RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Esther

600 BC - 500 BC

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Esther (originally Hadassah) is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther. The story the book tells is as follows: Ahasuerus, the king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, falls in love with the beautiful Jewish woman Esther and makes her his Queen. His grand vizier, Haman, is offended by Esther's cousin and guardian, Mordecai, who refuses to prostrate himself before Haman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Esther has received more than 4,320,451 page views. Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Esther is the 117th most popular religious figure (down from 107th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Iran (down from 13th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

Esther is most famous for being the heroine of the biblical book of Esther. The book tells the story of how she became Queen of Persia and saved her people from destruction.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Esthers by language

Over the past year Esther has had the most page views in the with 556,004 views, followed by Spanish (328,535), and Portuguese (152,111). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Pashto (300.00%), German (89.70%), and Turkish (81.08%)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Esther ranks 117 out of 3,187. Before her are Arius, Methuselah, Ahmed Yassin, Agatha of Sicily, Pope Pius II, and Thérèse of Lisieux. After her are Pope Adrian II, Elisha, Saint Sebastian, John Bosco, Clare of Assisi, and Pope Gregory XVI.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600 BC, Esther ranks 4. Before her are Cyrus the Great, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and Tomyris. After her are Lucretia, Ānanda, Servius Tullius, Peisistratos, Hippasus, Yaśodharā, Cambyses I, and Belshazzar. Among people deceased in 500 BC, Esther ranks 1. After her are Myron, Ānanda, Leucippus, Polykleitos, Hippasus, Artemisia I of Caria, Diogenes of Apollonia, Rāhula, Obadiah, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, and Gorgo, Queen of Sparta.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Esther ranks 15 out of 631. Before her are Darius III (-380), Harun al-Rashid (766), Ismail I (1487), Abu Nuwas (762), Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865), and Jabir ibn Hayyan (721). After her are Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), Hafez (1325), Ulugh Beg (1394), Cambyses II (-550), Malik-Shah I (1055), and Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Esther ranks 3. Before her are Zoroaster (-2000), and Ruhollah Khomeini (1902). After her are Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), Bahá'u'lláh (1817), Báb (1819), Ibn Majah (824), Mordecai (null), Sasan (200), and Anastasius of Persia (550).

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