SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Abbé Pierre

1912 - 2007

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Abbé Pierre (born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès; 5 August 1912 – 22 January 2007) was a French Catholic priest. He was a member of the Resistance during World War II and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement (MRP). In 1949, he founded the Emmaus movement, with the goal of helping poor and homeless people and refugees. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abbé Pierre has received more than 329,180 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Abbé Pierre is the 186th most popular social activist (down from 158th in 2019), the 1,633rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,468th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Social Activist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 5.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Abbé Pierre ranks 186 out of 840. Before him are Jan Karski, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Leopold Trepper, Kailash Satyarthi, Huda Sha'arawi, and Edward Snowden. After him are Salvador Puig Antich, Kang Pan-sok, Manuela Sáenz, Kartini, Chen Sheng, and Subcomandante Marcos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Abbé Pierre ranks 75. Before him are Ivan Yakubovsky, György Sárosi, Shoichi Nishimura, Julia Child, Taiichi Ohno, and Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum. After him are Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, Chaïm Perelman, Kamala Sohonie, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Jacques Ellul, and Frank Oppenheimer. Among people deceased in 2007, Abbé Pierre ranks 58. Before him are Bob Denard, Rudolf Arnheim, Robert Adler, Ian Smith, Magda Szabó, and Jaan Kross. After him are Ettore Sottsass, Sol LeWitt, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Jupp Derwall, Joe Zawinul, and Colin McRae.

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In France

Among people born in France, Abbé Pierre ranks 1,633 out of 6,770. Before him are Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715), Walter Krüger (1890), Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757), Jules de Goncourt (1830), Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911), and Raymond Loewy (1893). After him are Philippe Soupault (1897), Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Élie Cartan (1869), Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489), Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808), and Remy de Gourmont (1858).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In France

Among social activists born in France, Abbé Pierre ranks 12. Before him are René Cassin (1887), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Flora Tristan (1803), Jacques Roux (1752), and René Just Haüy (1743). After him are Balthasar Gérard (1557), Ravachol (1859), Guillaume Cale (1350), Édouard René de Laboulaye (1811), Marina Ginestà (1919), and François-Jean de la Barre (1745).

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