RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Lorenzo Ruiz

1600 - 1637

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Lorenzo Ruiz (Filipino: Lorenzo Ruiz ng Maynila; Chinese: 李樂倫; Spanish: Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila; November 28, 1594 – September 29, 1637), also called Saint Lorenzo of Manila, was a Filipino Catholic layman and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. A Chinese Filipino, he became his country's protomartyr after his execution in Japan by the Tokugawa shogunate during its persecution of Japanese Christians in the 17th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lorenzo Ruiz has received more than 878,460 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Lorenzo Ruiz is the 2,668th most popular religious figure (down from 2,402nd in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Philippines (down from 35th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Filipino Religious Figure.

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  • 880k

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  • 47.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Lorenzo Ruiz ranks 2,668 out of 3,187Before him are Arthur Roche, Swithun, Szilárd Bogdánffy, Seán Patrick O'Malley, Rose Philippine Duchesne, and John F. MacArthur. After him are Patrick Abercrombie, Frans van der Lugt, Rosario Livatino, Arlindo Gomes Furtado, Jean de Sponde, and Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1600, Lorenzo Ruiz ranks 25Before him are Lourenço Marques, Ivan Bolotnikov, Pyotr Beketov, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Ivan Moskvitin, and Pieter de Grebber.  Among people deceased in 1637, Lorenzo Ruiz ranks 14Before him are Robert Fludd, William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania, Péter Pázmány, Pierre Vernier, and Theodoor Rombouts.

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In Philippines

Among people born in Philippines, Lorenzo Ruiz ranks 39 out of 155Before him are Florencio Campomanes (1927), Carlos P. Garcia (1896), Luis Eduardo Aute (1943), Brenda Marshall (1915), Jaime Sin (1928), and Lou Diamond Phillips (1962). After him are Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero (1832), Brian Yuzna (1949), Noli de Castro (1949), Pedro Paterno (1857), Juan Ponce Enrile (1924), and Macario Sakay (1878).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Philippines

Among religious figures born in Philippines, Lorenzo Ruiz ranks 2Before him are Jaime Sin (1928). After him are Luis Antonio Tagle (1957), Gaudencio Rosales (1932), Wenceslao Padilla (1949), Jose Tomas Sanchez (1920), Orlando Quevedo (1939), Gregorio Aglipay (1860), Ricardo Vidal (1931), Rufino Santos (1908), Jose Advincula (1952), and Julio Rosales (1906).