1936 - Today
Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; Spanish: Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III, who reigned in the 8th century. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as a young man Bergoglio worked for a time as a bouncer and a janitor before getting training as a chemist, and working as a technician in a food science laboratory. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pope Francis has received more than 18,813,426 page views. His biography is available in 153 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 152 in 2019). Pope Francis is the 9th most popular religious figure (down from 8th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Argentina and the most popular Argentinean Religious Figure.
Pope Francis is most famous for being the first non-European pope in over 1,200 years. He is also famous for his simple lifestyle and his focus on social justice and environmentalism.
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Among religious figures, Pope Francis ranks 9 out of 2,272. Before him are Martin Luther, Moses, Abraham, Mary, mother of Jesus, Saint Peter, and Paul the Apostle. After him are John the Baptist, Zoroaster, Pope John Paul II, Jacob, Saint George, and Francis of Assisi.
1483 - 1546
HPI: 94.31
Rank: 3
1393 BC - 1273 BC
HPI: 94.11
Rank: 4
1813 BC - 1638 BC
HPI: 93.68
Rank: 5
100 BC - 100
HPI: 93.21
Rank: 6
1 BC - 67
HPI: 92.98
Rank: 7
5 - 66
HPI: 92.16
Rank: 8
1936 - Present
HPI: 91.89
Rank: 9
20 BC - 31
HPI: 90.30
Rank: 10
2000 BC - 2000 BC
HPI: 89.80
Rank: 11
1920 - 2005
HPI: 89.13
Rank: 12
1653 BC - 1506 BC
HPI: 89.04
Rank: 13
280 - 303
HPI: 88.41
Rank: 14
1182 - 1226
HPI: 88.40
Rank: 15
Among people born in 1936, Pope Francis ranks 1. After him are Silvio Berlusconi, Václav Havel, Yves Saint Laurent, Robert Redford, Sepp Blatter, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ken Loach, Andrei Chikatilo, Valery Legasov, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Amancio Ortega.
1936 - Present
HPI: 91.89
Rank: 1
1936 - Present
HPI: 82.89
Rank: 2
1936 - 2011
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 3
1936 - 2008
HPI: 81.47
Rank: 4
1936 - Present
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 5
1936 - Present
HPI: 79.73
Rank: 6
1936 - Present
HPI: 79.26
Rank: 7
1936 - Present
HPI: 78.11
Rank: 8
1936 - 1994
HPI: 78.03
Rank: 9
1936 - 1988
HPI: 77.76
Rank: 10
1936 - 2019
HPI: 77.69
Rank: 11
1936 - Present
HPI: 77.59
Rank: 12
Among people born in Argentina, Pope Francis ranks 2 out of 900. Before him are Che Guevara (1928). After him are Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926), Eva Perón (1919), Diego Maradona (1960), Juan Perón (1895), Juan Manuel Fangio (1911), Astor Piazzolla (1921), Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931), Martha Argerich (1941), and Jorge Rafael Videla (1925).
1928 - 1967
HPI: 93.41
Rank: 1
1936 - Present
HPI: 91.89
Rank: 2
1899 - 1986
HPI: 83.68
Rank: 3
1926 - 2014
HPI: 81.99
Rank: 4
1919 - 1952
HPI: 81.64
Rank: 5
1960 - 2020
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 6
1895 - 1974
HPI: 79.67
Rank: 7
1911 - 1995
HPI: 79.37
Rank: 8
1921 - 1992
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 9
1931 - Present
HPI: 76.52
Rank: 10
1941 - Present
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 11
1925 - 2013
HPI: 76.41
Rank: 12
Among religious figures born in Argentina, Pope Francis ranks 1. After him are Leonardo Sandri (1943), Jorge María Mejía (1923), Mario Aurelio Poli (1947), Antonio Caggiano (1889), Juan Carlos Aramburu (1912), Estanislao Esteban Karlic (1926), and Luis Héctor Villalba (1934).
1936 - Present
HPI: 91.89
Rank: 1
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 2
1923 - 2014
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 3
1947 - Present
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 4
1889 - 1979
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 5
1912 - 2004
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 6
1926 - Present
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 7
1934 - Present
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 8