SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Dick Gregory

1932 - 2017

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Richard Claxton Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, writer, activist and social critic. His books were bestsellers. Gregory became popular among the African-American communities in the southern United States with his "no-holds-barred" sets, poking fun at the bigotry and racism in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dick Gregory has received more than 3,472,526 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Dick Gregory is the 700th most popular social activist (down from 585th in 2019), the 14,291st most popular biography from United States (down from 13,178th in 2019) and the 119th most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Dick Gregory ranks 700 out of 840. Before her are Pauli Murray, Vida Goldstein, Stan Swamy, Edith Windsor, Zahra Eshraghi, and David Kato. After her are Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Grace Abbott, Joshua Wong, Rameshwari Nehru, Dorothy Height, and Latifa Ibn Ziaten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Dick Gregory ranks 564. Before her are Jackie Henderson, Tim Parnell, Edmund Wickham Lawrence, Grace Alele-Williams, Andy Bathgate, and Nancy Kassebaum. After her are Harry Sinden, Al Arbour, Larry Evans, Bob Johnston, Terry Medwin, and Dick Thornburgh. Among people deceased in 2017, Dick Gregory ranks 633. Before her are Rosemary Leach, Sergei Mylnikov, Albert Brewer, Milt Schmidt, Harvey Atkin, and Bharati Mukherjee. After her are Barbara Cook, Javier Valdez Cárdenas, Cristina Adela Foișor, Frank Spellman, Donna Williams, and Lorna Gray.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dick Gregory ranks 14,291 out of 20,380. Before her are Bruce E. Melnick (1949), Rocky Gray (1974), Eric Flaim (1967), Sarah Jones (1983), Swizz Beatz (1978), and Noah Centineo (1996). After her are David Ignatius (1950), Pete Buttigieg (1982), Brittney Griner (1990), Sandy Neilson (1956), Sunny (1989), and Lucille Bremer (1917).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Dick Gregory ranks 119. Before her are Ruthie Tompson (1910), Juliette Gordon Low (1860), Wendell Phillips (1811), Walter Reuther (1907), Pauli Murray (1910), and Edith Windsor (1929). After her are Grace Abbott (1878), Dorothy Height (1912), Bill Ayers (1944), Judith Heumann (1947), Matthew Shepard (1976), and Ronan Farrow (1987).

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