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Ruth Pfau

1929 - 2017

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Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau, FCM (Urdu: رتھ فاؤ; 9 September 1929 – 10 August 2017) was a German–Pakistani Catholic Christian religious sister and physician who was a member of the "Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary". She emigrated from Germany in 1961 and devoted more than 55 years of her life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan. Pfau was honoured with Hilal-e-Pakistan, Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Nishan-i-Quaid-i-Azam, and the Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam awards. Pfau contributed to the establishment of 157 leprosy clinics across Pakistan that treated over 56,780 people. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ruth Pfau is the 508th most popular physician (down from 480th in 2019), the 3,932nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,839th in 2019) and the 84th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Ruth Pfau ranks 508 out of 726. Before her are Oskar Minkowski, Wu Lien-teh, Madeleine Pelletier, Ibn Butlan, Fritz Klein, and Carlo Urbani. After her are Kadambini Ganguly, Ernst von Bergmann, Caspar Peucer, Thomas Francis Wade, Jean Cruveilhier, and Julius Vincenz von Krombholz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Ruth Pfau ranks 293. Before her are Dominique Fernandez, Txillardegi, Mithat Bayrak, Carlo Ubbiali, Ken McGregor, and Ödön Földessy. After her are Hallgeir Brenden, Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, Haruo Nakajima, Don Murray, Hubert Dreyfus, and Lúcio Lara. Among people deceased in 2017, Ruth Pfau ranks 279. Before her are Ilya Glazunov, Oleg Vidov, Holger Czukay, Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Barbara Hale, and Prodigy. After her are Karl-Erik Nilsson, Haruo Nakajima, Ulli Lommel, Hubert Dreyfus, Charles P. Thacker, and Amotz Zahavi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ruth Pfau ranks 3,934 out of 7,253. Before her are Prince August of Württemberg (1813), Leopold Zunz (1794), Hans Furler (1904), Friedrich Silcher (1789), Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803), and Virgil Solis (1514). After her are Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg (1838), Joachim Camerarius (1500), Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg (1805), Mato Kósyk (1853), Max von Schillings (1868), and Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg (1852).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Ruth Pfau ranks 84. Before her are Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783), Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762), Friedrich von Huene (1875), Gustav Fischer (1848), Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833), and Kurt Blome (1894). After her are Caspar Peucer (1525), Frederic Lewy (1885), Franz Josef Ruprecht (1814), Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (1714), Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (1771), and Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839).

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