1607 - 1638
John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English dissenting minister in colonial New England whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that it was consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shalbee called Harvard Colledge." John Harvard was born in Southwark, England. A graduate of Emmanuel College of the University of Cambridge, he emigrated to New England in 1637. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Harvard has received more than 36,317 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). John Harvard is the 700th most popular religious figure (up from 946th in 2019), the 590th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,072nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Religious Figure.
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Among religious figures, John Harvard ranks 700 out of 2,238. Before him are Gertrude the Great, Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, Sa'id bin Zayd, Mahapajapati Gotami, Julia of Corsica, and Empress Meishō. After him are Silas, Martin de Porres, Mahākāśyapa, Lydia of Thyatira, Atiśa, and Cornelius the Centurion.
1256 - 1302
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 694
464 - 497
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 695
593 - 673
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 696
600 BC - Present
HPI: 63.46
Rank: 697
420 - 450
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 698
1624 - 1696
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 699
1607 - 1638
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 700
1 - 100
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 701
1579 - 1639
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 702
550 BC - 549 BC
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 703
100 - 100
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 704
982 - 1054
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 705
100 - 100
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 706
Among people born in 1607, John Harvard ranks 2. Before him is Michiel de Ruyter. After him are Madeleine de Scudéry, Jan Lievens, Anna Maria van Schurman, Zhu Yousong, Infante Carlos of Spain, Antoine Gombaud, Wenceslaus Hollar, Paul Gerhardt, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, and Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1638, John Harvard ranks 2. Before him is Cornelius Jansen. After him are Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg, François Leclerc du Tremblay, Ivan Gundulić, Johannes Althusius, Adriaen Brouwer, Cyril Lucaris, Amakusa Shirō, Peter Minuit, Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy, and Willem Blaeu.
1607 - 1676
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 1
1607 - 1638
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 2
1607 - 1701
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 3
1607 - 1674
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 4
1607 - 1678
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 5
1607 - 1646
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 6
1607 - 1632
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 7
1607 - 1684
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 8
1607 - 1677
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 9
1607 - 1676
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 10
1607 - 1665
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 11
1607 - 1611
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 12
1585 - 1638
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 1
1607 - 1638
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 2
1584 - 1638
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 3
1577 - 1638
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 4
1589 - 1638
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 5
1563 - 1638
HPI: 61.22
Rank: 6
1605 - 1638
HPI: 61.01
Rank: 7
1572 - 1638
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 8
1621 - 1638
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 9
1589 - 1638
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 10
1632 - 1638
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 11
1571 - 1638
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Harvard ranks 590 out of 7,765. Before him are Sean Bean (1959), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862), Denis Law (1940), A. J. Cronin (1896), and Ian Stewart (1938). After him are Aubrey Beardsley (1872), Peter Greenaway (1942), Philippa of Lancaster (1360), Dirk Bogarde (1921), Leslie Howard (1893), and Ramsay MacDonald (1866).
1959 - Present
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 584
1897 - 1967
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 585
1862 - 1938
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 586
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 587
1896 - 1981
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 588
1938 - 1985
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 589
1607 - 1638
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 590
1872 - 1898
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 591
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 592
1360 - 1415
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 593
1921 - 1999
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 594
1893 - 1943
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 595
1866 - 1937
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 596
Among religious figures born in United Kingdom, John Harvard ranks 13. Before him are John Wesley (1703), Saint Walpurga (710), John Knox (1514), William Laud (1573), Thomas Wolsey (1473), and William Tyndale (1494). After him are Pope Adrian IV (1100), John Henry Newman (1801), Willibrord (658), Charles Spurgeon (1834), Frederick Fleet (1887), and Saint Malachy (1094).
1703 - 1791
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 7
710 - 779
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 8
1514 - 1572
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 9
1573 - 1645
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 10
1473 - 1530
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 11
1494 - 1536
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 12
1607 - 1638
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 13
1100 - 1159
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 14
1801 - 1890
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 15
658 - 739
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 16
1834 - 1892
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 17
1887 - 1965
HPI: 61.22
Rank: 18
1094 - 1148
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 19