RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Julia Pastrana

1834 - 1860

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Julia Pastrana (August 1834 – 25 March 1860) was a performer and singer during the 19th century who had hypertrichosis. Pastrana, an indigenous woman from Mexico, was born in 1834, somewhere in the state of Sinaloa. She was born with a genetic condition, hypertrichosis terminalis (or generalized hypertrichosis lanuginosa); her face and body were covered with straight black hair. Her ears and nose were unusually large, and her teeth were irregular. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Julia Pastrana is the 1,285th most popular religious figure (down from 863rd in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 36th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Mexican Religious Figure.

Julia Pastrana is most famous for being the first known person with a condition called hypertrichosis, which is an overgrowth of hair on the face and body. She was born in Mexico in 1834 and died in 1860.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Julia Pastrana ranks 1,285 out of 3,187. Before her are Agostino Vallini, Ilon Wikland, Meletius of Antioch, Loris Francesco Capovilla, Benedict Joseph Labre, and Jozef De Kesel. After her are Eugenia of Rome, Estanislao Esteban Karlic, Ahmad al-Badawi, Tola, Najm al-Din Kubra, and Eusebius of Vercelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Julia Pastrana ranks 26. Before her are Norodom of Cambodia, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Kondō Isami, Hetty Green, Kawakami Gensai, and Gaston Planté. After her are Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Heinrich von Treitschke, Gustav Nachtigal, Viktor Hartmann, and Herman Snellen. Among people deceased in 1860, Julia Pastrana ranks 16. Before her are István Széchenyi, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, Lady Byron, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, William Walker, and George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen. After her are Ang Duong, André Marie Constant Duméril, Thomas Addison, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Ferdinand Christian Baur, and Ii Naosuke.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Julia Pastrana ranks 70 out of 729. Before her are Katy Jurado (1924), Antonio Carbajal (1929), Subcomandante Marcos (1957), Ricardo Montalbán (1920), Amado Carrillo Fuentes (1956), and Manuel Ávila Camacho (1897). After her are Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1911), Itzcoatl (1380), Vicente Fernández (1940), Lila Downs (1968), Felipe Calderón (1962), and Marcial Maciel (1920).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Mexico

Among religious figures born in Mexico, Julia Pastrana ranks 2. Before her are Juan Diego (1474). After her are Marcial Maciel (1920), José Sánchez del Río (1913), Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (1933), Tlacaelel (1397), Francisco Robles Ortega (1949), Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1926), Bernard Francis Law (1931), Carlos Aguiar Retes (1950), Adolfo Suárez Rivera (1927), and Javier Lozano Barragán (1933).

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