RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Marie Laveau

1801 - 1881

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Marie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801 – June 15, 1881) was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, an herbalist, and a midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II (1827 – c. 1862), also practiced rootwork, conjure, and Native American and African spiritualism, as well as Louisiana Voodoo and traditional Roman Catholicism. An alternate spelling of her name, Laveaux (a plural), is considered by historians to be from the original French spelling. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marie Laveau is the 1,882nd most popular religious figure (down from 1,353rd in 2019), the 3,790th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,467th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Marie Laveau ranks 1,882 out of 3,187. Before her are Lokaksema, Andrew Bobola, Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Manuel Clemente, Pandita Ramabai, and Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz. After her are Domenico Calcagno, Julian of Toledo, Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Francesco Montenegro, Carlo Furno, and John of Shanghai and San Francisco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Marie Laveau ranks 45. Before her are Carl Jakob Sundevall, Émile Littré, Henri Labrouste, Vincenzo Gioberti, Armand Trousseau, and Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen. After her are Georgios Koletis, Eugène Burnouf, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Hippolyte Bayard, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, and Pedro Santana. Among people deceased in 1881, Marie Laveau ranks 47. Before her are Princess Caroline of Denmark, Jules Armand Dufaure, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Émile Littré, and Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. After her are Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, Karl Weyprecht, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Aleksey Pisemsky, and Jim Bridger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marie Laveau ranks 3,790 out of 20,380. Before her are William Baldwin (1963), Reggie Fils-Aimé (1961), Mel Blanc (1908), Carmine Coppola (1910), Calista Flockhart (1964), and Eric Singer (1958). After her are Jim Garrison (1921), William Windom (1827), Seymour Hersh (1937), Sean Michaels (1958), Phil Scott (1958), and Scott Carpenter (1925).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Marie Laveau ranks 37. Before her are William H. Keeler (1931), Elizabeth Bolden (1890), Joseph W. Tobin (1952), Robert W. McElroy (1954), James Gibbons (1834), and William Wakefield Baum (1926). After her are Raymond Franz (1922), James Michael Harvey (1949), Fulton J. Sheen (1895), Jeralean Talley (1899), Angelo Dundee (1921), and Ellen Church (1904).

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