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Ruth Pfau

1929 - 2017

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Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau, FCM (9 September 1929 – 10 August 2017) was a German–Pakistani Catholic Christian religious sister and physician who was a member of the "Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary". She emigrated from Germany in 1961 and devoted more than 55 years of her life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruth Pfau has received more than 917,416 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Ruth Pfau is the 480th most popular physician (up from 487th in 2019), the 3,839th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,830th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular German Physician.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Ruth Pfau ranks 480 out of 726. Before her are Gustav Hartlaub, Richard Bright, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, Antonio Scarpa, Anna Kuliscioff, and Wilhelm Kühne. After her are Max Gerson, Nicolás Monardes, Rutherford Alcock, Wim Eijk, Karin Büttner-Janz, and Carl Lange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Ruth Pfau ranks 278. Before her are Carlo Ubbiali, Walter Kempowski, Duje Bonačić, Jane Powell, Rolan Bykov, and Rhadi Ben Abdesselam. After her are Vang Pao, Ninón Sevilla, John Henry Holland, Girija Devi, Bonnie Bartlett, and Walter Berry. Among people deceased in 2017, Ruth Pfau ranks 252. Before her are Vladimir Petrov, Torgny Lindgren, Željko Perušić, Eugene Garfield, Tony Atkinson, and Svend Asmussen. After her are Gösta Ekman, Marita Lindahl, Ivan Dias, Derek Parfit, Jacques Simon, and Girija Devi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ruth Pfau ranks 3,839 out of 7,253. Before her are Karl Hein (1908), Irmgard Keun (1905), Otto von Münchhausen (1716), Albert Bassermann (1867), Rudolf von Bünau (1890), and Wilhelm Kühne (1837). After her are Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (1858), Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900), Friedrich von Ingenohl (1857), Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg (1815), Johann Most (1846), and Botho Strauß (1944).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Ruth Pfau ranks 83. Before her are Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833), Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762), Friedrich von Huene (1875), Friedrich von Esmarch (1823), Gustav Hartlaub (1814), and Wilhelm Kühne (1837). After her are Karin Büttner-Janz (1952), Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (1714), Kurt Blome (1894), Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786), Frederic Lewy (1885), and Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (1771).

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