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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Abdul Sattar Edhi

1928 - 2016

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Abdul Sattar Edhi NI LPP (Urdu: عبد الستار ایدھی; 28 February 1928 – 8 July 2016) was a Pakistani humanitarian, philanthropist and ascetic who founded the Edhi Foundation, which runs the world's largest ambulance network, along with homeless shelters, animal shelters, rehabilitation centres, and orphanages across Pakistan. Edhi's charitable activities expanded greatly in 1957 when an Asian flu epidemic originating in China swept through Pakistan and the rest of the world. Donations allowed him to buy his first ambulance the same year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdul Sattar Edhi has received more than 2,760,091 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Abdul Sattar Edhi is the 412th most popular social activist (down from 314th in 2019), the 494th most popular biography from India (down from 364th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Abdul Sattar Edhi ranks 412 out of 538. Before him are Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Eugene V. Debs, Otto Warmbier, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Grey Owl, and Frances Ames. After him are Cesar Chavez, Raisa Aronova, Franca Viola, Giuseppe Impastato, Gabriela Silang, and Leonard Peltier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Abdul Sattar Edhi ranks 338. Before him are Klaus von Dohnanyi, Takako Doi, Paul Arizin, Nigel Davenport, Washington Ortuño, and André Schwarz-Bart. After him are Mikio Sato, Dezső Bundzsák, Koko Taylor, Serge Bourguignon, Alice Drummond, and Mário Pinto de Andrade. Among people deceased in 2016, Abdul Sattar Edhi ranks 280. Before him are Prince Buster, Georges Balandier, Lasse Mårtenson, Marni Nixon, Martin Lundström, and Pierre Aubert. After him are Doreen Massey, Banharn Silpa-archa, Eri Klas, Alice Drummond, Rudy Van Gelder, and Émile Derlin Zinsou.

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In India

Among people born in India, Abdul Sattar Edhi ranks 494 out of 1,493. Before him are Sushma Swaraj (1952), Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), Barry Hay (1948), Jaipal Singh Munda (1903), Hrithik Roshan (1974), and Bachendri Pal (1954). After him are Roberto de Nobili (1577), Rajkumar (1929), Ramananda (1400), Sarla Thakral (1914), John Frost (1912), and Kamala Surayya (1934).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Abdul Sattar Edhi ranks 29. Before him are Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Pingali Venkayya (1876), Aruna Asaf Ali (1909), Kamala Nehru (1899), Udham Singh (1899), and Rajendra K. Pachauri (1940). After him are Har Dayal (1884), Neerja Bhanot (1963), Charu Majumdar (1918), Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878), Medha Patkar (1954), and Ela Bhatt (1933).

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