1857 - 1939
Pope Pius XI (Italian: Pio XI), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (Italian: [amˈbrɔ:dʒo daˈmja:no aˈkille ˈratti]; 31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), was the Bishop of Rome and supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to 10 February 1939. He also became the first sovereign of the Vatican City State upon its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929. He remained head of the Catholic Church until his death in February 1939. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pope Pius XI has received more than 1,737,878 page views. His biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Pope Pius XI is the 66th most popular religious figure (down from 60th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Italy (up from 74th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Religious Figure.
Pope Pius XI is most famous for his encyclical of 1931, "Quadragesimo Anno," which called for a new social order based on the principle of solidarity.
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Among religious figures, Pope Pius XI ranks 66 out of 2,238. Before him are Benedict of Nursia, Abu Hanifa, Hildegard of Bingen, Pope Alexander VI, Thomas the Apostle, and Daniel. After him are Saint Valentine, John Chrysostom, Pope Sylvester I, Muhammad al-Bukhari, Pope Gregory XIII, and Pope Urban II.
480 - 543
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 60
698 - 767
HPI: 78.82
Rank: 61
1098 - 1179
HPI: 78.69
Rank: 62
1431 - 1503
HPI: 78.65
Rank: 63
1 - 72
HPI: 78.63
Rank: 64
690 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 78.60
Rank: 65
1857 - 1939
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 66
226 - 273
HPI: 78.54
Rank: 67
349 - 407
HPI: 78.53
Rank: 68
300 - 335
HPI: 78.52
Rank: 69
810 - 870
HPI: 78.45
Rank: 70
1502 - 1585
HPI: 78.39
Rank: 71
1042 - 1099
HPI: 78.26
Rank: 72
Among people born in 1857, Pope Pius XI ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand de Saussure, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Heinrich Hertz, Clara Zetkin, Joseph Conrad, Edward Elgar, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Henrik Pontoppidan, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and William Howard Taft. Among people deceased in 1939, Pope Pius XI ranks 2. Before him is Sigmund Freud. After him are Alphonse Mucha, Howard Carter, James Naismith, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Roth, W. B. Yeats, Eugen Bleuler, Werner von Fritsch, Edward Sapir, and Anton Makarenko.
1857 - 1939
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 1
1857 - 1913
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 2
1857 - 1941
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 3
1857 - 1894
HPI: 77.14
Rank: 4
1857 - 1933
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 5
1857 - 1924
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 6
1857 - 1934
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 7
1857 - 1919
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 8
1857 - 1944
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 9
1857 - 1943
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 10
1857 - 1935
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 11
1857 - 1930
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 12
1856 - 1939
HPI: 89.62
Rank: 1
1857 - 1939
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 2
1860 - 1939
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 3
1874 - 1939
HPI: 71.79
Rank: 4
1861 - 1939
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 5
1869 - 1939
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 6
1894 - 1939
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 7
1865 - 1939
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 8
1857 - 1939
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 9
1880 - 1939
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 10
1884 - 1939
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 11
1888 - 1939
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 12
Among people born in Italy, Pope Pius XI ranks 69 out of 4,668. Before him are Vespasian (9), Antonio Stradivari (1644), Benedict of Nursia (480), Luciano Pavarotti (1935), Vitruvius (-75), and Giacomo Casanova (1725). After him are Saint Valentine (226), Pope Sylvester I (300), Amedeo Modigliani (1884), Pope Gregory XIII (1502), Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194), and Livy (-59).
9 - 79
HPI: 78.98
Rank: 63
1644 - 1737
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 64
480 - 543
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 65
1935 - 2007
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 66
75 BC - 15 BC
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 67
1725 - 1798
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 68
1857 - 1939
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 69
226 - 273
HPI: 78.54
Rank: 70
300 - 335
HPI: 78.52
Rank: 71
1884 - 1920
HPI: 78.41
Rank: 72
1502 - 1585
HPI: 78.39
Rank: 73
1194 - 1250
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 74
59 BC - 17
HPI: 78.27
Rank: 75
Among religious figures born in Italy, Pope Pius XI ranks 9. Before him are Pope John Paul I (1912), Pope John XXIII (1881), Pope Gregory I (540), Pope Pius XII (1876), Pope Clement VII (1478), and Benedict of Nursia (480). After him are Saint Valentine (226), Pope Sylvester I (300), Pope Gregory XIII (1502), Pope Julius II (1443), Pope Gregory VII (1020), and Pope Pius IX (1792).
1912 - 1978
HPI: 80.45
Rank: 3
1881 - 1963
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 4
540 - 604
HPI: 79.59
Rank: 5
1876 - 1958
HPI: 79.51
Rank: 6
1478 - 1534
HPI: 79.12
Rank: 7
480 - 543
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 8
1857 - 1939
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 9
226 - 273
HPI: 78.54
Rank: 10
300 - 335
HPI: 78.52
Rank: 11
1502 - 1585
HPI: 78.39
Rank: 12
1443 - 1513
HPI: 78.25
Rank: 13
1020 - 1085
HPI: 78.12
Rank: 14
1792 - 1878
HPI: 78.08
Rank: 15