RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Edmund Campion

1540 - 1581

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Edmund Campion, SJ (25 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Campion has received more than 497,239 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Edmund Campion is the 2,324th most popular religious figure (down from 2,072nd in 2019), the 2,838th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,705th in 2019) and the 67th most popular British Religious Figure.

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  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Edmund Campion ranks 2,324 out of 3,187. Before him are Javier Lozano Barragán, Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Crescenzio Sepe, Jean de Brébeuf, Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, and Diego Gelmírez. After him are Cesare Orsenigo, Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, Pedro Páez, Irmã Dulce, Herman of Alaska, and Heo Hwang-ok.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1540, Edmund Campion ranks 27. Before him are Hedwig of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Lady Katherine Grey, Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Giovanni Artusi, Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser, and Michael Rohoza. After him are Alessandro Striggio, ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni, and Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Among people deceased in 1581, Edmund Campion ranks 12. Before him are Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Guillaume Postel, Duchess Sabine of Württemberg, Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Louis Bertrand, and Honoré I, Lord of Monaco. After him is Frans Pourbus the Elder.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Campion ranks 2,838 out of 8,785. Before him are Rebecca Clarke (1886), Mary Dyer (1611), Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough (1681), Matthew Vaughn (1971), Henry Salt (1780), and Nevil Shute (1899). After him are Israel Regardie (1907), Ice MC (1965), Adrian Paul (1959), Shirley Eaton (1937), Jean Marsh (1934), and William Elford Leach (1791).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United Kingdom

Among religious figures born in United Kingdom, Edmund Campion ranks 67. Before him are Benedict Biscop (628), Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (1516), Agnes Baden-Powell (1858), Andrew Bell (1753), Hugh Latimer (1485), and Asser (900). After him are Richard Hooker (1554), Alkmund of Derby (800), John Colet (1467), Saint Mungo (518), Wilfrid (634), and Wulfhere of Mercia (650).

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