RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Pino Puglisi

1937 - 1993

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Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpiːno puʎˈʎiːzi], Sicilian: [pʊɟˈɟiːsɪ]; 15 September 1937 – 15 September 1993) was a Roman Catholic priest in the rough Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio. He openly challenged the Sicilian Mafia who controlled the neighbourhood, and was killed by them on his 56th birthday. His life story has been retold in a book, Pino Puglisi, il prete che fece tremare la mafia con un sorriso (2013), and portrayed in a film, Come Into the Light (Italian original title Alla luce del sole) in 2005. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pino Puglisi has received more than 149,002 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Pino Puglisi is the 2,403rd most popular religious figure (down from 2,217th in 2019), the 3,297th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,141st in 2019) and the 487th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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  • 49.87

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Pino Puglisi ranks 2,403 out of 3,187. Before him are Paul Josef Cordes, Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro, Antonio Riberi, Stanislaus Papczyński, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, and Pertinax of Byzantium. After him are Serapion of Antioch, André Bessette, Gregorio Rosa Chávez, Francisco Coll Guitart, László Paskai, and Juan de Palafox y Mendoza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Pino Puglisi ranks 296. Before him are Jackie Collins, José Araquistáin, Jurek Becker, Mark Donohue, Anita Traversi, and Glen A. Larson. After him are Jeannot Szwarc, Irina Solovyova, Clodovil Hernandes, Sally Kellerman, Merle Haggard, and Jennifer Welles. Among people deceased in 1993, Pino Puglisi ranks 164. Before him are Bob Kiesel, Camargo Guarnieri, Giuseppe Occhialini, Fred Gwynne, J. R. D. Tata, and Robert Jacobsen. After him are Ihor Turchyn, Carlos Marcello, Cesar Chavez, Masuji Ibuse, Béla Sárosi, and Jiří Hájek.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pino Puglisi ranks 3,297 out of 5,161. Before him are Alois Riehl (1844), Gianluigi Donnarumma (1999), Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro (1948), Maurizio Costanzo (1938), Giuseppe Adami (1878), and Eleonora Giorgi (1953). After him are Rino Gaetano (1950), Girolamo Mei (1519), Titus Didius (-200), Francesco Tamagno (1850), Tullio Pinelli (1908), and Dorian Gray (1931).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Pino Puglisi ranks 487. Before him are Giovanni Coppa (1925), Benedict Menni (1841), Lorenzo Cybo de Mari (1450), Domenico Bartolucci (1917), Giacomo Biffi (1928), and Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro (1948). After him are Caterina Volpicelli (1839), Honorius of Canterbury (550), Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo (1925), Niccolò Albergati (null), Paolo Romeo (1938), and Angelo Mai (1782).

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