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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Edith Windsor

1929 - 2017

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Edith "Edie" 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 573,294 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Edith Windsor is the 576th most popular social activist (down from 487th in 2019), the 12,792nd most popular biography from United States (down from 12,344th in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 570k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Edith Windsor ranks 576 out of 538. Before her are Derek Chauvin, Matthew Shepard, Anna Howard Shaw, Stan Swamy, Anthony Dod Mantle, and Tarana Burke. After her are Bobby Henderson, Kumi Naidoo, Hawa Abdi, Shin Dong-hyuk, Walter Reuther, and Loujain al-Hathloul.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Edith Windsor ranks 465. Before her are King Moody, Tom Foley, William Safire, Ronnie Barker, John Davies, and George Clayton Johnson. After her are Shirley Ann Grau, Surinder Kaur, Jack Kelsey, Elizabeth Allen, Yash Johar, and Noor Alam. Among people deceased in 2017, Edith Windsor ranks 569. Before her are Donna Williams, Francine York, Denis Voronenkov, Robert Osborne, Sergei Mylnikov, and Nat Hentoff. After her are Nelsan Ellis, Dudley Storey, Ayan Sadakov, Kirti Nidhi Bista, Reema Lagoo, and František Rajtoral.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edith Windsor ranks 12,792 out of 18,182. Before her are Chris Miller (1968), Barry Mann (1939), Connor Paolo (1990), Timothy Weah (2000), Margaret Cho (1968), and Lane Garrison (1980). After her are Christopher Abbott (1986), Lucille Bremer (1917), Raven-Symoné (1985), Ken Levine (1966), Patricia Roberts Harris (1924), and Larry Evans (1932).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Edith Windsor ranks 96. Before her are Mary McLeod Bethune (1875), Fannie Lou Hamer (1917), Dorothy Height (1912), Derek Chauvin (1976), Matthew Shepard (1976), and Tarana Burke (1973). After her are Bobby Henderson (1980), Walter Reuther (1907), Jack Thompson (1951), Juliette Gordon Low (1860), Dick Gregory (1932), and Bill Ayers (1944).

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