OCCULTIST

Anton LaVey

1930 - 1997

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Anton Szandor LaVey (born Howard Stanton Levey; April 11, 1930 – October 29, 1997) was an American author, musician, and LaVeyan Satanist. He was the founder of the Church of Satan, the philosophy of LaVeyan Satanism, and the concept of Satanism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton LaVey has received more than 6,807,511 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. Anton LaVey is the 14th most popular occultist (down from 9th in 2019), the 997th most popular biography from United States (down from 327th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Occultist.

Anton LaVey is most famous for founding the Church of Satan in 1966. He authored the Satanic Bible and the Satanic Rituals, and he was the High Priest of the Church of Satan until his death in 1997.

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  • 62.65

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  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Anton LaVey ranks 14 out of 41. Before him are Alessandro Cagliostro, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Allan Kardec, Éliphas Lévi, Joachim of Fiore, and Edgar Cayce. After him are Gérard Encausse, Edward Kelley, Guido von List, Erik Jan Hanussen, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, and Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Anton LaVey ranks 58. Before him are Jerome Isaac Friedman, Leon Cooper, Adunis, Moustapha Akkad, Yves Chauvin, and Tippi Hedren. After him are Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, Jesús Franco, Buck Henry, Reinhard Selten, Mary Quant, and Joanne Woodward. Among people deceased in 1997, Anton LaVey ranks 45. Before him are Cornelius Castoriadis, John Eccles, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, John Kendrew, Otto Ernst Remer, and Diosdado Macapagal. After him are Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, Alfred Hershey, Alexander R. Todd, Nikolai Tikhonov, Shoichi Yokoi, and John Denver.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anton LaVey ranks 997 out of 20,380. Before him are Frances Marion (1888), Grant Wood (1891), Dennis Tito (1940), Mel Ferrer (1917), Tori Amos (1963), and Daniel Goleman (1946). After him are Tony Bennett (1926), Roger Zelazny (1937), Kary Mullis (1944), John Gotti (1940), Sherwood Anderson (1876), and Karl Barry Sharpless (1941).

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Among OCCULTISTS In United States

Among occultists born in United States, Anton LaVey ranks 2. Before him are Edgar Cayce (1877). After him are A. E. Waite (1857).

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