RELIGIOUS FIGURE

John T. Scopes

1900 - 1970

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John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970) was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John T. Scopes has received more than 650,882 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). John T. Scopes is the 2,941st most popular religious figure (down from 2,620th in 2019), the 10,006th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,148th in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 650k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, John T. Scopes ranks 2,941 out of 3,187. Before him are Birinus, Hilarion Kapral, Sajida al-Rishawi, Jean-Marc Aveline, Basil Hume, and Maturino Blanchet. After him are Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, Bruno Forte, John Ogilvie, Ini, Paul Cremona, and Dan Osman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, John T. Scopes ranks 294. Before him are Roland Penrose, Willie Brown, Alfredo Porzio, Panagiotis Pavlidis, Nikolay Okhlopkov, and Arvo Haavisto. After him are René Lorain, Håkan Malmrot, Gladys Egan, Anni Holdmann, Arnold Orville Beckman, and Antoni Zygmund. Among people deceased in 1970, John T. Scopes ranks 241. Before him are A. H. M. Jones, Don Finlay, Adolf Wiklund, Jun'ichi Kōuchi, Lillian Board, and Maurice Stokes. After him are Laura Knight, William Hopper, Keen Johnson, Teofilo Spasojević, Charles Olson, and Feroz Khan Noon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John T. Scopes ranks 10,006 out of 20,380. Before him are John Lawrence LeConte (1825), Bob Hayes (1942), Nicholle Tom (1978), Gwynne Shotwell (1963), Tony Kushner (1956), and Robert Elswit (1950). After him are Juli Ashton (1969), Samantha Smith (1969), Tony Martin (1913), Gustav Hasford (1947), Michael Pitt (1981), and Kevin Dobson (1943).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, John T. Scopes ranks 80. Before him are Wovoka (1856), William H. Keeler (1931), Alvin Sargent (1927), Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840), John Carroll (1735), and Avery Dulles (1918). After him are Dan Osman (1963), Daniel DiNardo (1949), Gintaras Grušas (1961), Joseph F. Smith (1838), Alphonse Lacroix (1897), and Blanche Barton (1961).

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