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Edward Wilmot Blyden

1832 - 1912

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Edward Wilmot Blyden (3 August 1832 – 7 February 1912) was an Americo-Liberian educator, writer, diplomat, and politician who was primarily active in West Africa. Born in the Danish West Indies, he joined the waves of black immigrants from the Americas who migrated to Liberia. Blyden became a teacher for five years in the British West African colony of Sierra Leone in the early twentieth century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Wilmot Blyden has received more than 293,669 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Edward Wilmot Blyden is the 5,693rd most popular writer (down from 5,165th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from U.S. Virgin Islands and the most popular Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edward Wilmot Blyden ranks 5,693 out of 7,302. Before him are Donald Richie, John Holt, Charles Allston Collins, Willi Apel, Lualhati Bautista, and Erwin Strittmatter. After him are Earl Derr Biggers, George Mikes, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Dee Brown, Ágnes Gergely, and Abraham Cowley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Edward Wilmot Blyden ranks 89. Before him are Léon Gautier, William Thomas Blanford, Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero, Gyula Szapáry, Mary Everest Boole, and Kolos Ferenc Vaszary. After him are Edward Newton, José María Campo Serrano, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Octave Chanute, Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg, and Isaac Israel Hayes. Among people deceased in 1912, Edward Wilmot Blyden ranks 123. Before him are Richard Andree, Juan Gualberto González, Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Luis Cordero Crespo, Octavia Hill, and Harriet Quimby. After him are Edgar Evans, Henry Sweet, Sophia Jex-Blake, Emil Stang, Máximo Tajes, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

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In U.S. Virgin Islands

Among people born in U.S. Virgin Islands, Edward Wilmot Blyden ranks 7 out of 12. Before him are Camille Pissarro (1830), Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville (1818), Kelsey Grammer (1955), Emile Griffith (1938), Tim Duncan (1976), and Judah P. Benjamin (1811). After him are Jasmin St. Claire (1972), Peter Holmberg (1960), John de Jongh Jr. (1957), Raja Bell (1976), Daryl Homer (1990), and Rose Davies (null).

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Among WRITERS In U.S. Virgin Islands

Among writers born in U.S. Virgin Islands, Edward Wilmot Blyden ranks 1. 

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