1903 - 1954
Maurice Tillet (23 October 1903 – 4 September 1954) was a Russian-born French professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The French Angel/The Angel. Tillet was a leading box office draw in the early 1940s and was twice World Heavyweight Champion in the American Wrestling Association run by Paul Bowser in Boston. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of The French Angel has received more than 2,525,791 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. The French Angel is the 3rd most popular wrestler (down from 2nd in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from Russia (down from 205th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Wrestler.
The French Angel is a famous painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. It is a depiction of a woman in a white dress sitting on a bench in front of a landscape.
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Among wrestlers, The French Angel ranks 3 out of 700. Before him are André the Giant and Hulk Hogan. After him are Kane, John Cena, Aleksandr Karelin, Masahiko Kimura, Antonio Inoki, Anton Geesink, Dave Bautista, Chyna, and Rocky Johnson.
1946 - 1993
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 1
1953 - Present
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 2
1903 - 1954
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 3
1967 - Present
HPI: 62.96
Rank: 4
1977 - Present
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 5
1967 - Present
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 6
1917 - 1993
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 7
1943 - 2022
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 8
1934 - 2010
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 9
1969 - Present
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 10
1969 - 2016
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 11
1944 - 2020
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1903, The French Angel ranks 31. Before him are Karl Hanke, Alec Douglas-Home, Jan Tinbergen, Mustafa Barzani, Irène Némirovsky, and Hans Jonas. After him are Bing Crosby, Fahri Korutürk, Hugo Theorell, Raymond Queneau, Matthias Sindelar, and Igor Kurchatov. Among people deceased in 1954, The French Angel ranks 19. Before him are Wilhelm Furtwängler, Maximilian von Weichs, Dziga Vertov, Otto Diels, Andrey Vyshinsky, and Machine Gun Kelly. After him are Jacinto Benavente, Claude Cahun, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Auguste Perret, Hannes Meyer, and Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
1903 - 1945
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 25
1903 - 1995
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 26
1903 - 1994
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 27
1903 - 1979
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 28
1903 - 1942
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 29
1903 - 1993
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 30
1903 - 1954
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 31
1903 - 1977
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 32
1903 - 1987
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 33
1903 - 1982
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 34
1903 - 1976
HPI: 64.20
Rank: 35
1903 - 1939
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 36
1903 - 1960
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 37
1886 - 1954
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 13
1881 - 1954
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 14
1896 - 1954
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 15
1876 - 1954
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 16
1883 - 1954
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 17
1895 - 1954
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 18
1903 - 1954
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 19
1866 - 1954
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 20
1894 - 1954
HPI: 62.21
Rank: 21
1886 - 1954
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 22
1874 - 1954
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 23
1889 - 1954
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 24
1884 - 1954
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 25
Among people born in Russia, The French Angel ranks 211 out of 3,262. Before him are Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895), Öz Beg Khan (1282), Ivan I of Moscow (1288), Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857), Roman Abramovich (1966), and Alexander Herzen (1812). After him are Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821), Vasily II of Moscow (1415), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Ivan Krylov (1769), Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), and Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904).
1895 - 1970
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 205
1282 - 1341
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 206
1288 - 1340
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 207
1857 - 1905
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 208
1966 - Present
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 209
1812 - 1870
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 210
1903 - 1954
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 211
1821 - 1894
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 212
1415 - 1462
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 213
1899 - 1986
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 214
1769 - 1844
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 215
1599 - 1655
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 216
1904 - 1986
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 217
Among wrestlers born in Russia, The French Angel ranks 1. After him are Aleksandr Karelin (1967), Khabib Nurmagomedov (1988), Alfred Asikainen (1888), Oskari Friman (1893), Ivan Yarygin (1948), Buvaisar Saitiev (1975), Soslan Andiyev (1952), Artur Taymazov (1979), Abdulrashid Sadulaev (1996), Pavel Pinigin (1953), and Hüseyin Özkan (1972).
1903 - 1954
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 1
1967 - Present
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 2
1988 - Present
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 3
1888 - 1942
HPI: 48.30
Rank: 4
1893 - 1933
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 5
1948 - 1997
HPI: 45.94
Rank: 6
1975 - Present
HPI: 45.21
Rank: 7
1952 - 2018
HPI: 42.53
Rank: 8
1979 - Present
HPI: 39.11
Rank: 9
1996 - Present
HPI: 38.19
Rank: 10
1953 - Present
HPI: 37.95
Rank: 11
1972 - Present
HPI: 37.17
Rank: 12