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Fred Phelps

1929 - 2014

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Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. (November 13, 1929 – March 19, 2014) was an American minister and disbarred lawyer who served as the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, worked as a civil rights attorney, and ran for statewide election in Kansas. A divisive and controversial figure, he gained national attention for his homophobic views and protests near the funerals of gay people, AIDS victims, military veterans, and disaster victims whom he believed were killed as a result of God punishing the U.S. for having "bankrupt values" and tolerating homosexuality. Phelps founded the Westboro Baptist Church, a Topeka, Kansas-based independent Primitive Baptist congregation, in 1955. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fred Phelps is the 217th most popular social activist (down from 203rd in 2019), the 2,528th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,959th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Social Activist.

Fred Phelps is most famous for being the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, an anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and anti-Catholic church that protests at funerals and other public events.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Fred Phelps ranks 217 out of 840. Before him are Jacques Roux, Nayirah testimony, Moses Montefiore, Chen Sheng, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, and Huda Sha'arawi. After him are Kittur Chennamma, Czesława Kwoka, Christoph Probst, Stjepan Filipović, Ludolf von Alvensleben, and Martin Luther King Sr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Fred Phelps ranks 132. Before him are Bob Denard, Ira Levin, Édouard Balladur, Zillur Rahman, Alain Tanner, and Anastasios of Albania. After him are Fazlur Rahman Khan, Menahem Golan, Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Betty Boothroyd, Jaakko Hintikka, and Darío Castrillón Hoyos. Among people deceased in 2014, Fred Phelps ranks 98. Before him are Gottfried John, Ralph H. Baer, Valeri Kubasov, Christopher Jones, Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, and Jack Bruce. After him are Run Run Shaw, Menahem Golan, Joan Rivers, Mário Coluna, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, and Riz Ortolani.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fred Phelps ranks 2,528 out of 20,380. Before him are Eleanor Parker (1922), Moby (1965), Ashley Judd (1968), James Tolkan (1931), Selena Gomez (1992), and Sean Hayes (1970). After him are Joseph Losey (1909), David Strathairn (1949), Mandy Patinkin (1952), Johnston McCulley (1883), Steven Soderbergh (1963), and Justin Francis Rigali (1935).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Fred Phelps ranks 28. Before him are George Stinney (1929), Frances Willard (1839), David Lane (1938), Frederick Douglass (1818), Billy Milligan (1955), and Sojourner Truth (1797). After him are Martin Luther King Sr. (1899), Gloria Steinem (1934), Edward Snowden (1983), Emmett Till (1941), Coretta Scott King (1927), and Edna Parker (1893).

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