1965 - 2004
David Reimer (born Bruce Peter Reimer; 22 August 1965 – 4 May 2004) was a Canadian man raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy.The psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. The academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer's realization that he was not a girl occurred between the ages of 9 and 11 years and that he was living as a male by the age of 15. Well known in medical circles for years anonymously as the "John/Joan" case, Reimer later went public with his story to help discourage similar medical practices. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Reimer has received more than 5,744,458 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). David Reimer is the 429th most popular social activist (down from 92nd in 2019), the 337th most popular biography from Canada (up from 364th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Social Activist.
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Among social activists, David Reimer ranks 429 out of 538. Before him are Lucy Stone, Mumia Abu-Jamal, José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Neerja Bhanot, Ruby Bridges, and Jack Sheppard. After him are Joseph Wresinski, Bagha Jatin, Gunnar Sønsteby, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Charu Majumdar, and William Luther Pierce.
1818 - 1893
HPI: 47.31
Rank: 423
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.27
Rank: 424
1917 - 1983
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 425
1963 - 1986
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 426
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 427
1702 - 1724
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 428
1965 - 2004
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 429
1917 - 1988
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 430
1879 - 1915
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 431
1918 - 2012
HPI: 46.69
Rank: 432
1916 - 2008
HPI: 46.67
Rank: 433
1918 - 1972
HPI: 46.66
Rank: 434
1933 - 2002
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 435
Among people born in 1965, David Reimer ranks 200. Before him are Johan Museeuw, Ruud Hesp, Ted Raimi, Jean, Count of Paris, Paulina Porizkova, and Hailemariam Desalegn. After him are Yukihiro Matsumoto, Rachida Dati, Shinichirō Watanabe, Michael E. Brown, Andrew Stanton, and Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 2004, David Reimer ranks 195. Before him are Joan Aiken, Jan Sterling, Sara Lidman, Oscar Heisserer, Balamani Amma, and Janet Akyüz Mattei. After him are Laurance Rockefeller, Lea De Mae, Kenneth E. Iverson, Bagrat Shinkuba, Madeleine Robinson, and Marcelo González Martín.
1965 - Present
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 194
1965 - Present
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 195
1965 - Present
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 196
1965 - Present
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 197
1965 - Present
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 198
1965 - Present
HPI: 47.03
Rank: 199
1965 - 2004
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 200
1965 - Present
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 201
1965 - Present
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 202
1965 - Present
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 203
1965 - Present
HPI: 46.83
Rank: 204
1965 - Present
HPI: 46.74
Rank: 205
1965 - Present
HPI: 46.66
Rank: 206
1924 - 2004
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 189
1921 - 2004
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 190
1923 - 2004
HPI: 47.24
Rank: 191
1914 - 2004
HPI: 47.12
Rank: 192
1909 - 2004
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 193
1943 - 2004
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 194
1965 - 2004
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 195
1910 - 2004
HPI: 47.00
Rank: 196
1976 - 2004
HPI: 46.94
Rank: 197
1920 - 2004
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 198
1917 - 2004
HPI: 46.79
Rank: 199
1917 - 2004
HPI: 46.67
Rank: 200
1918 - 2004
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 201
Among people born in Canada, David Reimer ranks 337 out of 1,350. Before him are Matt Craven (1956), Stu Hart (1915), Billy Bishop (1894), R. B. Bennett (1870), Robert Borden (1854), and Nia Vardalos (1962). After him are Stephen Amell (1981), Robert Joy (1951), Victor Jory (1902), Bernard Lonergan (1904), Anna Paquin (1982), and Howie Mandel (1955).
1956 - Present
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 331
1915 - 2003
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 332
1894 - 1956
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 333
1870 - 1947
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 334
1854 - 1937
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 335
1962 - Present
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 336
1965 - 2004
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 337
1981 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 338
1951 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 339
1902 - 1982
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 340
1904 - 1984
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 341
1982 - Present
HPI: 46.94
Rank: 342
1955 - Present
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 343
Among social activists born in Canada, David Reimer ranks 4. Before him are Paul Watson (1950), Viola Desmond (1914), and John Peters Humphrey (1905). After him are Emily Murphy (1868) and Autumn Peltier (2004).
1950 - Present
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 1
1914 - 1965
HPI: 49.04
Rank: 2
1905 - 1995
HPI: 48.37
Rank: 3
1965 - 2004
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 4
1868 - 1933
HPI: 38.65
Rank: 5
2004 - Present
HPI: 11.92
Rank: 6