SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Annie Kenney

1879 - 1953

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Ann "Annie" Kenney (13 September 1879 – 9 July 1953) was an English working-class suffragette and socialist feminist who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union. She co-founded its first branch in London with Minnie Baldock. Kenney attracted the attention of the press and public in 1905 when she and Christabel Pankhurst were imprisoned for several days for assault and obstruction related to the questioning of Sir Edward Grey at a Liberal rally in Manchester on the issue of votes for women. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Annie Kenney has received more than 283,464 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Annie Kenney is the 571st most popular social activist (down from 446th in 2019), the 4,631st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,646th in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Social Activist.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Annie Kenney ranks 571 out of 840. Before her are Dolores Huerta, Satish Kumar, Wu'erkaixi, Sam Childers, Peter Nguyen Van Hung, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. After her are Aslı Erdoğan, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, Flora Drummond, Emily Davies, Bruno Manser, and Lepa Mladjenovic.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Annie Kenney ranks 229. Before her are Eligio Ayala, Maurice Vignerot, Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok, Otto Nilsson, Francesco Severi, and Marion Jones Farquhar. After her are Søren Marinus Jensen, Joseph Lyons, Clyde Cessna, Alice Greene, Otto Fickeisen, and Øistein Schirmer. Among people deceased in 1953, Annie Kenney ranks 176. Before her are Albert Coates, Maud Gonne, Florence Price, Maurice Vignerot, Herbert E. Ives, and Abdullah Yusuf Ali. After her are Fred M. Vinson, Paul Niggli, Luis Alberto Riart, Henri Padé, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Thomas Thorstensen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Annie Kenney ranks 4,631 out of 8,785. Before her are Parminder Nagra (1975), Neil Kinnock (1942), Howard Kendall (1946), Amos Burn (1848), Guy Simonds (1903), and Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761). After her are Jonathan Palmer (1956), Arthur Symons (1865), Nick Rhodes (1962), Isaac Hempstead Wright (1999), Cosmo Gordon Lang (1864), and Charles Mackay (1814).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Annie Kenney ranks 35. Before her are Jack Sheppard (1702), Hereward the Wake (1035), Grey Owl (1888), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Octavia Hill (1838), and Emily Hobhouse (1860). After her are Flora Drummond (1878), Emily Davies (1830), Thomas Clarkson (1760), Ingrid Newkirk (1949), Arthur Scargill (1938), and James Larkin (1876).

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