The Most Famous
SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Liberia
This page contains a list of the greatest Liberian Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 538 Social Activists, 1 of which were born in Liberia. This makes Liberia the birth place of the 78th most number of Social Activists behind Jordan and New Zealand.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Liberian Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Liberian Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Leymah Gbowee (1972 - )
With an HPI of 53.39, Leymah Gbowee is the most famous Liberian Social Activist. Her biography has been translated into 76 different languages on wikipedia.
Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born 1 February 1972) is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's nonviolent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. Her efforts to end the war, along with her collaborator Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, helped usher in a period of peace and enabled a free election in 2005 that Sirleaf won. Gbowee and Sirleaf, along with Tawakkul Karman, were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."
Pantheon has 1 people classified as social activists born between 1972 and 1972. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living social activists include Leymah Gbowee.
