RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Bill W.

1895 - 1971

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William Griffith Wilson (November 26, 1895 – January 24, 1971), also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) with Bob Smith. AA is an international mutual aid fellowship with about two million members worldwide belonging to AA groups, associations, organizations, cooperatives, and fellowships of alcoholics helping other alcoholics achieve and maintain sobriety. Following AA's Twelfth Tradition of anonymity, Wilson is commonly known as "Bill W." or "Bill". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bill W. has received more than 2,023,571 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Bill W. is the 1,895th most popular religious figure (down from 1,808th in 2019), the 3,756th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,920th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Bill W. ranks 1,895 out of 3,187. Before her are Karekin I, Peter Chanel, Itta of Metz, Camillo Ruini, John XIV of Constantinople, and Pishoy. After her are José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Ashraf Ali Thanwi, Pedro Barreto, Elizabeth Bolden, Optatus, and Hossein Wahid Khorasani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Bill W. ranks 139. Before her are Gregorio Pietro Agagianian, Gustav Lombard, Vsevolod Merkulov, Carl Lutz, Roza Eskenazi, and Feng Youlan. After her are Machine Gun Kelly, Erich Abraham, Jankel Adler, Iona Nikitchenko, Nahum Goldmann, and Laurens Hammond. Among people deceased in 1971, Bill W. ranks 96. Before her are Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev, Gregorio Pietro Agagianian, Paul Lévy, Bobby Jones, and Thomas E. Dewey. After her are Gioacchino Guaragna, Albin Stenroos, Erich Abraham, Edith Tolkien, Paul Bader, and Péter Szondi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bill W. ranks 3,756 out of 20,380. Before her are John C. Breckinridge (1821), Lloyd Bacon (1889), Traci Lords (1968), Bruce Sterling (1954), Edwin Drake (1819), and Hank Azaria (1964). After her are SZA (1990), Bret Easton Ellis (1964), Laura Bridgman (1829), Orson Bean (1928), Lori Lightfoot (1962), and Golden State Killer (1945).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Bill W. ranks 27. Before her are Samuel Wilson (1766), Nathan Homer Knorr (1905), Raymond Franz (1922), Don Alden Adams (1925), Fulton J. Sheen (1895), and Kateri Tekakwitha (1656). After her are Elizabeth Bolden (1890), Charles Fox Parham (1873), Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757), David Wilkerson (1931), David Koresh (1959), and William J. Seymour (1870).

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