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 2,844,895 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Abdul Sattar Edhi is the 416th most popular social activist (down from 412th in 2019), the 490th most popular biography from India and the 31st most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Abdul Sattar Edhi ranks 416 out of 840. Before him are Muthulakshmi Reddy, Miroslav Tyrš, Mary Harris Jones, Mahmoud Taleghani, Shireen Abu Akleh, and Mary Edwards Walker. After him are Mary Dyer, Samantha Smith, Giuseppe Pinelli, Josephine Butler, Eugene V. Debs, and Iosif Grigulevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Abdul Sattar Edhi ranks 324. Before him are Eugenio Monti, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Peter Shirayanagi, Karl Josef Becker, Paul Arizin, and Ann Blyth. After him are Mary Daly, Giuseppe Pinelli, Angus Ogilvy, Tzannis Tzannetakis, Carl Dahlhaus, and Robert Dienst. Among people deceased in 2016, Abdul Sattar Edhi ranks 258. Before him are Leon Russell, Jiří Tichý, Marc Riboud, Billy Paul, Marco Pannella, and Ernst Neizvestny. After him are Leonid Zhabotinsky, Yvette Chauviré, Faina Melnik, Anita Brookner, Pedro de Felipe, and Raoul Coutard.

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In India

Among people born in India, Abdul Sattar Edhi ranks 490 out of 1,861. Before him are Somnath Sharma (1923), Sharad Pawar (1940), Harish-Chandra (1923), Om Puri (1950), Arundhati Roy (1961), and Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805). After him are Nutan (1936), Kumaragupta I (400), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), Balaji Baji Rao (1720), Irrfan Khan (1967), and Kumar Pallana (1918).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Abdul Sattar Edhi ranks 31. Before him are Udham Singh (1899), Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Pingali Venkayya (1876), Madan Lal Dhingra (1883), Kamala Nehru (1899), and Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886). After him are Saalumarada Thimmakka (1911), Rajendra K. Pachauri (1940), Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903), Sugathakumari (1934), Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878), and Shivakumara Swami (1907).

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