante (1929), and Jean-Claude Turcotte (1936). After her are Gérald Lacroix (1957), Thomas Christopher Collins (1947), Paul Grégoire (1911), Charles Scicluna (1959), Hilarion Kapral (1948), and Charles Coughlin (1891).

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