1909 - 1999
Hélder Pessoa Câmara (7 February 1909 – 27 August 1999) was a Brazilian Catholic archbishop. A self-identified socialist, he was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, serving from 1964 to 1985, during the military dictatorship in Brazil. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hélder Câmara has received more than 333,749 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Hélder Câmara is the 829th most popular religious figure (down from 730th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 55th in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Religious Figure.
Hélder Câmara was a Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and theologian who was also a liberation theologian. He is most famous for his work in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, where he was a parish priest.
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Among religious figures, Hélder Câmara ranks 829 out of 2,238. Before him are Antipope Dioscorus, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Apollinaris of Ravenna, Romano Guardini, Malik al-Ashtar, and Jean Mabillon. After him are Sen no Rikyū, Conrad Schumann, Antipope Gregory VIII, Eugenia of Rome, Fatimah bint Asad, and Ebussuud Efendi.
500 - 530
HPI: 61.01
Rank: 823
1659 - 1719
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 824
101 - 75
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 825
1885 - 1968
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 826
585 - 658
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 827
1632 - 1707
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 828
1909 - 1999
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 829
1522 - 1591
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 830
1942 - 1998
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 831
1100 - 1137
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 832
180 - 258
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 833
555 - 625
HPI: 60.91
Rank: 834
1490 - 1574
HPI: 60.91
Rank: 835
Among people born in 1909, Hélder Câmara ranks 38. Before him are Jessica Tandy, Aleksandar Ranković, Leo Fender, Stanislaw Ulam, Ernst vom Rath, and Matt Busby. After him are László Rajk, Oldřich Nejedlý, Princess Ileana of Romania, Rollo May, Rudolf Brandt, and Norberto Bobbio. Among people deceased in 1999, Hélder Câmara ranks 32. Before him are Sarah Knauss, Trygve Haavelmo, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Julius Nyerere, Anatoliy Solovianenko, and Mary Ainsworth. After him are Hermine Braunsteiner, Fred Trump, Iris Murdoch, Gerhard Herzberg, Benjamin Bloom, and Henry Way Kendall.
1909 - 1994
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 32
1909 - 1983
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 33
1909 - 1991
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 34
1909 - 1984
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 35
1909 - 1938
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 36
1909 - 1994
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 37
1909 - 1999
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 38
1909 - 1949
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 39
1909 - 1990
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 40
1909 - 1991
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 41
1909 - 1994
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 42
1909 - 1948
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 43
1909 - 2004
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 44
1880 - 1999
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 26
1911 - 1999
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 27
1914 - 1999
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 28
1922 - 1999
HPI: 62.14
Rank: 29
1932 - 1999
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 30
1913 - 1999
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 31
1909 - 1999
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 32
1919 - 1999
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 33
1905 - 1999
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 34
1919 - 1999
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 35
1904 - 1999
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 36
1913 - 1999
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 37
1926 - 1999
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 38
Among people born in Brazil, Hélder Câmara ranks 64 out of 2,067. Before him are Ademir de Menezes (1922), Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (1846), Zumbi (1655), Deodoro da Fonseca (1827), Zizinho (1921), and José Altafini (1938). After him are Nelson Freire (1944), Gérson (1941), Astrud Gilberto (1940), Hebe Camargo (1929), Carlos Ghosn (1954), and Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco (1897).
1922 - 1996
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 58
1846 - 1921
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 59
1655 - 1695
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 60
1827 - 1892
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 61
1921 - 2002
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 62
1938 - Present
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 63
1909 - 1999
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 64
1944 - 2021
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 65
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 66
1940 - 2023
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 67
1929 - 2012
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 68
1954 - Present
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 69
1897 - 1967
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 70
Among religious figures born in Brazil, Hélder Câmara ranks 1. After him are José Freire Falcão (1925), Leonardo Boff (1938), Cláudio Hummes (1934), João Braz de Aviz (1947), Eusébio Scheid (1932), Frei Galvão (1739), Aloísio Lorscheider (1924), Paulo Evaristo Arns (1921), Irmã Dulce (1914), Odilo Scherer (1949), and Geraldo Majella Agnelo (1933).
1909 - 1999
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 1
1925 - 2021
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 2
1938 - Present
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 3
1934 - 2022
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 4
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 5
1932 - 2021
HPI: 50.36
Rank: 6
1739 - 1822
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 7
1924 - 2007
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 8
1921 - 2016
HPI: 49.40
Rank: 9
1914 - 1992
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 10
1949 - Present
HPI: 48.36
Rank: 11
1933 - 2023
HPI: 48.13
Rank: 12