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Alva Myrdal

1902 - 1986

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Alva Myrdal ( MUR-dahl, MEER-, Swedish: [ˈǎlːva ˈmy̌ːɖɑːl]; née Reimer; 31 January 1902 – 1 February 1986) was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician. She was a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She, along with Alfonso García Robles, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alva Myrdal has received more than 245,791 page views. Her biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Alva Myrdal is the 17th most popular diplomat (up from 19th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 102nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Diplomat.

Alva Myrdal is most famous for being the co-author of the book "Women's Two Roles."

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  • 64.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Alva Myrdal ranks 17 out of 52. Before her are Raoul Wallenberg, Madeleine Albright, Lucien Bonaparte, Folke Bernadotte, Mohamed ElBaradei, and John R. Bolton. After her are Hasekura Tsunenaga, Chiune Sugihara, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Chaim Herzog, George F. Kennan, and Viktor Chernomyrdin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Alva Myrdal ranks 30. Before her are Arne Tiselius, Meyer Lansky, Arne Jacobsen, Harold Lasswell, Marcel Breuer, and Mikhail Suslov. After her are Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Reinhard Gehlen, Alexander Luria, Theodore Schultz, Émile Benveniste, and Juscelino Kubitschek. Among people deceased in 1986, Alva Myrdal ranks 21. Before her are Harold Macmillan, Urho Kekkonen, Cliff Burton, Celâl Bayar, Henry Moore, and Albert Szent-Györgyi. After her are Fritz Albert Lipmann, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Benny Goodman, Erich Koch, Edward Adelbert Doisy, and James Rainwater.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Alva Myrdal ranks 82 out of 1,612. Before her are Marie Taglioni (1804), Haakon VI of Norway (1340), Eyvind Johnson (1900), Eric the Victorious (945), Anders Zorn (1860), and Lars Vilks (1946). After her are Bibi Andersson (1935), Charles VIII of Sweden (1409), Harry Martinson (1904), Jenny Lind (1820), Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1700), and Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland (1861).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Sweden

Among diplomats born in Sweden, Alva Myrdal ranks 4. Before her are Dag Hammarskjöld (1905), Raoul Wallenberg (1912), and Folke Bernadotte (1895). After her are Hans Blix (1928).

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