RELIGIOUS FIGURE

William Tyndale

1494 - 1536

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William Tyndale (; sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall; c. 1494 – c. 6 October 1536) was an English biblical scholar and linguist who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution. He is well known as a translator of most of the Bible into English, and was influenced by the works of prominent Protestant Reformers such as Martin Luther.Tyndale's translation was the first English Bible to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts to some extent, the first English translation to take advantage of the printing press, the first of the new English Bibles of the Reformation, and the first English translation to use Jehovah ("Iehouah") as God's name as preferred by English Protestant Reformers. It was taken to be a direct challenge to the hegemony of the Catholic Church and of those laws of England maintaining the church's position. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Tyndale has received more than 2,890,716 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. William Tyndale is the 788th most popular religious figure (down from 657th in 2019), the 722nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 519th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Religious Figure.

William Tyndale was a scholar and translator of the Bible. He was the first person to translate the Bible into English, which is now known as the Tyndale Bible.

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  • 46

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Over the past year William Tyndale has had the most page views in the with 372,010 views, followed by Spanish (52,937), and Portuguese (19,399). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (95.02%), Croatian (57.43%), and Belarusian (44.38%)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, William Tyndale ranks 788 out of 3,187. Before him are József Mindszenty, Expeditus, Philip the Evangelist, Robert de Sorbon, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, and Ubayy ibn Ka'b. After him are Augustine of Canterbury, Athenagoras of Athens, Anastasius of Persia, Hippolytus of Rome, Nicholas of Flüe, and Eutyches.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1494, William Tyndale ranks 12. Before him are Pontormo, Bona Sforza, Jean Parisot de Valette, Leo Africanus, Rosso Fiorentino, and Lucas van Leyden. After him are Hans Sachs, Antonio de Mendoza, Saitō Dōsan, Oronce Finé, Hans Tausen, and Antoinette de Bourbon. Among people deceased in 1536, William Tyndale ranks 7. Before him are Erasmus, Anne Boleyn, Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, Catherine of Aragon, Baldassare Peruzzi, and Germaine of Foix. After him are Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Garcilaso de la Vega, John of Leiden, Cecilia Gallerani, and George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Tyndale ranks 722 out of 8,785. Before him are George Darwin (1845), William Byrd (1543), Kenny Dalglish (1951), Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765), Charles Vane (1680), and Matt Busby (1909). After him are John Cockcroft (1897), Robert Grosseteste (1175), Catherine of Lancaster (1373), Mary Quant (1930), David Hockney (1937), and Daniel Rutherford (1749).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United Kingdom

Among religious figures born in United Kingdom, William Tyndale ranks 15. Before him are Saint Walpurga (710), Saint Boniface (680), Thomas Wolsey (1473), Pope Adrian IV (1100), Willibrord (658), and John Henry Newman (1801). After him are Charles Spurgeon (1834), John Harvard (1607), Frederick Fleet (1887), Mary Ann Nichols (1845), Henry (1100), and Saint David (512).

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