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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Alessandro Valignano

1539 - 1606

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Alessandro Valignano, S.J., sometimes Valignani (Chinese: 范禮安 Fàn Lǐ’ān; February 1539 – January 20, 1606), was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary born in Chieti, part of the Kingdom of Naples, who helped supervise the introduction of Catholicism to the Far East, and especially to Japan and China. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alessandro Valignano has received more than 267,212 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Alessandro Valignano is the 933rd most popular religious figure (down from 925th in 2019), the 1,321st most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,406th in 2019) and the 299th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Alessandro Valignano ranks 933 out of 2,238Before him are Peter Mogila, William Miller, Paolo Giovio, John of Leiden, Peter Claver, and Reginald Pole. After him are Severinus of Noricum, José Freire Falcão, Heinrich Bullinger, Antipope Victor IV, Jacob Frank, and Bavo of Ghent.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1539, Alessandro Valignano ranks 4Before him are Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Federico Zuccari, and Archduchess Barbara of Austria. After him are Fausto Sozzini, Giovanni Andrea Doria, Catherine Vasa of Sweden, Chōsokabe Motochika, George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, Louis VI, Elector Palatine, and Jost Amman. Among people deceased in 1606, Alessandro Valignano ranks 6Before him are Guy Fawkes, False Dmitry I, Justus Lipsius, Karel van Mander, and Stephen Bocskai. After him are Boşnak Derviş Mehmed Pasha, Giovanni Andrea Doria, Guru Arjan, Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Turibius of Mogrovejo, and John Lyly.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Valignano ranks 1,321 out of 4,668Before him are Scipione del Ferro (1465), Gioffre Borgia (1481), Gianna Nannini (1954), Timaeus of Locri (-200), Tito Gobbi (1913), and Lambert of Italy (880). After him are Pietro Della Valle (1586), Piero Manzoni (1933), Mario Capecchi (1937), Renata Scotto (1934), Mikhail Tsvet (1872), and Andreas Hofer (1767).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Alessandro Valignano ranks 299Before him are Arnold of Brescia (1100), Gerolamo Emiliani (1486), Methodios I of Constantinople (788), Tatiana of Rome (200), Antipope John XVI (1000), and Paolo Giovio (1483). After him are Peter of Verona (1206), Agostino Casaroli (1914), Felix of Cantalice (1515), Ippolito de' Medici (1511), Margaret of Cortona (1247), and Caesar Baronius (1538).