SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Edith Windsor

1929 - 2017

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Edith Windsor (née Schlain; June 20, 1929 – September 12, 2017) was an American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM. She was the lead plaintiff in the 2013 Supreme Court of the United States case United States v. Windsor, which overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and was considered a landmark legal victory for the same-sex marriage movement in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edith Windsor has received more than 597,444 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Edith Windsor is the 697th most popular social activist (down from 576th in 2019), the 14,164th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,762nd in 2019) and the 118th most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 600k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Edith Windsor ranks 697 out of 840. Before her are Wendell Phillips, Walter Reuther, Anna Sharyhina, Pauli Murray, Vida Goldstein, and Stan Swamy. After her are Zahra Eshraghi, David Kato, Dick Gregory, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Grace Abbott, and Joshua Wong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Edith Windsor ranks 550. Before her are Tommy Banks, Barbara Murray, Keith Gardner, Surinder Kaur, Jack Kelsey, and Jacqueline Hill. After her are Sylvia Cheeseman, Pallonji Mistry, Pete George, Jules Feiffer, Joi Lansing, and Thomas Eagleton. Among people deceased in 2017, Edith Windsor ranks 625. Before her are Scott Putesky, Tim Parnell, Joost van der Westhuizen, Marek Ostrowski, Shyama, and Ayan Sadakov. After her are William Steinkraus, Rosemary Leach, Sergei Mylnikov, Albert Brewer, Milt Schmidt, and Harvey Atkin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edith Windsor ranks 14,164 out of 20,380. Before her are Smith Thompson (1768), Keith Green (1953), Reggie Lewis (1965), Bonnie Franklin (1944), Kevin Weisman (1970), and Anne Waldman (1945). After her are Bill Walker (1951), Randy Blythe (1971), Sophia Lillis (2002), Stan Kirsch (1968), Olivia Thirlby (1986), and Arthur P. Bagby (1794).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Edith Windsor ranks 118. Before her are Gloria Allred (1941), Ruthie Tompson (1910), Juliette Gordon Low (1860), Wendell Phillips (1811), Walter Reuther (1907), and Pauli Murray (1910). After her are Dick Gregory (1932), Grace Abbott (1878), Dorothy Height (1912), Bill Ayers (1944), Judith Heumann (1947), and Matthew Shepard (1976).

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