RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Charles Wesley

1707 - 1788

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Charles Wesley (18 December 1707 – 29 March 1788) was an English Anglican cleric and a principal leader of the Methodist movement. Wesley was a prolific hymnwriter who wrote over 6,500 hymns during his lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Wesley has received more than 1,048,539 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Charles Wesley is the 1,934th most popular religious figure (down from 1,727th in 2019), the 2,216th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,113th in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Charles Wesley ranks 1,934 out of 3,187. Before him are Teresa of the Andes, Cuthbert, Friar Julian, António de Andrade, Narcissus of Jerusalem, and J. F. Oberlin. After him are Mangsong Mangtsen, Peter Julian Eymard, Jacques Marquette, Abraham a Sancta Clara, William of the White Hands, and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1707, Charles Wesley ranks 12. Before him are Frederick, Prince of Wales, Henry Fielding, Louis-Michel van Loo, Louis, Duke of Brittany, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, and Michel Corrette. After him are Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Johannes Burman, Johann Amman, Stephen Hopkins, and Benjamin Robins. Among people deceased in 1788, Charles Wesley ranks 21. Before him are Toriyama Sekien, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Pierre André de Suffren, and Giovanni Domenico Maraldi. After him are Salomon Gessner, Francesco Zuccarelli, Mary Delany, Juan Bautista de Anza, John Whitehurst, and Benjamin Wilson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Wesley ranks 2,216 out of 8,785. Before him are Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925), William Hartnell (1908), Charles Barry (1795), Prince Henri of Orléans (1867), Cuthbert (635), and Alan Sillitoe (1928). After him are Edith Tolkien (1889), Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (1863), William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773), Steve McManaman (1972), Roger Hunt (1938), and Hamnet Shakespeare (1585).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United Kingdom

Among religious figures born in United Kingdom, Charles Wesley ranks 58. Before him are John Smyth (1570), Willibald (700), Mary Ward (1585), Roger Deakins (1949), Joseph Butler (1692), and Cuthbert (635). After him are Lullus (710), George Cruikshank (1792), Benedict Biscop (628), Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (1516), Agnes Baden-Powell (1858), and Andrew Bell (1753).

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