1656 - 1680
Kateri Tekakwitha (pronounced [ˈɡaderi deɡaˈɡwita] in Mohawk), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine, and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Catholic saint and virgin who was an Algonquin–Mohawk. Born in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, in present-day New York State, she contracted smallpox in an epidemic; her family died and her face was scarred. She converted to Catholicism at age nineteen. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kateri Tekakwitha has received more than 1,376,684 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Kateri Tekakwitha is the 1,700th most popular religious figure (down from 1,517th in 2019), the 3,555th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,525th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Religious Figure.
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Among religious figures, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 1,700 out of 2,238. Before her are Adolf Bertram, Samuel Wilson, Gjon Buzuku, Benjamin I of Constantinople, Frederick William Franz, and Theodore Romzha. After her are Sebastiano Baggio, Isidore of Kiev, Jacopo Sadoleto, Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, Manuel Monteiro de Castro, and Kassapa Buddha.
1859 - 1945
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 1,694
1766 - 1854
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 1,695
1499 - 1577
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 1,696
1871 - 1946
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 1,697
1893 - 1992
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 1,698
1911 - 1947
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 1,699
1656 - 1680
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 1,700
1913 - 1993
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 1,701
1385 - 1463
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 1,702
1477 - 1547
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 1,703
1310 - 1367
HPI: 52.46
Rank: 1,704
1938 - Present
HPI: 52.45
Rank: 1,705
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 1,706
Among people born in 1656, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 11. Before her are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas de Largillière, Robert de Cotte, Guillaume Dubois, and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer. After her are Ferdinand de Marsin, François Le Fort, and Guru Har Krishan. Among people deceased in 1680, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 29. Before her are Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Peter Lely, and Frans Post. After her are Marco Uccellini, Symeon of Polotsk, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp, Yun Hyu, and Wang Shimin.
1656 - 1708
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 5
1656 - 1721
HPI: 59.03
Rank: 6
1656 - 1746
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 7
1656 - 1735
HPI: 53.92
Rank: 8
1656 - 1723
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 9
1656 - 1746
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 10
1656 - 1680
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 11
1656 - 1706
HPI: 51.61
Rank: 12
1656 - 1699
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 13
1656 - 1664
HPI: 49.71
Rank: 14
1620 - 1680
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 23
1619 - 1680
HPI: 54.61
Rank: 24
1647 - 1680
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 25
1614 - 1680
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 26
1618 - 1680
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 27
1612 - 1680
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 28
1656 - 1680
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 29
1603 - 1680
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 30
1629 - 1680
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 31
1609 - 1680
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 32
1630 - 1680
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 33
1617 - 1680
HPI: 48.63
Rank: 34
1592 - 1680
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 35
Among people born in United States, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 3,555 out of 18,182. Before her are Paul Gleason (1939), Brian Herbert (1947), Grote Reber (1911), Bernie Mac (1957), Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977), and Frederick William Franz (1893). After her are Jean Peters (1926), William Baumol (1922), Ahmad Jamal (1930), Christopher Meloni (1961), Marsha Hunt (1917), and Lou Henry Hoover (1874).
1939 - 2006
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 3,549
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 3,550
1911 - 2002
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 3,551
1957 - 2008
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 3,552
1977 - Present
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 3,553
1893 - 1992
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 3,554
1656 - 1680
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 3,555
1926 - 2000
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 3,556
1922 - 2017
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 3,557
1930 - 2023
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 3,558
1961 - Present
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 3,559
1917 - 2022
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 3,560
1874 - 1944
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 3,561
Among religious figures born in United States, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 23. Before her are David Wilkerson (1931), William Levada (1936), Raymond Leo Burke (1948), Nathan Homer Knorr (1905), Samuel Wilson (1766), and Frederick William Franz (1893). After her are Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919), Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930), Fulton J. Sheen (1895), Don Alden Adams (1925), Squanto (1585), and Bill W. (1895).
1931 - 2011
HPI: 53.75
Rank: 17
1936 - 2019
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 18
1948 - Present
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 19
1905 - 1977
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 20
1766 - 1854
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 21
1893 - 1992
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 22
1656 - 1680
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 23
1919 - 1995
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 24
1930 - Present
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 25
1895 - 1979
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 26
1925 - 2019
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 27
1585 - 1622
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 28
1895 - 1971
HPI: 51.61
Rank: 29