RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Dwight L. Moody

1837 - 1899

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Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 – December 26, 1899), also known as D. L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher connected with Keswickianism, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now Northfield Mount Hermon School), Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers. One of his most famous quotes was "Faith makes all things possible... Love makes all things easy." Moody gave up his lucrative boot and shoe business to devote his life to revivalism, working first in the Civil War with Union troops through YMCA in the United States Christian Commission. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dwight L. Moody has received more than 1,038,279 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Dwight L. Moody is the 2,062nd most popular religious figure (down from 1,816th in 2019), the 4,233rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,959th in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Dwight L. Moody has had the most page views in the with 129,676 views, followed by Portuguese (20,572), and Spanish (14,461). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Korean (94.11%), Welsh (61.11%), and Egyptian Arabic (60.95%)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Dwight L. Moody ranks 2,062 out of 3,187. Before him are Witness Lee, Józef Glemp, Mkrtich Khrimian, Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Francisco Álvarez Martínez, and Ghevont Alishan. After him are Hans Hermann Groër, Saint Sturm, Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Eduardo Francisco Pironio, Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow, and Anastasia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Dwight L. Moody ranks 68. Before him are Yohannes IV, Nicolás Avellaneda, Ernst Ziller, Tony Robert-Fleury, Kabayama Sukenori, and Horace Parnell Tuttle. After him are Henry Becque, Altaf Hussain Hali, Theodore Gill, Amelia Dyer, Ignatz Kolisch, and Francis Marrash. Among people deceased in 1899, Dwight L. Moody ranks 44. Before him are Mór Than, José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Sophronius IV of Alexandria, Paul Janet, Teodolfo Mertel, and Matsumura Sōkon. After him are Henry Becque, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, Juliusz Kossak, Adile Sultan, Lars Fredrik Nilson, and Ulises Heureaux.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dwight L. Moody ranks 4,233 out of 20,380. Before him are Philip H. Dybvig (1955), Thom Mayne (1944), Joe Johnston (1950), Newt Gingrich (1943), Alexander Payne (1961), and James Longstreet (1821). After him are Jim Davis (1945), Roy Buchanan (1939), Freddie Hubbard (1938), Jesse Jane (1980), Aldo Leopold (1887), and Imogen Cunningham (1883).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Dwight L. Moody ranks 35. Before him are Charles Fox Parham (1873), Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757), David Wilkerson (1931), David Koresh (1959), William J. Seymour (1870), and Lucian Pulvermacher (1918). After him are James Michael Harvey (1949), Jeralean Talley (1899), Yusuf Estes (1944), Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930), Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774), and Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919).

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