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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 1,049,383 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Dwight L. Moody is the 1,830th most popular religious figure (down from 1,547th in 2019), the 3,970th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,689th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Religious Figure.

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  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Dwight L. Moody ranks 1,830 out of 2,238. Before him are Saint Aurelius, Jorge María Mejía, Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, Wolfgang Capito, George Cruikshank, and Guido Marini. After him are Karekin I, John Tong Hon, Jón Ögmundsson, Pedro Casaldáliga, Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, and Peter Julian Eymard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Dwight L. Moody ranks 59. Before him are Yohannes IV, Sanjō Sanetomi, George Dewey, Hans von Marées, Zhang Zhidong, and Nicolás Avellaneda. After him are Kabayama Sukenori, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Robert Gould Shaw, Henry Becque, Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar, and Ernst Ziller. Among people deceased in 1899, Dwight L. Moody ranks 36. Before him are Carl Millöcker, Lucien Quélet, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Guido Gezelle, Heinrich Kiepert, and Robert G. Ingersoll. After him are Teodolfo Mertel, Sophronius IV of Alexandria, Henry Becque, Wilhelm Jordan, George Averoff, and Gaston Tissandier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dwight L. Moody ranks 3,970 out of 18,182. Before him are Jack Arnold (1916), Roy Buchanan (1939), Ann Morgan Guilbert (1928), Sandahl Bergman (1951), Ralph Nader (1934), and Mercedes de Acosta (1892). After him are Don Adams (1923), Glen Cook (1944), Afrika Bambaataa (1957), Michael Peña (1976), Jeff Hanneman (1964), and Robert Bly (1926).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Dwight L. Moody ranks 30. Before him are Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919), Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930), Fulton J. Sheen (1895), Don Alden Adams (1925), Squanto (1585), and Bill W. (1895). After him are Ellen Church (1904), Seraphim Rose (1934), David Koresh (1959), Charles Fox Parham (1873), Elizabeth Bolden (1890), and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757).

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