1954 - Today
Brother Alois (born Alois Löser; 11 June 1954) is the former prior of the Taizé Community. He succeeded Brother Roger as the community's second prior after the founder's death on 16 August 2005. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brother Alois has received more than 43,558 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Brother Alois is the 2,470th most popular religious figure (down from 2,073rd in 2019), the 4,345th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,966th in 2019) and the 105th most popular German Religious Figure.
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Among religious figures, Brother Alois ranks 2,470 out of 2,238. Before him are Comgall mac Domangairt, Paulos Faraj Rahho, Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Paul Yü Pin, Charles Maung Bo, and William de Longchamp. After him are Bruno Heim, Jonathan Sacks, Zabaia, Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Mariam Thresia Chiramel, and Nechtan nepos Uerb.
500 - 538
HPI: 45.34
Rank: 2,464
1942 - 2008
HPI: 45.30
Rank: 2,465
516 - 546
HPI: 45.29
Rank: 2,466
1901 - 1978
HPI: 45.28
Rank: 2,467
1948 - Present
HPI: 45.27
Rank: 2,468
1101 - 1197
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 2,469
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.17
Rank: 2,470
1911 - 2003
HPI: 45.17
Rank: 2,471
1948 - 2020
HPI: 45.16
Rank: 2,472
HPI: 45.14
Rank: 2,473
1970 - Present
HPI: 45.12
Rank: 2,474
1876 - 1926
HPI: 45.11
Rank: 2,475
501 - 620
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 2,476
Among people born in 1954, Brother Alois ranks 332. Before him are Barry Ackroyd, Oscar Larrauri, Antonio Resines, Jeffrey Combs, Jo Gartner, and Louis Sachar. After him are Marc Ribot, Sumi Shimamoto, Marta Lucía Ramírez, Yuji Kishioku, Susan Kare, and Fiorella Mannoia.
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.35
Rank: 326
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.34
Rank: 327
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.33
Rank: 328
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.33
Rank: 329
1954 - 1986
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 330
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 331
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.17
Rank: 332
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.16
Rank: 333
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.13
Rank: 334
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.09
Rank: 335
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 336
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 337
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 338
Among people born in Germany, Brother Alois ranks 4,345 out of 6,142. Before him are Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus (1835), Günther Jauch (1956), Wolfgang Hofmann (1941), Peter Fleischmann (1937), Hans Nowak (1937), and Natja Brunckhorst (1966). After him are Stanislaw Tillich (1959), Bill Kaulitz (1989), Edgar Reinhardt (1914), Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934), Tatjana Patitz (1966), and Walter Giller (1927).
1835 - 1899
HPI: 45.22
Rank: 4,339
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.22
Rank: 4,340
1941 - 2020
HPI: 45.22
Rank: 4,341
1937 - 2021
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 4,342
1937 - 2012
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 4,343
1966 - Present
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 4,344
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.17
Rank: 4,345
1959 - Present
HPI: 45.17
Rank: 4,346
1989 - Present
HPI: 45.16
Rank: 4,347
1914 - 1985
HPI: 45.14
Rank: 4,348
1934 - 2007
HPI: 45.14
Rank: 4,349
1966 - 2023
HPI: 45.13
Rank: 4,350
1927 - 2011
HPI: 45.11
Rank: 4,351
Among religious figures born in Germany, Brother Alois ranks 105. Before him are Franz Delitzsch (1813), Joseph Höffner (1906), Julius Döpfner (1913), Franz Ehrle (1845), Rainer Woelki (1956), and Franziskus von Bettinger (1850). After him are Joseph Wendel (1901), Hermann Volk (1903), Johannes Joachim Degenhardt (1926), Chris Gueffroy (1968), Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst (1959), and Ludwig Schick (1949).
1813 - 1890
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 99
1906 - 1987
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 100
1913 - 1976
HPI: 46.81
Rank: 101
1845 - 1934
HPI: 46.31
Rank: 102
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.95
Rank: 103
1850 - Present
HPI: 45.67
Rank: 104
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.17
Rank: 105
1901 - 1960
HPI: 44.91
Rank: 106
1903 - 1988
HPI: 44.41
Rank: 107
1926 - 2002
HPI: 43.47
Rank: 108
1968 - 1989
HPI: 41.59
Rank: 109
1959 - Present
HPI: 39.46
Rank: 110
1949 - Present
HPI: 39.44
Rank: 111