RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Oliver Plunkett

1625 - 1681

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Oliver Plunkett (or Oliver Plunket; Irish: Oilibhéar Pluincéid; 1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the Popish Plot. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oliver Plunkett has received more than 637,697 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Oliver Plunkett is the 2,679th most popular religious figure (down from 2,363rd in 2019), the 219th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 208th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Irish Religious Figure.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

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  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Oliver Plunkett ranks 2,679 out of 3,187Before him are Arlindo Gomes Furtado, Jean de Sponde, Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Justus of Jerusalem, Malcolm Ranjith, and Stephen Chow. After him are Uta Ranke-Heinemann, Abundius, Richard of Chichester, John Mark, Henry of Blois, and Matthew Parker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1625, Oliver Plunkett ranks 19Before him are Jean Domat, Pierre Nicole, Ferdinand Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Baden, Filippo Baldinucci, Samuel Morland, and Marie de Nemours.  Among people deceased in 1681, Oliver Plunkett ranks 17Before him are Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Nikolay Diletsky, Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz, Hermann Conring, and Agafya Grushetskaya. After him is Fatima Soltan.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Oliver Plunkett ranks 219 out of 549Before him are George Moore (1852), Tim Ahearne (1885), J. B. Bury (1861), William Thompson (1775), James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (1665), and Joe Kelly (1913). After him are Willoughby Hamilton (1864), Sean Kelly (1956), Liam Cosgrave (1920), John Philip Holland (1840), Ray McAnally (1926), and W. T. Cosgrave (1880).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Ireland

Among religious figures born in Ireland, Oliver Plunkett ranks 16Before him are Kevin of Glendalough (498), Adomnán (624), Violet Gibson (1876), Catald (700), Aidan of Lindisfarne (600), and Hugh O'Flaherty (1898). After him are Finnian of Clonard (470), Ciarán of Clonmacnoise (516), Seán Brady (1939), Geoffrey Keating (1569), and Desmond Connell (1926).