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Beyers Naudé

1915 - 2004

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Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé (10 May 1915 – 7 September 2004) was a South African Afrikaner Calvinist Dominee, theologian and the leading Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Beyers Naudé has received more than 136,740 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Beyers Naudé is the 678th most popular social activist (down from 514th in 2019), the 246th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 161st in 2019) and the 11th most popular South African Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Beyers Naudé ranks 678 out of 840. Before him are Oinikhol Bobonazarova, Reyhaneh Jabbari, Gloria Allred, Rajmohan Gandhi, Charlotte Despard, and Ruthie Tompson. After him are Azimzhan Askarov, Emily Murphy, Anna Howard Shaw, Lillian Ngoyi, Juliette Gordon Low, and Norma Cruz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Beyers Naudé ranks 295. Before him are Bhisham Sahni, John Woodruff, Bobby Hackett, Dorothy Dell, Joyce Redman, and Patricia Ellis. After him are Barbara Billingsley, Archie Williams, Potter Stewart, George Perle, Arthur Owen, and Richard Webb. Among people deceased in 2004, Beyers Naudé ranks 328. Before him are Bob Tisdall, Kurt Dossin, Albert Paulsen, Hugh Shearer, Henry Cockburn, and Dennis Wilshaw. After him are Yash Johar, Salvador Laurel, June Maston, Albeiro Usuriaga, Mikael Ljungberg, and Alphonso Ford.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Beyers Naudé ranks 246 out of 454. Before him are John Langalibalele Dube (1871), Antony Sher (1949), Jodi Balfour (1987), Margaret Gardiner (1959), Naledi Pandor (1953), and Ernie Pieterse (1938). After him are Lindiwe Sisulu (1954), Wayne Ferreira (1971), Theo de Raadt (1968), Moira Lister (1923), Lillian Ngoyi (1911), and Amanda Coetzer (1971).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In South Africa

Among social activists born in South Africa, Beyers Naudé ranks 11. Before him are Ted Grant (1913), Denis Goldberg (1933), Devdas Gandhi (1900), Ramdas Gandhi (1897), Albertina Sisulu (1918), and Bram Fischer (1908). After him are Lillian Ngoyi (1911), Kumi Naidoo (1965), Hector Pieterson (1963), Ayanda Denge (1982), Ayakha Melithafa (2002), and Nkosi Johnson (1989).

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