SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Anjem Choudary

1967 - Today

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Anjem Choudary (Urdu: انجم چودهرى, aka Abu Luqman; born 18 January 1967) is a British Islamist who has been described as "the face" of militant Islamism or the "best known" Islamic extremist in Britain. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2024 after being found guilty of directing a terror organisation. Members of his group have been accused of being linked to between 25 and 40% of terrorist events in Britain up to 2015 according to various researchers, journalists and others, and of inspiring more than 100 foreign fighters to fight in jihad according to the UK government. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anjem Choudary has received more than 1,988,868 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Anjem Choudary is the 746th most popular social activist (down from 630th in 2019), the 6,900th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,618th in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Anjem Choudary ranks 746 out of 840. Before him are Oliver Wood, Peter Tatchell, Nisha Ayub, Cindy Sheehan, Nikolay Alexeyev, and FannyAnn Eddy. After him are Indira Bajramović, Samar Badawi, Máxima Acuña, Ihor Kostenko, Edvin Kanka Cudic, and Eva Abu Halaweh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Anjem Choudary ranks 770. Before him are Julio Granda, Andrey Pyatnitsky, Olivier Delaître, Isidora Žebeljan, Iulian Chiriță, and Pieter Vink. After him are Rahul Bose, Toomas Tõniste, Ashutosh Rana, Shankar Mahadevan, Aurelio Voltaire, and Ruthie Bolton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anjem Choudary ranks 6,900 out of 8,785. Before him are James Anderson (1982), Youth (1960), Lucy Pinder (1983), Thomas Doherty (1995), Daniel Jones (1973), and Tamsin Greig (1966). After him are Mo Mowlam (1949), Albert Quixall (1933), Richard Dannatt (1950), Matthew Upson (1979), Dave Brailsford (1964), and Jamaal Lascelles (1993).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Anjem Choudary ranks 49. Before him are Mirabehn (1892), Samuel Gompers (1850), Anthony Dod Mantle (1955), Charlotte Despard (1844), Anna Howard Shaw (1847), and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867). After him are Polly Higgins (1968), and Abby Gustaitis (1991).

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