628 - 690
Benedict Biscop (c. 628 – 690), also known as Biscop Baducing, was an Anglo-Saxon abbot and founder of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory (where he also founded the famous library) and was considered a saint after his death. Baducing has been suggested to appear as Biscop Beding the Son of Beda Bubbing, King of Mercia in the Lyndsey/Lindfearnan lists of geneaologies held by the Anglian Collection and Great-Grandfather of Alfred The Great. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benedict Biscop has received more than 118,245 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Benedict Biscop is the 1,909th most popular religious figure (down from 1,830th in 2019), the 2,396th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,730th in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Religious Figure.
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Among religious figures, Benedict Biscop ranks 1,909 out of 2,238. Before him are Kurt Koch, Karl Leisner, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Victor and Corona, Yisrael Meir Kagan, and Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino. After him are Paul I of Constantinople, Georg Gänswein, Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Hans Hermann Groër, Hypatius Pociej, and Raphael Kalinowski.
1950 - Present
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 1,903
1915 - 1945
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 1,904
1939 - 2021
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 1,905
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 1,906
1838 - 1933
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 1,907
1936 - 2019
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 1,908
628 - 690
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 1,909
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 1,910
1956 - Present
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 1,911
1933 - Present
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 1,912
1919 - 2003
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 1,913
1541 - 1613
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 1,914
1835 - 1907
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 1,915
Among people born in 628, Benedict Biscop ranks 3. Before him are Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Princess Wencheng. Among people deceased in 690, Benedict Biscop ranks 4. Before him are Paul of Aegina, Batbayan, and Julian of Toledo. After him is Theodore of Tarsus.
628 - 683
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 1
628 - 680
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 2
628 - 690
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 3
625 - 690
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 1
700 - 690
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 2
642 - 690
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 3
628 - 690
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 4
602 - 690
HPI: 50.08
Rank: 5
Among people born in United Kingdom, Benedict Biscop ranks 2,396 out of 7,765. Before him are Bob Anderson (1931), Peter Pears (1910), Terence Fisher (1904), Michael Green (1946), Lesley Manville (1956), and Michael Berry (1941). After him are Richard Burbage (1567), Gerry Adams (1948), Leo Genn (1905), Edmund Gwenn (1877), William Gull (1816), and Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805).
1931 - 1967
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 2,390
1910 - 1986
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 2,391
1904 - 1980
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 2,392
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 2,393
1956 - Present
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 2,394
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 2,395
628 - 690
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 2,396
1567 - 1619
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 2,397
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 2,398
1905 - 1978
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 2,399
1877 - 1959
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 2,400
1816 - 1890
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 2,401
1805 - 1848
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 2,402
Among religious figures born in United Kingdom, Benedict Biscop ranks 59. Before him are Saint Alban (300), Barbara West (1911), Charles Wesley (1707), George Cruikshank (1792), Richard Williamson (1940), and Agnes Baden-Powell (1858). After him are Malo (487), Asser (900), Christian Horner (1973), Edmund Campion (1540), Anne Hutchinson (1591), and Wilfrid (634).
300 - 305
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 53
1911 - 2007
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 54
1707 - 1788
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 55
1792 - 1878
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 56
1940 - Present
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 57
1858 - 1945
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 58
628 - 690
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 59
487 - 621
HPI: 50.48
Rank: 60
900 - 908
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 61
1973 - Present
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 62
1540 - 1581
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 63
1591 - 1643
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 64
634 - 709
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 65