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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

1919 - 1995

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Madalyn Murray O'Hair (née Mays; April 13, 1919 – September 29, 1995) was an American activist and Holocaust denier supporting atheism and separation of church and state. In 1963, she founded American Atheists and served as its president until 1986, after which her son Jon Garth Murray succeeded her. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Madalyn Murray O'Hair has received more than 4,874,632 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Madalyn Murray O'Hair is the 1,708th most popular religious figure (down from 1,193rd in 2019), the 3,579th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,352nd in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Religious Figure.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Madalyn Murray O'Hair ranks 1,708 out of 2,238. Before her are Isidore of Kiev, Jacopo Sadoleto, Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, Manuel Monteiro de Castro, Kassapa Buddha, and Gregory III of Constantinople. After her are Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Diogenes of Byzantium, Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, Huldah, Blind man of Bethsaida, and Teresa of the Andes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Madalyn Murray O'Hair ranks 122. Before her are Morteza Motahhari, Bernhard Wicki, Paul de Man, Artur Fischer, Mad Mike Hoare, and Abdirashid Shermarke. After her are G. E. M. Anscombe, Robert Stack, Doris Miller, Polina Gelman, Hermann Bondi, and Kathleen Freeman. Among people deceased in 1995, Madalyn Murray O'Hair ranks 116. Before her are Edith Pargeter, Georgy Beregovoy, Srinagarindra, Robert Monroe, Jerry Garcia, and Józef Maria Bocheński. After her are Anatoly Tarasov, Friz Freleng, Burl Ives, Giancarlo Baghetti, Josef Hügi, and Miguel Torga.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Madalyn Murray O'Hair ranks 3,579 out of 18,182. Before her are Judith Reisman (1935), Kevin Sorbo (1958), Emmett Till (1941), Bobby Seale (1936), Bruce Buck (1946), and Evelyn McHale (1923). After her are Larry Clark (1943), Adam Baldwin (1962), Hal Clement (1922), Joyce Meyer (1943), Kourtney Kardashian (1979), and Lorraine Gary (1937).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Madalyn Murray O'Hair ranks 24. Before her are William Levada (1936), Raymond Leo Burke (1948), Nathan Homer Knorr (1905), Samuel Wilson (1766), Frederick William Franz (1893), and Kateri Tekakwitha (1656). After her are Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930), Fulton J. Sheen (1895), Don Alden Adams (1925), Squanto (1585), Bill W. (1895), and Dwight L. Moody (1837).

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