RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Billy Meier

1937 - Today

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Eduard Albert Meier (born 3 February 1937), commonly nicknamed "Billy", is the founder of a UFO religion called the "Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien" (Free Community of Interests for the Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies) and alleged contactee whose UFO photographs are claimed to show alien spacecraft. Meier claims to be in regular contact with extraterrestrial beings he calls the Plejaren. He also presented other material during the 1970s such as metal samples, sound recordings and film footage. Meier claims to be the seventh reincarnation after six prophets common to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Enoch, Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Immanuel (Jesus), and Muhammad. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Billy Meier is the 1,439th most popular religious figure (down from 1,291st in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 187th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swiss Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Billy Meier ranks 1,439 out of 3,187. Before him are Zanabazar, Antipope Theodoric, Mario Zenari, Luigi Orione, Fermin, and Carpocrates. After him are William de Longchamp, Frederick of Utrecht, Reginald Pole, Shunryū Suzuki, Macrina the Younger, and John Eudes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Billy Meier ranks 127. Before him are Franz Vranitzky, Francis Veber, Amos Tversky, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Petros Markaris, and Olusegun Obasanjo. After him are Robert B. Wilson, Joseph Kobzon, Bella Akhmadulina, Emerich Jenei, Lajos Portisch, and Naji al-Ali.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Billy Meier ranks 203 out of 1,015. Before him are Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza (1945), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Ueli Maurer (1950), Frithjof Schuon (1907), Köbi Kuhn (1943), and Simonetta Sommaruga (1960). After him are Edwin Fischer (1886), Pietro Lombardo (1435), Louis Zutter (1865), Pancho Vladigerov (1899), Jean Starobinski (1920), and Guy Parmelin (1959).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Switzerland

Among religious figures born in Switzerland, Billy Meier ranks 11. Before him are Brother Roger (1915), Anders Arborelius (1949), Heinrich Bullinger (1504), Kurt Koch (1950), Jakob Ammann (1644), and Ulrich of Augsburg (890). After him are Jacob Sprenger (1435), Emil Brunner (1889), Henri Schwery (1932), Wiborada (900), Gilberto Agustoni (1922), and Georges Cottier (1922).

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