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Arthur Scargill

1938 - Today

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Arthur Scargill (born 11 January 1938) is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. He is best known for leading the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike, a major event in the history of the British labour movement. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Scargill has received more than 1,967,474 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Arthur Scargill is the 606th most popular social activist (down from 552nd in 2019), the 5,031st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,271st in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Social Activist.

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  • 50.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Arthur Scargill ranks 606 out of 840. Before him are Jamnalal Bajaj, Ingrid Newkirk, Martin Luther King III, Lillian Wald, Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba, and Nirmala Deshpande. After him are Jared Taylor, Anna Aloys Henga, Aaron Swartz, Jadav Payeng, Agnès Callamard, and Mario Savio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Arthur Scargill ranks 533. Before him are Emilio Trivini, Luciano Federici, Phillip Griffiths, Bernard Malivoire, Marjatta Kajosmaa, and Anne Buttimer. After him are Billy Mills, Alberto Orlando, John Connelly, John Dean, Aleksandar Kostov, and Jimmy Carl Black.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Scargill ranks 5,031 out of 8,785. Before him are Alan Hansen (1955), Jimmy Murray (1933), Valerie Hobson (1917), Harry Ryan (1893), Davey Boy Smith (1962), and Tulisa (1988). After him are Olivia d'Abo (1969), Michael Hordern (1911), Charlie Cox (1982), Clive Bunker (1946), Jonny Buckland (1977), and Geraint Thomas (1986).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Arthur Scargill ranks 40. Before him are Emily Hobhouse (1860), Annie Kenney (1879), Flora Drummond (1878), Emily Davies (1830), Thomas Clarkson (1760), and Ingrid Newkirk (1949). After him are James Larkin (1876), Harry Hay (1912), Mirabehn (1892), Samuel Gompers (1850), Anthony Dod Mantle (1955), and Charlotte Despard (1844).

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