RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Marie Laveau

1801 - 1881

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Marie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801 – June 15, 1881) was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, herbalist and midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II (1827 – c. 1862), also practiced rootwork, conjure, Native American and African spiritualism as well as Louisiana Voodoo and traditional Roman Catholicism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Laveau has received more than 3,699,983 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Marie Laveau is the 1,353rd most popular religious figure (down from 1,181st in 2019), the 2,467th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,132nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Religious Figure.

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  • 56.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Marie Laveau ranks 1,353 out of 3,187. Before her are Hermann Gmeiner, Umamah bint Zainab, Ivo of Chartres, Ludger, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, and Sobekemsaf II. After her are Emerentiana, Marina the Monk, José Sánchez del Río, Wolfgang of Regensburg, Peter Nolasco, and Joseph Freinademetz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Marie Laveau ranks 30. Before her are William H. Seward, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Zénaïde Bonaparte, Albert Lortzing, Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza, and David Farragut. After her are Karl Baedeker, Justo José de Urquiza, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Henri Labrouste, Johann Nestroy, and Julius Plücker. Among people deceased in 1881, Marie Laveau ranks 32. Before her are Archduchess Clementina of Austria, Sophia Perovskaya, Maria Domenica Mazzarello, Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Joseph Škoda, and Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis. After her are Princess Caroline of Denmark, Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Daniele Comboni, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, Nikolai Kibalchich, and Duke Alexander of Württemberg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marie Laveau ranks 2,467 out of 20,380. Before her are Chris Wallace (1947), Charles Durning (1923), Debra Winger (1955), Alvin Plantinga (1932), Jane Jacobs (1916), and Richie Sambora (1959). After her are Robert Benton (1932), Randolph Scott (1898), Gerard Damiano (1928), Sundance Kid (1867), Mimi Rogers (1956), and Joseph Stilwell (1883).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Marie Laveau ranks 15. Before her are Pat Garrett (1850), Maria Branyas (1907), Henry Molaison (1926), Lillian Asplund (1906), Paul Marcinkus (1922), and William M. Branham (1909). After her are Raymond Leo Burke (1948), Angelo Dundee (1921), Ellen Church (1904), William Levada (1936), Frederick William Franz (1893), and Samuel Wilson (1766).

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