1920 - 1951
Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.Lacks was the unwitting source of these cells from a tumor biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., in 1951. These cells were then cultured by George Otto Gey, who created the cell line known as HeLa, which is still used for medical research. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henrietta Lacks has received more than 6,761,147 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Henrietta Lacks is the 57th most popular celebrity (down from 50th in 2019), the 2,422nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,279th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Celebrity.
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Among celebrities, Henrietta Lacks ranks 57 out of 184. Before her are Christine Keeler, Joseph Meister, Daisy and Violet Hilton, María Capovilla, Paris Hilton, and Betsy Ross. After her are Kourtney Kardashian, Maria von Trapp, Jon Brower Minnoch, Madeleine Astor, Isabel Preysler, and Manuel Uribe.
1942 - 2017
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 51
1876 - 1940
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 52
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 53
1889 - 2006
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 54
1981 - Present
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 55
1752 - 1836
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 56
1920 - 1951
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 57
1979 - Present
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 58
1905 - 1987
HPI: 65.60
Rank: 59
1941 - 1983
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 60
1893 - 1940
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 61
1951 - Present
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 62
1965 - 2014
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 63
Among people born in 1920, Henrietta Lacks ranks 121. Before her are Delbert Mann, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, James Doohan, and Eva Dahlbeck. After her are Miguel Delibes, Meliton Kantaria, Heinz Kessler, Thomas Szasz, Stan Ockers, and Martine Carol. Among people deceased in 1951, Henrietta Lacks ranks 56. Before her are Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Ernst von Weizsäcker, Ali Sami Yen, François Georges-Picot, Tadeusz Borowski, and Géza Maróczy. After her are Warner Baxter, Robert Grant Aitken, Lincoln Ellsworth, Algernon Blackwood, Louis Jouvet, and Liaquat Ali Khan.
1920 - 2007
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 115
1920 - 1984
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 116
1920 - 2019
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 117
1920 - 2002
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 118
1920 - 2005
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 119
1920 - 2008
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 120
1920 - 1951
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 121
1920 - 2010
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 122
1920 - 1993
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 123
1920 - 2017
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 124
1920 - 2012
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 125
1920 - 1956
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 126
1920 - 1967
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 127
1875 - 1951
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 50
1882 - 1951
HPI: 66.57
Rank: 51
1886 - 1951
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 52
1870 - 1951
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 53
1922 - 1951
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 54
1870 - 1951
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 55
1920 - 1951
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 56
1889 - 1951
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 57
1864 - 1951
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 58
1880 - 1951
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 59
1869 - 1951
HPI: 65.23
Rank: 60
1887 - 1951
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 61
1895 - 1951
HPI: 65.12
Rank: 62
Among people born in United States, Henrietta Lacks ranks 2,422 out of 15,968. Before her are Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Rex Tillerson (1952), Janet Jackson (1966), Sugar Ray Leonard (1956), Coretta Scott King (1927), and Kristen Stewart (1990). After her are Warner Baxter (1889), Bruno Mars (1985), Robert Culp (1930), John Stockton (1962), Frances E. Allen (1932), and Georgina Spelvin (1936).
1918 - 1985
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 2,416
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 2,417
1966 - Present
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 2,418
1956 - Present
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 2,419
1927 - 2006
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 2,420
1990 - Present
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 2,421
1920 - 1951
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 2,422
1889 - 1951
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 2,423
1985 - Present
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 2,424
1930 - 2010
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 2,425
1962 - Present
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 2,426
1932 - 2020
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 2,427
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 2,428
Among celebrities born in United States, Henrietta Lacks ranks 23. Before her are Anna Nicole Smith (1967), Edie Sedgwick (1943), Roy Sullivan (1912), Lizzie Borden (1860), Paris Hilton (1981), and Betsy Ross (1752). After her are Kourtney Kardashian (1979), Jon Brower Minnoch (1941), Madeleine Astor (1893), Florence Owens Thompson (1903), Barbara Hutton (1912), and Evelyn McHale (1923).
1967 - 2007
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 17
1943 - 1971
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 18
1912 - 1983
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 19
1860 - 1927
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 20
1981 - Present
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 21
1752 - 1836
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 22
1920 - 1951
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 23
1979 - Present
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 24
1941 - 1983
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 25
1893 - 1940
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 26
1903 - 1983
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 27
1912 - 1979
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 28
1923 - 1947
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 29