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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Gaëtan Dugas

1952 - 1984

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Gaëtan Dugas (French: [ɡaetɑ̃ dyɡa]; February 19, 1952 – March 30, 1984) was a Québécois Canadian flight attendant and a relatively early patient with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), who once was widely described as "Patient Zero", accusing him of introducing HIV to the United States. This claim has since been proven incorrect.In March 1984, a study tracked Dugas, along with other gay and bisexual men, to indicate his role in a particular cluster of 40 AIDS cases in the United States. He was named "Patient O", with "O" standing for "Out-of-California". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaëtan Dugas has received more than 2,343,178 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Gaëtan Dugas is the 2,033rd most popular religious figure (down from 1,268th in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from Canada (down from 117th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Gaëtan Dugas ranks 2,033 out of 2,238Before him are Peter Shirayanagi, Karaindash, Frei Galvão, Theodore of Tarsus, Antonio Riberi, and Luigi Carlo Borromeo. After him are Thomas Kingo, Philippe Barbarin, Angelo Felici, Juan José Omella, Yeshe Tsogyal, and Juan Carlos Aramburu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Gaëtan Dugas ranks 215Before him are Yasuhiko Okudera, Francesco Graziani, Don Miguel Ruiz, Bernard Lacombe, Simon MacCorkindale, and Pat Cox. After him are Paul Reubens, Valeriy Pidluzhnyy, Frank Schwalba-Hoth, Gregg Henry, Udo Voigt, and Jorge Olguín. Among people deceased in 1984, Gaëtan Dugas ranks 124Before him are Fazıl Küçük, Valery Voronin, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Blagoje Marjanović, Alice Neel, and Hovhannes Shiraz. After him are John Marley, Niyazi, Louis Réard, Lola Anglada, Arkhip Lyulka, and Giuseppe Tucci.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Gaëtan Dugas ranks 228 out of 1,350Before him are Henry Clinton (1730), Agnes Martin (1912), Deborah Kara Unger (1966), Guy Laliberté (1959), Norm Macdonald (1959), and David Baszucki (1963). After him are Percy Faith (1908), Diana Krall (1964), Harry Crerar (1888), Mario Lemieux (1965), David Card (1956), and Kim Campbell (1947).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Canada

Among religious figures born in Canada, Gaëtan Dugas ranks 2Before him are Marc Ouellet (1944). After him are André Bessette (1845), Jacques Plante (1929), Jean-Claude Turcotte (1936), Gérald Lacroix (1957), Paul Grégoire (1911), Charles Scicluna (1959), Mike Bossy (1957), Charles Coughlin (1891), Thomas Christopher Collins (1947), and Gerald Emmett Carter (1912).