RELIGIOUS FIGURE

George Pell

1941 - 2023

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George Pell (8 June 1941 – 10 January 2023) was an Australian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as the inaugural prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy between 2014 and 2019, and was a member of the Council of Cardinal Advisers between 2013 and 2018. Ordained a priest in 1966 and bishop in 1987, he was made a cardinal in 2003. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Pell has received more than 2,716,603 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. George Pell is the 2,006th most popular religious figure (down from 1,730th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Australia (down from 84th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Australian Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.7M

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  • 52.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of George Pells by language

Over the past year George Pell has had the most page views in the with 128,941 views, followed by Italian (11,339), and Polish (7,919). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (99.16%), Irish (77.17%), and Tamil (41.50%)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, George Pell ranks 2,006 out of 3,187Before him are David Koresh, Federico Lombardi, Jean-Pierre Kutwa, Moriteru Ueshiba, Jacopo Sadoleto, and Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari. After him are Yeshe Tsogyal, Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, Alojs Andritzki, Willigis, José Policarpo, and Gianfranco Ravasi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, George Pell ranks 251Before him are Vitaly Solomin, Vladimir Lyakhov, Georges Heylens, Desmond Dekker, Anne Tyler, and George Clinton. After him are Roberto Calasso, Lynne Cheney, Sally Kirkland, Silvio Moser, Gregory Benford, and Ignazio Giunti. Among people deceased in 2023, George Pell ranks 273Before him are The Iron Sheik, Edgar Schein, Jerónimo Saavedra, Heinrich Messner, Gennady Zhidko, and Michel Deville. After him are Francisco J. Ayala, Duško Gojković, Paul Johnson, Raoul Servais, Terry Dischinger, and Veniamin Soldatenko.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, George Pell ranks 104 out of 1,143Before him are Edmund Barton (1849), Miranda Otto (1967), Bob Hawke (1929), Vernon Wells (1945), David Warren (1925), and Bob Hewitt (1940). After him are Julian McMahon (1968), Jack Crawford (1908), Natalie Imbruglia (1975), Samuel Alexander (1859), Peter Norman (1942), and John Pilger (1939).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Australia

Among religious figures born in Australia, George Pell ranks 3Before him are Truganini (1812), and Edward Cassidy (1924). After him are James Harrison (1936), Mary MacKillop (1842), Edward Clancy (1923), Norman Thomas Gilroy (1896), Peter Hollingworth (1935), and Mitchell Johnson (1981).