1867 - 1961
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist. Balch combined an academic career at Wellesley College with a long-standing interest in social issues such as poverty, child labor, and immigration, as well as settlement work to uplift poor immigrants and reduce juvenile delinquency. She moved into the peace movement at the start of World War I in 1914, and began collaborating with Jane Addams of Chicago. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emily Greene Balch has received more than 185,289 page views. Her biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Emily Greene Balch is the 35th most popular social activist (up from 48th in 2019), the 311th most popular biography from United States (up from 544th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Social Activist.
Emily Greene Balch was an American Quaker who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for her work in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
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Among social activists, Emily Greene Balch ranks 35 out of 538. Before her are Martin Niemöller, Pheidippides, Élie Ducommun, Ferdinand Lassalle, Simon Wiesenthal, and Sadako Sasaki. After her are Simon bar Kokhba, Nicholas Winton, Sophie Scholl, Jan Palach, Emma Goldman, and Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī.
1892 - 1984
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 29
600 BC - 490 BC
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 30
1833 - 1906
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 31
1825 - 1864
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 32
1908 - 2005
HPI: 69.41
Rank: 33
1943 - 1955
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 34
1867 - 1961
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 35
50 - 135
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 36
1909 - 2015
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 37
1921 - 1943
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 38
1948 - 1969
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 39
1869 - 1940
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 40
1837 - 1897
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 41
Among people born in 1867, Emily Greene Balch ranks 7. Before her are Marie Curie, Frank Lloyd Wright, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Józef Piłsudski, Luigi Pirandello, and Arturo Toscanini. After her are Mary of Teck, John Galsworthy, Käthe Kollwitz, Emil Nolde, Maxime Weygand, and Natsume Sōseki. Among people deceased in 1961, Emily Greene Balch ranks 9. Before her are Erwin Schrödinger, Dag Hammarskjöld, Patrice Lumumba, Gary Cooper, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. After her are Jules Bordet, Zog I of Albania, Rafael Trujillo, Adnan Menderes, Frantz Fanon, and Mohammed V of Morocco.
1867 - 1934
HPI: 90.71
Rank: 1
1867 - 1959
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 2
1867 - 1951
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 3
1867 - 1935
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 4
1867 - 1936
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 5
1867 - 1957
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 6
1867 - 1961
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 7
1867 - 1953
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 8
1867 - 1933
HPI: 67.16
Rank: 9
1867 - 1945
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 10
1867 - 1956
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 11
1867 - 1965
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 12
1867 - 1916
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 13
1887 - 1961
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 3
1905 - 1961
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 4
1925 - 1961
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 5
1901 - 1961
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 6
1894 - 1961
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 7
1908 - 1961
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 8
1867 - 1961
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 9
1870 - 1961
HPI: 68.55
Rank: 10
1895 - 1961
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 11
1891 - 1961
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 12
1899 - 1961
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 13
1925 - 1961
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 14
1909 - 1961
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 15
Among people born in United States, Emily Greene Balch ranks 311 out of 18,182. Before her are Chuck Berry (1926), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947), Arthur Miller (1915), Warren G. Harding (1865), Jean Seberg (1938), and Louise Glück (1943). After her are Susan Sarandon (1946), Napoleon Hill (1883), John Stith Pemberton (1831), Philip Roth (1933), Buffalo Bill (1846), and George S. Patton (1885).
1926 - 2017
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 305
1947 - Present
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 306
1915 - 2005
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 307
1865 - 1923
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 308
1938 - 1979
HPI: 69.14
Rank: 309
1943 - 2023
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 310
1867 - 1961
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 311
1946 - Present
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 312
1883 - 1970
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 313
1831 - 1888
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 314
1933 - 2018
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 315
1846 - 1917
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 316
1885 - 1945
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 317
Among social activists born in United States, Emily Greene Balch ranks 6. Before her are Malcolm X (1925), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Helen Keller (1880), and Rosa Parks (1913). After her are Harriet Tubman (1820), Angela Davis (1944), Jane Addams (1860), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Bugsy Siegel (1906), and Susan B. Anthony (1820).
1925 - 1965
HPI: 83.94
Rank: 1
1884 - 1962
HPI: 79.77
Rank: 2
1929 - 1968
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 3
1880 - 1968
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 4
1913 - 2005
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 5
1867 - 1961
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 6
1820 - 1913
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 7
1944 - Present
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 8
1860 - 1935
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 9
1913 - 1975
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 10
1906 - 1947
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 11
1820 - 1906
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 12