SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Emmeline Pankhurst

1858 - 1928

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Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women win the right to vote. In 1999, Time named her as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating that "she shaped an idea of objects for our time" and "shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emmeline Pankhurst has received more than 4,179,810 page views. Her biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Emmeline Pankhurst is the 41st most popular social activist (up from 42nd in 2019), the 277th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 306th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Social Activist.

Emmeline Pankhurst was a suffragette who fought for women's right to vote.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Emmeline Pankhurst has had the most page views in the with 386,963 views, followed by French (62,532), and German (53,507). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Korean (118.32%), Swedish (96.87%), and Macedonian (82.20%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Emmeline Pankhurst ranks 41 out of 840. Before her are Lady Godiva, Ferdinand Lassalle, Jan Palach, Sophie Scholl, Shirin Ebadi, and Simon Wiesenthal. After her are Martin Niemöller, Angela Davis, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Pheidippides, and Emma Goldman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Emmeline Pankhurst ranks 11. Before her are Theodore Roosevelt, Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Gustaf V of Sweden, Rudolf Diesel, Georg Simmel, and Omar Mukhtar. After her are Giuseppe Peano, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Christiaan Eijkman, Charles de Foucauld, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, and Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Among people deceased in 1928, Emmeline Pankhurst ranks 7. Before her are Roald Amundsen, Hendrik Lorentz, Wilhelm Wien, Leoš Janáček, Max Scheler, and Maria Feodorovna. After her are Édouard-Henri Avril, Pyotr Wrangel, Johannes Fibiger, Theodore William Richards, Zhang Zuolin, and Franz Stuck.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Emmeline Pankhurst ranks 277 out of 8,785. Before her are Frank Whittle (1907), Jane Goodall (1934), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), John Deacon (1951), Bede (672), and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792). After her are Tony Scott (1944), Roger Penrose (1931), Andrew Carnegie (1835), Thomas Andrews (1873), Henrietta of England (1644), and Timothy Dalton (1946).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Emmeline Pankhurst ranks 5. Before her are Nicholas Winton (1909), Robert Owen (1771), Guy Fawkes (1570), and Lady Godiva (990). After her are Betty Williams (1943), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Annie Besant (1847), Mairead Maguire (1944), Emily Davison (1872), Max Mosley (1940), and Sylvia Pankhurst (1882).

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