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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 952,864 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Billy Meier is the 1,176th most popular religious figure (down from 1,074th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 154th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swiss Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 950k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Billy Meier ranks 1,176 out of 2,238. Before him are Mata Amritanandamayi, Apollos, Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy, Saint Mercurius, Francesco Barberini, and Abdullah ibn Ja'far. After him are Theodulf of Orléans, Blandina, Yohanan ben Zakkai, Charles de Bourbon, Śāntarakṣita, and Jeremias II of Constantinople.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Billy Meier ranks 98. Before him are Neeme Järvi, Vittorio Brambilla, Petros Markaris, Jerry Reed, Ronald Venetiaan, and Franz Vranitzky. After him are Francis Veber, Roberta Flack, Valentyn Sylvestrov, Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, Ange-Félix Patassé, and Kōichirō Matsuura.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Billy Meier ranks 158 out of 876. Before him are Charles Dutoit (1936), Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (1968), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Ueli Maurer (1950), Köbi Kuhn (1943), and Ulrich of Augsburg (890). After him are Peter Sauber (1943), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Kurt Huber (1893), Charles Gleyre (1806), Charles Bally (1865), and Ami Argand (1750).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Switzerland

Among religious figures born in Switzerland, Billy Meier ranks 10. Before him are Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Anna Göldi (1734), Heinrich Bullinger (1504), Jacob Sprenger (1435), Jakob Ammann (1644), and Ulrich of Augsburg (890). After him are Emil Brunner (1889), Maurice Bavaud (1916), Henri Schwery (1932), Wiborada (900), Gilberto Agustoni (1922), and Georges Cottier (1922).

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