1500 - 1569
John of Ávila (Spanish: Juan de Ávila; 6 January 1499– 10 May 1569) was a Spanish priest, preacher, scholastic author, and religious mystic, who has been declared a saint and Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John of Ávila has received more than 172,703 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). John of Ávila is the 872nd most popular religious figure (down from 864th in 2019), the 349th most popular biography from Spain (up from 367th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Spanish Religious Figure.
John of Ávila was a Spanish theologian who wrote about the spiritual life. He is most famous for being the first person to write about the spiritual life in a systematic way.
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Among religious figures, John of Ávila ranks 872 out of 2,238. Before him are Killing of Peter Fechter, Agnes of Bohemia, Odilo of Cluny, Juan Diego, Abdullah ibn Muhammad, and Lucian of Antioch. After him are Basilides, Antipope Clement VIII, Sophronius of Jerusalem, Cyriacus, Jael, and Abiathar.
1944 - 1962
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 866
1211 - 1282
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 867
961 - 1049
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 868
1474 - 1548
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 869
600 - 615
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 870
240 - 312
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 871
1500 - 1569
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 872
117 - 140
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 873
1370 - 1447
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 874
560 - 638
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 875
300 - 303
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 876
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 877
1000 BC - 900 BC
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 878
Among people born in 1500, John of Ávila ranks 13. Before him are Wu Cheng'en, Lala Mustafa Pasha, Bartolomeo Eustachi, Hernando de Soto, Al-Mutawakkil III, and Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. After him are Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Younger, Reginald Pole, Afanasy Nikitin, Paris Bordone, Sinan Pasha, and Elizabeth Blount. Among people deceased in 1569, John of Ávila ranks 3. Before him are Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Louis, Prince of Condé. After him are Gracia Mendes Nasi, Maria Temryukovna, Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Gerolama Orsini, Aben Humeya, Mikołaj Rej, António Ferreira, Catherine Carey, and Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden.
1500 - 1582
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 7
1500 - 1580
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 8
1500 - 1574
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 9
1500 - 1542
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 10
1500 - 1543
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 11
1500 - 1540
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 12
1500 - 1569
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 13
1500 - 1453
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 14
1500 - 1558
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 15
1500 - 1475
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 16
1500 - 1570
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 17
1500 - 1553
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 18
1500 - 1539
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 19
1525 - 1569
HPI: 81.00
Rank: 1
1530 - 1569
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 2
1500 - 1569
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 3
1510 - 1569
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 4
1544 - 1569
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 5
1526 - 1569
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 6
1503 - 1569
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 7
1520 - 1569
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 8
1505 - 1569
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 9
1528 - 1569
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 10
1523 - 1569
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 11
1536 - 1569
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 12
Among people born in Spain, John of Ávila ranks 349 out of 2,932. Before him are Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1910), David Villa (1981), Pánfilo de Narváez (1478), Achila II (695), Martin I of Sicily (1374), and Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867). After him are Antipope Clement VIII (1370), Lola Flores (1923), Manolo Blahnik (1942), Alfonso V of León (994), Martín Alonso Pinzón (1441), and Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492).
1910 - 2000
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 343
1981 - Present
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 344
1478 - 1528
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 345
695 - 716
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 346
1374 - 1409
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 347
1867 - 1928
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 348
1500 - 1569
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 349
1370 - 1447
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 350
1923 - 1995
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 351
1942 - Present
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 352
994 - 1028
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 353
1441 - 1493
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 354
1492 - 1584
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 355
Among religious figures born in Spain, John of Ávila ranks 29. Before him are Francisco Álvarez Martínez (1925), Eduardo Martínez Somalo (1927), Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436), Isidore the Laborer (1080), Diego de Landa (1524), and Peter of Alcantara (1499). After him are Antipope Clement VIII (1370), Al-Qurtubi (1214), Eulalia of Barcelona (290), Priscillian (340), Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado (1643), and Hermenegild (564).
1925 - 2022
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 23
1927 - 2021
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 24
1436 - 1517
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 25
1080 - 1130
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 26
1524 - 1579
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 27
1499 - 1562
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 28
1500 - 1569
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 29
1370 - 1447
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 30
1214 - 1273
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 31
290 - 303
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 32
340 - 385
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 33
1643 - 1731
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 34
564 - 585
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 35