1789 - 1840
Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat, FMS (20 May 1789 – 6 June 1840) was a French Catholic religious born in Le Rosey, village of Marlhes, near St. Etienne (Loire), France. He was the founder of the Marist Brothers, a religious congregation of brothers in the Catholic Church devoted to Mary and dedicated to education. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcellin Champagnat has received more than 291,821 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Marcellin Champagnat is the 1,508th most popular religious figure (down from 1,273rd in 2019), the 2,546th most popular biography from France (down from 2,236th in 2019) and the 132nd most popular French Religious Figure.
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Among religious figures, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 1,508 out of 2,238. Before him are Angilbert, Dionigi Tettamanzi, Anatolius of Constantinople, Hōnen, Bernard Francis Law, and Lipit-Ishtar. After him are Meletius IV of Constantinople, Anthony of Kiev, Maurice Bavaud, Sobekemsaf II, Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, and Colette of Corbie.
740 - 814
HPI: 54.03
Rank: 1,502
1934 - 2017
HPI: 54.02
Rank: 1,503
301 - 458
HPI: 54.02
Rank: 1,504
1133 - 1212
HPI: 54.02
Rank: 1,505
1931 - 2017
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 1,506
1890 BC - Present
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 1,507
1789 - 1840
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 1,508
1871 - 1935
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 1,509
983 - 1073
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 1,510
1916 - 1941
HPI: 53.98
Rank: 1,511
1600 BC - 1600 BC
HPI: 53.96
Rank: 1,512
1952 - Present
HPI: 53.96
Rank: 1,513
1381 - 1447
HPI: 53.96
Rank: 1,514
Among people born in 1789, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 19. Before him are Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, Maria Szymanowska, Carl Gustav Carus, Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, John Martin, and Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, Charles Rivière-Hérard, William Cranch Bond, and Silvio Pellico. Among people deceased in 1840, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 24. Before him are Beau Brummell, Carl Ludvig Engel, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Pierre Dupont de l'Étang, and Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom. After him are Anne Lister, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, Dingane kaSenzangakhona, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Sidney Smith, and Karl Otfried Müller.
1789 - 1867
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 13
1789 - 1831
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 14
1789 - 1869
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 15
1789 - 1823
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 16
1789 - 1854
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 17
1789 - 1868
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 18
1789 - 1840
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 19
1789 - 1856
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 20
1789 - 1845
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 21
1789 - 1862
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 22
1789 - 1850
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 23
1789 - 1859
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 24
1789 - 1854
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 25
1778 - 1840
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 18
1778 - 1840
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 19
1772 - 1840
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 20
1796 - 1840
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 21
1765 - 1840
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 22
1768 - 1840
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 23
1789 - 1840
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 24
1791 - 1840
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 25
1746 - 1840
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 26
1795 - 1840
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 27
1750 - 1840
HPI: 52.59
Rank: 28
1764 - 1840
HPI: 51.79
Rank: 29
1797 - 1840
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 30
Among people born in France, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 2,546 out of 6,011. Before him are Wan Hu (1510), Ernest Duchesne (1874), Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825), Séverine (1948), Jacques Deray (1929), and Léon Boëllmann (1862). After him are Elisabeth of Lorraine (1574), Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697), Joseph Joffo (1931), Odo of Bayeux (1036), Jean-Étienne Championnet (1762), and Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823).
1510 - 1500
HPI: 54.05
Rank: 2,540
1874 - 1912
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 2,541
1825 - 1891
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 2,542
1948 - Present
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 2,543
1929 - 2003
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 2,544
1862 - 1897
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 2,545
1789 - 1840
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 2,546
1574 - 1635
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 2,547
1697 - 1782
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 2,548
1931 - 2018
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 2,549
1036 - 1097
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 2,550
1762 - 1800
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 2,551
1823 - 1903
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 2,552
Among religious figures born in France, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 132. Before him are Albert Vanhoye (1923), Jacques de Vitry (1170), François de la Chaise (1624), Leodegar (616), Jacques Hamel (1930), and Julie Billiart (1751). After him are Colette of Corbie (1381), Gershom ben Judah (960), Charles Lavigerie (1825), Guillaume Dubois (1656), Fernando Ocáriz Braña (1944), and Alberic of Cîteaux (1001).
1923 - 2021
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 126
1170 - 1240
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 127
1624 - 1709
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 128
616 - 679
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 129
1930 - 2016
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 130
1751 - 1816
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 131
1789 - 1840
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 132
1381 - 1447
HPI: 53.96
Rank: 133
960 - 1028
HPI: 53.82
Rank: 134
1825 - 1892
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 135
1656 - 1723
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 136
1944 - Present
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 137
1001 - 1109
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 138