RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Julia Pastrana

1834 - 1860

Photo of Julia Pastrana

Icon of person Julia Pastrana

Julia Pastrana (August 1834 – 25 March 1860) was a performer and singer during the 19th century who had hypertrichosis. Pastrana, an indigenous woman from Mexico, was born in 1834, somewhere in the state of Sinaloa. She was born with a genetic condition, hypertrichosis terminalis (or generalized hypertrichosis lanuginosa); her face and body were covered with straight black hair. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julia Pastrana has received more than 914,603 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Julia Pastrana is the 863rd most popular religious figure (up from 988th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 60th in 2019) and the most popular Mexican Religious Figure.

Julia Pastrana is most famous for being the first known person with a condition called hypertrichosis, which is an overgrowth of hair on the face and body. She was born in Mexico in 1834 and died in 1860.

Memorability Metrics

  • 910k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Julia Pastrana ranks 863 out of 3,187. Before her are Jean-Louis Tauran, Antipope John XVI, Louise de Marillac, Saturnin, Saint Emeric of Hungary, and Basil Fool for Christ. After her are Al-Bayhaqi, Peter of Verona, Mata Amritanandamayi, Lawrence of Brindisi, Mikao Usui, and Sai Baba of Shirdi.

Most Popular Religious Figures in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Julia Pastrana ranks 13. Before her are William Morris, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Léon Walras, August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, and Jan Neruda. After her are Johann Philipp Reis, Norodom of Cambodia, Vasily Perov, Aleksis Kivi, Charles Spurgeon, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Among people deceased in 1860, Julia Pastrana ranks 10. Before her are Jérôme Bonaparte, Alexandra Feodorovna, Miloš Obrenović, Charles Goodyear, János Bolyai, and Stéphanie de Beauharnais. After her are Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, István Széchenyi, William Walker, Ang Duong, and James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie.

Others Born in 1834

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1860

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Julia Pastrana ranks 36 out of 729. Before her are Álvaro Obregón (1880), Alejandro González Iñárritu (1963), Thomas Mayne Reid (1818), Luis Barragán (1902), Plutarco Elías Calles (1877), and Venustiano Carranza (1859). After her are Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal (603), Mario J. Molina (1943), Pedro Armendáriz (1912), María Félix (1914), Juan Diego (1474), and Linda Christian (1923).

Others born in Mexico

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Mexico

Among religious figures born in Mexico, Julia Pastrana ranks 1. After her are Juan Diego (1474), José Sánchez del Río (1913), Marcial Maciel (1920), Tlacaelel (1397), Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (1933), Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1926), Bernard Francis Law (1931), Miguel Pro (1891), Javier Lozano Barragán (1933), Norberto Rivera Carrera (1942), and Francisco Robles Ortega (1949).

Mexican born Religious Figures

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous