RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Joseph Smith

1805 - 1844

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Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious and political leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smith attracted tens of thousands of followers by the time of his death fourteen years later. The religious movement he founded is followed by millions of global adherents and several churches, the largest of which is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Smith is the 44th most popular religious figure (up from 60th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from United States (up from 54th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Religious Figure.

Joseph Smith is most famous for founding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Joseph Smith ranks 44 out of 3,187Before him are Pope Benedict XV, Elijah, Guru Nanak, Pope Alexander VI, Jeremiah, and Zoroaster. After him are Mark the Evangelist, John Calvin, Pope Urban VII, Pope Clement VII, Jonah, and Queen of Sheba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Joseph Smith ranks 2Before him is Hans Christian Andersen. After him are Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Alexis de Tocqueville, Giuseppe Mazzini, William Rowan Hamilton, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Fanny Mendelssohn, Louis Auguste Blanqui, and Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Among people deceased in 1844, Joseph Smith ranks 1After him are John Dalton, Charles XIV John of Sweden, Joseph Bonaparte, Ching Shih, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Ivan Krylov, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and William Beckford.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Smith ranks 41 out of 20,380Before him are Benjamin Franklin (1706), John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928), Cher (1946), Madonna (1958), Pocahontas (1595), and Martin Scorsese (1942). After him are Emily Dickinson (1830), Michael Jackson (1958), Ernest Hemingway (1899), Al Gore (1948), George W. Bush (1946), and F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Joseph Smith ranks 2Before him are Pope Leo XIV (1955). After him are Brigham Young (1801), Charles Taze Russell (1852), Maria Branyas (1907), Billy Graham (1918), Henry Molaison (1926), Kateri Tekakwitha (1656), Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930), John Mott (1865), Timothy M. Dolan (1950), and Raymond Leo Burke (1948).