RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Billy Meier

1937 - Today

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Eduard Albert Meier (born 3 February 1937), commonly nicknamed "Billy", is the founder of a UFO religion called the "Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien" (Free Community of Interests for the Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies) and alleged contactee whose UFO photographs are claimed to show alien spacecraft. Meier claims to be in regular contact with extraterrestrial beings he calls the Plejaren. He also presented other material during the 1970s such as metal samples, sound recordings and film footage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Billy Meier has received more than 941,533 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 25 in 2019). Billy Meier is the 1,291st most popular religious figure (down from 1,167th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 158th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swiss Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 940k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Billy Meiers by language

Over the past year Billy Meier has had the most page views in the with 127,956 views, followed by Spanish (77,461), and Portuguese (12,453). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Portuguese (264.76%), Spanish (56.24%), and Korean (49.48%)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Billy Meier ranks 1,291 out of 3,187. Before him are Juliana of Liège, Teobaldo Boccapecci, Robert Estienne, Jean-Marie Villot, Jean Calas, and Asma bint Umais. After him are Diego Laynez, Saint Fiacre, Joanna, wife of Chuza, Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, Andrey Sheptytsky, and Paisius Velichkovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Billy Meier ranks 116. Before him are Monika Ertl, Tsukasa Hosaka, Steven Berkoff, Petros Markaris, Alfredo M. Bonanno, and Aleksandr Medved. After him are Bettina Heinen-Ayech, Joseph Kobzon, Hibari Misora, Nikolai Kapustin, Daniel McFadden, and Olusegun Obasanjo.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Billy Meier ranks 186 out of 1,015. Before him are Isabelle Eberhardt (1877), Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (1968), Joanna of Pfirt (1300), DJ BoBo (1968), Jonas Furrer (1805), and Hans Martin Sutermeister (1907). After him are Simonetta Sommaruga (1960), Joachim Raff (1822), Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886), Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (1718), Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Anjou (1420), and Pietro Lombardo (1435).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Switzerland

Among religious figures born in Switzerland, Billy Meier ranks 11. Before him are Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445), Heinrich Bullinger (1504), Jacob Sprenger (1435), Jakob Ammann (1644), and Ulrich of Augsburg (890). After him are Wiborada (900), Emil Brunner (1889), Saint Othmar (689), Kurt Koch (1950), Anders Arborelius (1949), and Gilberto Agustoni (1922).

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