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The Most Famous

SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Yemen

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This page contains a list of the greatest Yemeni Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 538 Social Activists, 1 of which were born in Yemen. This makes Yemen the birth place of the 82nd most number of Social Activists behind Bolivia and Aruba.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Yemeni Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Yemeni Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Tawakkol Karman (1979 - )

With an HPI of 51.80, Tawakkol Karman is the most famous Yemeni Social Activist.  Her biography has been translated into 79 different languages on wikipedia.

Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Khalid Karman (Arabic: توكل عبد السلام خالد كرمان, romanized: Tawakkul 'Abd us-Salām Khālid Karmān; also romanized Tawakul, Tawakel; born 7 February 1979) is a Yemeni Nobel Laureate, journalist, politician, and human rights activist. She leads the group "Women Journalists Without Chains," which she co-founded in 2005. She became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising that was part of the Arab Spring uprisings. In 2011, she was reportedly called the "Iron Woman" and "Mother of the Revolution" by some Yemenis. She is a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize. Karman gained prominence in her country after 2005 in her roles as a Yemeni journalist and an advocate for a mobile phone news service denied a license in 2007, after which she led protests for press freedom. She organized weekly protests after May 2007 expanding the issues for reform. She redirected the Yemeni protests to support the "Jasmine Revolution," as she calls the Arab Spring, after the Tunisian people overthrew the government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011. She was a vocal opponent who called for the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's regime.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as social activists born between 1979 and 1979. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living social activists include Tawakkol Karman.

Living Social Activists

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