1876 - 1940
Joseph Meister (21 February 1876 – 24 June 1940) was the first person to be inoculated against rabies by Louis Pasteur, and likely the first person to be successfully treated for the infection, which has a >99% fatality rate once symptoms set in. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Meister has received more than 160,108 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Joseph Meister is the 51st most popular celebrity (up from 52nd in 2019), the 1,849th most popular biography from France (up from 1,934th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Celebrity.
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Among celebrities, Joseph Meister ranks 51 out of 181. Before him are Emilie Louise Flöge, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Elizabeth Stride, María Capovilla, Alice Keppel, and Dan Inosanto. After him are Florence Owens Thompson, Sultan Kösen, Victor Kugler, Isabel Preysler, Annie Oakley, and Barbara Hutton.
1874 - 1952
HPI: 58.10
Rank: 45
1939 - 2015
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 46
1843 - 1888
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 47
1889 - 2006
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 48
1868 - 1947
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 49
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 50
1876 - 1940
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 51
1903 - 1983
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 52
1982 - Present
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 53
1900 - 1981
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 54
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 55
1860 - 1926
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 56
1912 - 1979
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 57
Among people born in 1876, Joseph Meister ranks 56. Before him are Tomáš Baťa, Anna de Noailles, Fevzi Çakmak, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Walter Sydney Adams. After him are Julio González, Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria, Hideyo Noguchi, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Tatyana Afanasyeva, and Ettore Bastico. Among people deceased in 1940, Joseph Meister ranks 51. Before him are Édouard Claparède, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, Jesse Livermore, and Lewis Hine. After him are Paul Nizan, Anton Korošec, Arthur Zimmermann, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Alfred Loisy, and Anton Hansen Tammsaare.
1876 - 1932
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 50
1876 - 1933
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 51
1876 - 1950
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 52
1876 - 1948
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 53
1876 - 1923
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 54
1876 - 1956
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 55
1876 - 1940
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 56
1876 - 1942
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 57
1876 - 1961
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 58
1876 - 1928
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 59
1876 - 1938
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 60
1876 - 1964
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 61
1876 - 1972
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 62
1873 - 1940
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 45
1906 - 1940
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 46
1888 - 1940
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 47
1858 - 1940
HPI: 57.27
Rank: 48
1877 - 1940
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 49
1874 - 1940
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 50
1876 - 1940
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 51
1905 - 1940
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 52
1872 - 1940
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 53
1864 - 1940
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 54
1853 - 1940
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 55
1857 - 1940
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 56
1878 - 1940
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 57
Among people born in France, Joseph Meister ranks 1,849 out of 6,011. Before him are Étienne Méhul (1763), Charles de Bourbon (1523), Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre (1343), John III, Duke of Bavaria (1374), Jacques Mesrine (1936), and Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon (1693). After him are Antoine Gombaud (1607), Francis Veber (1937), Louis Durey (1888), Aymon, Count of Savoy (1291), Georges Guynemer (1894), and Warda Al-Jazairia (1939).
1763 - 1817
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 1,843
1523 - 1590
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 1,844
1343 - 1373
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 1,845
1374 - 1425
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 1,846
1936 - 1979
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 1,847
1693 - 1775
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 1,848
1876 - 1940
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 1,849
1607 - 1684
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 1,850
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 1,851
1888 - 1979
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 1,852
1291 - 1343
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 1,853
1894 - 1917
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 1,854
1939 - 2012
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 1,855
Among celebrities born in France, Joseph Meister ranks 6. Before him are Jeanne Calment (1875), Philippe Petit (1949), Marie Duplessis (1824), Blanche Monnier (1849), and Jean-Marie Loret (1918). After him are Denise Perrier (1935), Michel Lotito (1950), Sébastien Foucan (1974), Iris Mittenaere (1993), and Alexandra Rosenfeld (1986).
1875 - 1997
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 1
1949 - Present
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 2
1824 - 1847
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 3
1849 - 1913
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 4
1918 - 1985
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 5
1876 - 1940
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 6
1935 - Present
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 7
1950 - 2007
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 8
1974 - Present
HPI: 39.42
Rank: 9
1993 - Present
HPI: 36.11
Rank: 10
1986 - Present
HPI: 28.50
Rank: 11