The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Latvia
This page contains a list of the greatest Latvian Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 3,187 Religious Figures, 2 of which were born in Latvia. This makes Latvia the birth place of the 100th most number of Religious Figures behind Côte d'Ivoire, and Cuba.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Latvian Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Latvian Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Jānis Pujats (b. 1930)
With an HPI of 65.83, Jānis Pujats is the most famous Latvian Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.
Jānis Pujats (born 14 November 1930) is a Latvian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Riga from 1991 to 2010. He was secretly made a cardinal in 1998.
2. Jānis Endzelīns (1873 - 1961)
With an HPI of 55.72, Jānis Endzelīns is the 2nd most famous Latvian Religious Figure. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Jānis Endzelīns (22 February 1873 – 1 July 1961) was a Latvian linguist. He graduated from the University of Tartu. In 1908, he and Kārlis Mīlenbahs developed the modern Latvian alphabet, which slowly replaced the old orthography used before. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1936. His son was chess master Lūcijs Endzelīns.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Latvian religious figures born between 1873 and 1930. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Latvian religious figures include Jānis Pujats. The most famous deceased Latvian religious figures include Jānis Endzelīns.
