INSPIRATION

Andrew Wakefield

1957 - Today

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Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 3 September 1956) is a British fraudster, discredited academic, anti-vaccine activist, and former physician. He was struck off the medical register for his involvement in The Lancet MMR autism fraud, a 1998 study that fraudulently claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. He has subsequently become known for anti-vaccination activism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Wakefield has received more than 4,680,384 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Andrew Wakefield is the 8th most popular inspiration (down from 6th in 2019), the 4,071st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,778th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Inspiration.

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  • 4.7M

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  • 53.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INSPIRATIONS

Among inspirations, Andrew Wakefield ranks 8 out of 10Before him are Eugène François Vidocq, Johann Georg Faust, Alice Liddell, Joseph Bell, George Floyd, and Jack LaLanne. After him are Mahsa Amini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Andrew Wakefield ranks 334Before him are Thierry Meyssan, Yelena Kondakova, Matthias Reim, Frank Schätzing, Richie Ramone, and Osman Kavala. After him are Kozo Tashima, Faisal Al-Dakhil, Phil Mahre, Lisa Blount, Andrei Kolkoutine, and Dmitry Nazarov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Wakefield ranks 4,071 out of 8,785Before him are Grace Chisholm Young (1868), Martin O'Neill (1952), Daniel Tammet (1979), Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696), Alan A'Court (1934), and John Goodall (1863). After him are Greg Wise (1966), Stafford Beer (1926), Aneirin (525), Richard Rodney Bennett (1936), Thomas Hodgskin (1787), and Jayne Atkinson (1959).

Among INSPIRATIONS In United Kingdom

Among inspirations born in United Kingdom, Andrew Wakefield ranks 3Before him are Alice Liddell (1852), and Joseph Bell (1837).