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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 897,855 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Ruth Pfau is the 488th most popular physician (down from 397th in 2019), the 3,840th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,052nd in 2019) and the 78th most popular German Physician.

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  • 48.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Ruth Pfau ranks 488 out of 502. Before her are Robert Knox, Jeffrey Ullman, Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, Ancel Keys, and Ludwig Aschoff. After her are Joep Lange, William Beaumont, Giuseppe Pitrè, Ludwig Traube, Thomas Francis Wade, and Ernest Starling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Ruth Pfau ranks 303. Before her are Bazilio Olara-Okello, James Shigeta, Hallgeir Brenden, Bonnie Bartlett, Hubert Dreyfus, and Carlo Clerici. After her are Alla Horska, Kenneth MacMillan, Charles Moore, Sebastian Koto Khoarai, Barbara Walters, and Avet Terterian. Among people deceased in 2017, Ruth Pfau ranks 284. Before her are Björn Granath, Hrvoje Šarinić, Hubert Dreyfus, Tim Pigott-Smith, William Lombardy, and Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov. After her are Derek Parfit, Oleg Vidov, Abdelmajid Dolmy, Prodigy, Roberto Ferreiro, and Ulli Lommel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ruth Pfau ranks 3,840 out of 6,142. Before her are Menahem Pressler (1923), Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1893), Eberhard Diepgen (1941), Franz Roth (1946), Lily Braun (1865), and Ludwig Aschoff (1866). After her are Gernot Rohr (1953), Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1948), Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803), Paul Götz (1883), Wolf Hoffmann (1959), and Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (1908).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Ruth Pfau ranks 78. Before her are Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744), Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783), Caspar Peucer (1525), Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839), Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885), and Ludwig Aschoff (1866). After her are Frederic Lewy (1885), Wilhelm Kühne (1837), Gustav Hartlaub (1814), Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (1714), Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff (1807), and Ferdinand von Mueller (1825).

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