SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Angela Davis

1944 - Today

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Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Angela Davis has received more than 9,490,449 page views. Her biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Angela Davis is the 43rd most popular social activist (up from 62nd in 2019), the 384th most popular biography from United States (up from 587th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Social Activist.

Angela Davis is most famous for her involvement in the Black Panther Party and the Communist Party, her activism, and her release from prison.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Angela Davis ranks 43 out of 840. Before her are Jan Palach, Sophie Scholl, Shirin Ebadi, Simon Wiesenthal, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Martin Niemöller. After her are Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Pheidippides, Emma Goldman, Lê Đức Thọ, and Yemelyan Pugachev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Angela Davis ranks 24. Before her are Joe Frazier, Jimmy Page, Alan Parker, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Scott, and Rafic Hariri. After her are Sali Berisha, Jacqueline Bisset, Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Sepp Maier, Rem Koolhaas, and Diana Ross.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Angela Davis ranks 384 out of 20,380. Before her are Rock Hudson (1925), Mickey Rourke (1952), O. Henry (1862), Raymond Chandler (1888), Chester W. Nimitz (1885), and Henry James (1843). After her are Ryan O'Neal (1941), Dan Brown (1964), Ruth Handler (1916), Edward Drinker Cope (1840), Sylvia Plath (1932), and Kurt Cobain (1967).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Angela Davis ranks 8. Before her are Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), Helen Keller (1880), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Jane Addams (1860), Rosa Parks (1913), and Emily Greene Balch (1867). After her are Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Harriet Tubman (1820), Susan B. Anthony (1820), Jody Williams (1950), Bugsy Siegel (1906), and Nat Turner (1800).

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