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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

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 UK miners' strike (1984–85), 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 1,823,473 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Arthur Scargill is the 552nd most popular social activist (down from 458th in 2019), the 5,283rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,698th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Social Activist.

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  • 16

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  • 1.41

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  • 3.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Arthur Scargill ranks 552 out of 538. Before him are Mary McLeod Bethune, Faiza Jama Mohamed, Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba, Asma Jahangir, Samuel Gompers, and Lydia Cacho. After him are Ashin Wirathu, Emily Murphy, Fannie Lou Hamer, Felix Nartey, Roman Protasevich, and Rajmohan Gandhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Arthur Scargill ranks 505. Before him are Les Aspin, Caryl Churchill, Timmy Mayer, Neville Lederle, Peter Westbury, and Ernie Pieterse. After him are Terry Wogan, Eduard Ivanov, Wilson Kiprugut, Ryszard Parulski, Darrall Imhoff, and Sultan Rahi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Scargill ranks 5,283 out of 7,765. Before him are Neville Southall (1958), Emily Bergl (1975), Simon Woods (1980), Mike Coughlan (1959), Aaron Wan-Bissaka (1997), and Peter Westbury (1938). After him are Jim Leighton (1958), Richard Crashaw (1612), Thomas Dolby (1958), Jemima Kirke (1985), Lawrence Hargrave (1850), and Zuleikha Robinson (1977).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Arthur Scargill ranks 41. Before him are Thomas Clarkson (1760), James Larkin (1876), Emily Davies (1830), Harry Hay (1912), Ingrid Newkirk (1949), and Samuel Gompers (1850). After him are Charlotte Despard (1844), Anna Howard Shaw (1847), Anthony Dod Mantle (1955), and Anjem Choudary (1967).

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