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Avijit Roy

1972 - 2015

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Avijit Roy (Bengali: অভিজিৎ রায়; 12 September 1972 – 26 February 2015) was a Bangladeshi-American engineer, online activist, writer, and blogger known for creating and administrating the Mukto-Mona (Free-minded), an Internet blogging community for Bangladeshi freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists, and humanists. Roy was an advocate of free expression in Bangladesh, coordinating international protests against government censorship and imprisonment of atheist bloggers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Avijit Roy has received more than 248,007 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Avijit Roy is the 6,338th most popular writer (down from 5,492nd in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Bangladesh (down from 40th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Bangladeshi Writer.

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  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 31.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Avijit Roy ranks 6,338 out of 5,755Before him are Rebecca Walker, Al Roker, Lucía Puenzo, Justin Knapp, Vicenç Pagès, and Maria Parr. After him are Mamunul Haque, Bryan Konietzko, Elena Milashina, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Arno Geiger, and Judith Schalansky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Avijit Roy ranks 739Before him are José Vicente García, Naoki Mori, Katarína Hasprová, Sergejs Žoltoks, Lee Eun-kyung, and Anderson Luis da Silva. After him are Lisa Ray, Brigid Brannagh, Kate Ashfield, Daima Beltrán, Akira Ito, and Ill Bill. Among people deceased in 2015, Avijit Roy ranks 506Before him are Olene Walker, Perro Aguayo Jr., Howard Davis Jr., Alexis Vastine, Annarita Sidoti, and Richard Meade. After him are Charles Kennedy, Márton Fülöp, Jerome Kersey, Olga Syahputra, Windell Middlebrooks, and Sergey Sharikov.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Avijit Roy ranks 52 out of 57Before him are Geeta Dutt (1930), Bimal Roy (1909), Irene Khan (1956), Runa Laila (1952), A. B. Bardhan (1924), and Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury (1966). After him are Mamunul Haque (1973), Monica Ali (1967), Shakib Al Hasan (1987), Mashrafe Mortaza (1983), and Mushfiqur Rahim (1987).

Among WRITERS In Bangladesh

Among writers born in Bangladesh, Avijit Roy ranks 5Before him are Sri Chinmoy (1931), Begum Rokeya (1880), Mahasweta Devi (1926), and Taslima Nasrin (1962). After him are Mamunul Haque (1973) and Monica Ali (1967).