RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Samuel Wilson

1766 - 1854

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Samuel Wilson (September 13, 1766 – July 31, 1854) was an American meat packer who lived in Troy, New York, whose name is purportedly the source of the personification of the United States known as "Uncle Sam". Wilson was born in the historic town of Arlington, Massachusetts, (known as Menotomy at the time, township of West Cambridge), to parents Edward and Lucy Wilson. Wilson is a descendant of one of the oldest families of Boston; through direct heritance of his grandfather Robert Wilson, originally from Greenock, Scotland, he was Scottish with a Massachusetts background. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Wilson has received more than 901,883 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Samuel Wilson is the 1,667th most popular religious figure (up from 1,681st in 2019), the 3,209th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,534th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 900k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Samuel Wilson ranks 1,667 out of 3,187. Before him are Josip Bozanić, Abdelhamid Ben Badis, Eudokia of Heliopolis, Karl-Josef Rauber, Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg, and Jorge Medina. After him are Ieronymos II of Athens, Aulus Licinius Archias, Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow, Julian of Toledo, Paschal Baylón, and Domitilla the Younger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Samuel Wilson ranks 20. Before him are Dominique Jean Larrey, William Hyde Wollaston, Slimane of Morocco, Charles Macintosh, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and François-Xavier Fabre. After him are Robert Darwin, Samuel Frederick Gray, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Joseph Weigl, John Leslie, and Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel. Among people deceased in 1854, Samuel Wilson ranks 20. Before him are John Martin, Kamehameha III, Almeida Garrett, Marcellin Marbot, Jeremias Gotthelf, and Pierre Alphonse Laurent. After him are Nicolás Bravo, Vatroslav Lisinski, Émilie de Villeneuve, Silvio Pellico, Joseph de Villèle, and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel Wilson ranks 3,209 out of 20,380. Before him are Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), David Petraeus (1952), Andrew Fire (1959), Laurie Metcalf (1955), Johnny Carson (1925), and Katherine Jackson (1930). After him are Jennifer Love Hewitt (1979), Kristin Davis (1965), Brent Spiner (1949), Alexandra Ripley (1934), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), and Christian Slater (1969).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Samuel Wilson ranks 21. Before him are Marie Laveau (1801), Raymond Leo Burke (1948), Angelo Dundee (1921), Ellen Church (1904), William Levada (1936), and Frederick William Franz (1893). After him are Nathan Homer Knorr (1905), Raymond Franz (1922), Don Alden Adams (1925), Fulton J. Sheen (1895), Kateri Tekakwitha (1656), and Bill W. (1895).

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