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Dwight L. Moody

1837 - 1899

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Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 – December 22, 1899), also known as D. L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher connected with Keswickianism, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now Northfield Mount Hermon School), Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers. One of his most famous quotes was "Faith makes all things possible... Love makes all things easy." Moody gave up his lucrative boot and shoe business to devote his life to revivalism, working first in the Civil War with Union troops through YMCA in the United States Christian Commission. In Chicago, he built one of the major evangelical centers in the nation, which is still active. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dwight L. Moody is the 2,211th most popular religious figure (down from 2,064th in 2019), the 4,793rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,233rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Dwight L. Moody ranks 2,211 out of 3,187. Before him are Balthasar Bekker, Juraj Drašković, Giuseppe Caprio, Athenodorus of Byzantium, Jacques Hamel, and Aleksander Kakowski. After him are Johannes Cocceius, Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, Umamah bint Zainab, Ghevont Alishan, Norman Thomas Gilroy, and Engelbert II of Berg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Dwight L. Moody ranks 66. Before him are George Dewey, Wilhelm Kühne, Kabayama Sukenori, John Wesley Hyatt, Tippu Tip, and Ernst Ziller. After him are Anna Filosofova, Sanjō Sanetomi, Walter Hauser, Georg Ossian Sars, Michele Rua, and Henry Becque. Among people deceased in 1899, Dwight L. Moody ranks 41. Before him are George Averoff, Lucien Quélet, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, Princess Marie of Baden, Carl Millöcker, and Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe. After him are Antonio Guzmán Blanco, Paul Janet, Wilhelm Jordan, Juliusz Kossak, Sophronius IV of Alexandria, and Franziskus von Paula Graf von Schönborn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dwight L. Moody ranks 4,793 out of 20,380. Before him are Tyra Banks (1973), Martin Hellman (1945), Robert M. Pirsig (1928), George Newbold Lawrence (1806), Horace McCoy (1897), and Lesley Gore (1946). After him are Jane Badler (1953), Chuck Schuldiner (1967), R. Budd Dwyer (1939), Holland Smith (1882), Frank Loomis (1896), and Doug Savant (1964).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Dwight L. Moody ranks 46. Before him are Fulton J. Sheen (1895), Jeralean Talley (1899), Angelo Dundee (1921), Ellen Church (1904), Charles Fox Parham (1873), and William J. Seymour (1870). After him are Bill W. (1895), Emma Tillman (1892), David Wilkerson (1931), Robert Barron (1959), Edwin Frederick O'Brien (1939), and Samuel Wilson (1766).

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