RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Joseph Smith

1805 - 1844

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Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smith attracted tens of thousands of followers by the time of his death fourteen years later. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Smith has received more than 10,411,778 page views. His biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 90 in 2019). Joseph Smith is the 60th most popular religious figure (up from 445th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from United States (up from 406th in 2019) and the most popular American Religious Figure.

Joseph Smith is most famous for founding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Memorability Metrics

  • 10M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 79.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 94

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Joseph Smith ranks 60 out of 3,187. Before him are Pope Clement VII, Pope Gregory I, Ignatius of Loyola, James, son of Zebedee, Saint Lucy, and Luke the Evangelist. After him are Pope Pius XII, Judas Iscariot, Saint Valentine, Anthony of Padua, Jerome, and Hildegard of Bingen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Joseph Smith ranks 2. Before him is Hans Christian Andersen. After him are Giuseppe Mazzini, Alexis de Tocqueville, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Ferdinand de Lesseps, William Rowan Hamilton, Fanny Mendelssohn, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, and Maria Anna of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1844, Joseph Smith ranks 2. Before him is John Dalton. After him are Charles XIV John of Sweden, Joseph Bonaparte, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Ivan Krylov, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Charles Nodier, and Flora Tristan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Smith ranks 54 out of 20,380. Before him are Maria Callas (1923), Bernie Sanders (1941), Cher (1946), Clint Eastwood (1930), Wallis Simpson (1896), and Al Gore (1948). After him are Andy Warhol (1928), Howard Hughes (1905), Robert Frost (1874), Henry Ford (1863), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890), and John Wilkes Booth (1838).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Joseph Smith ranks 1. After him are Brigham Young (1801), Charles Taze Russell (1852), Billy Graham (1918), John Mott (1865), William Miller (1782), Rose Kennedy (1890), Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869), Pat Garrett (1850), Maria Branyas (1907), Henry Molaison (1926), and Lillian Asplund (1906).

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