SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Clara Barton

1821 - 1912

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Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then very formalized and she did not attend nursing school, she provided self-taught nursing care. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clara Barton has received more than 2,932,846 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Clara Barton is the 367th most popular social activist (down from 266th in 2019), the 4,266th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,134th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.9M

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  • 58.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Clara Barton ranks 367 out of 840. Before her are Black Elk, Hector Hodler, Karl Ludwig Sand, Vasily Ignatenko, Petro Grigorenko, and Pattimura. After her are Hannie Schaft, Udham Singh, Frank País, Ram Manohar Lohia, Lucretia Mott, and Gulnara Karimova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Clara Barton ranks 60. Before her are Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Princess Catherine of Württemberg, Friedrich Kiel, Charles Francis Hall, Nikolai Zaremba, and James Longstreet. After her are Prince Adolf of Auersperg, Octave Feuillet, Georgi Sava Rakovski, Antonio Ciseri, Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain, and Aleksey Pisemsky. Among people deceased in 1912, Clara Barton ranks 76. Before her are Subh-i-Azal, Paul Kummer, Bernardino Caballero, Edward Wilson, Paul Wallot, and Björn Jónsson. After her are Henri Brisson, José Canalejas, Émile Lemoine, Andrew Lang, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, and Lewis Boss.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clara Barton ranks 4,266 out of 20,380. Before her are Morgan Robertson (1861), Connie Booth (1944), Wallace Beery (1885), Richie Havens (1941), Joseph A. Walker (1921), and William Forsythe (1949). After her are Rose Wilder Lane (1886), Julia Robinson (1919), David Del Tredici (1937), Tommy Mottola (1949), Roseanne Barr (1952), and Julie London (1926).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Clara Barton ranks 39. Before her are Abbie Hoffman (1936), Edna Parker (1893), Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899), Sumner Paine (1868), Dorothy Day (1897), and Black Elk (1863). After her are Lucretia Mott (1793), Marsha P. Johnson (1945), Otto Warmbier (1994), Claudette Colvin (1939), Alice Paul (1885), and Huey P. Newton (1942).

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