RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Eugen Sandow

1867 - 1925

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Eugen Sandow (born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller, German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈmʏlɐ]; 2 April 1867 – 14 October 1925) was a German bodybuilder and showman from Prussia, using the Bulgarian last name Sandow as a pseudonym. Born in Königsberg, Sandow became interested in bodybuilding at the age of ten during a visit to Italy. After a spell in the circus, Sandow studied under strongman Ludwig Durlacher in the late 1880s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugen Sandow has received more than 1,466,144 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Eugen Sandow is the 750th most popular religious figure (up from 786th in 2019), the 283rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 345th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Religious Figure.

Eugen Sandow was a German strongman and bodybuilder who is most famous for his strongman feats of strength.

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  • 2.74

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Eugen Sandow ranks 750 out of 3,187. Before him are Apollinaris of Ravenna, Cornelius the Centurion, Eusebius of Nicomedia, Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak, Raymond of Penyafort, and Juliana of Nicomedia. After him are Josephine Bakhita, Saint Cajetan, Albert of Brandenburg, Erasmus of Formia, Antipope Nicholas V, and Theodora.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Eugen Sandow ranks 28. Before him are Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ignacy Mościcki, Irving Fisher, Umberto Giordano, Hector Guimard, and Sakichi Toyoda. After him are Alexander Parvus, Margaret Brown, Rubén Darío, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, and Percy Fawcett. Among people deceased in 1925, Eugen Sandow ranks 27. Before him are Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, Wong Fei-hung, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria, Félix Vallotton, and Hjalmar Branting. After him are Aleksey Kuropatkin, Karl Abraham, Oliver Heaviside, Fritz Haarmann, Percy Fawcett, and John Singer Sargent.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Eugen Sandow ranks 283 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Andrei Grechko (1903), Aleksandr Dugin (1962), Varlam Shalamov (1907), and Oleg Penkovsky (1919). After him are Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843), Eduard Limonov (1943), Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), Alexey Ekimov (1945), and Alexej von Jawlensky (1864).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Russia

Among religious figures born in Russia, Eugen Sandow ranks 6. Before him are Vladimir the Great (958), Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899), Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946), Seraphim of Sarov (1754), and Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605). After him are Ilia II of Georgia (1933), Sergius of Radonezh (1314), Avvakum (1620), Basil Fool for Christ (1468), Nadezhda von Meck (1831), and Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865).

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