1941 - 1955
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement.Till was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emmett Till has received more than 23,486,134 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Emmett Till is the 292nd most popular social activist (down from 254th in 2019), the 3,575th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,241st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Social Activist.
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Among social activists, Emmett Till ranks 292 out of 538. Before him are Cho Man-sik, Cut Nyak Dhien, Meshadi Azizbekov, Allan Octavian Hume, Diana Budisavljević, and Dhondo Keshav Karve. After him are Abdallah ibn Yasin, Bhikaiji Cama, Kōtoku Shūsui, Ricardo Flores Magón, Túpac Katari, and Millicent Fawcett.
1883 - Present
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 286
1850 - 1908
HPI: 52.85
Rank: 287
1876 - 1918
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 288
1829 - 1912
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 289
1891 - 1978
HPI: 52.45
Rank: 290
1858 - 1962
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 291
1941 - 1955
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 292
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 293
1861 - 1936
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 294
1871 - 1911
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 295
1874 - 1922
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 296
1750 - 1781
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 297
1847 - 1929
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 298
Among people born in 1941, Emmett Till ranks 218. Before him are Carla Gravina, Boris Vallejo, Félix Rodríguez, Patricio Guzmán, Paul Kantner, and Harald Nielsen. After him are David Lewis, Robert Guéï, Leonid Kizim, George Pell, Josep Maria Fusté, and Walid Muallem. Among people deceased in 1955, Emmett Till ranks 80. Before him are Horace McCoy, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Theodor Innitzer, Lloyd Bacon, and Louis Charles Breguet. After him are Arthur Bernardes, Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia, Isaak Dunayevsky, Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark, Ahmad Qavam, and Guy Ropartz.
1941 - Present
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 212
1941 - Present
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 213
1941 - Present
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 214
1941 - Present
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 215
1941 - 2016
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 216
1941 - 2015
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 217
1941 - 1955
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 218
1941 - 2001
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 219
1941 - 2002
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 220
1941 - 2010
HPI: 52.20
Rank: 221
1941 - 2023
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 222
1941 - 2023
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 223
1941 - 2020
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 224
1897 - 1955
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 74
1885 - 1955
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 75
1871 - 1955
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 76
1875 - 1955
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 77
1889 - 1955
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 78
1880 - 1955
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 79
1941 - 1955
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 80
1875 - 1955
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 81
1887 - 1955
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 82
1900 - 1955
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 83
1904 - 1955
HPI: 51.85
Rank: 84
1876 - 1955
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 85
1864 - 1955
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 86
Among people born in United States, Emmett Till ranks 3,575 out of 18,182. Before him are Mary Tyler Moore (1936), R. Budd Dwyer (1939), Robert Ford (1862), Carla Gugino (1971), Judith Reisman (1935), and Kevin Sorbo (1958). After him are Bobby Seale (1936), Bruce Buck (1946), Evelyn McHale (1923), Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919), Larry Clark (1943), and Adam Baldwin (1962).
1936 - 2017
HPI: 52.46
Rank: 3,569
1939 - 1987
HPI: 52.45
Rank: 3,570
1862 - 1892
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 3,571
1971 - Present
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 3,572
1935 - 2021
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 3,573
1958 - Present
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 3,574
1941 - 1955
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 3,575
1936 - Present
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 3,576
1946 - Present
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 3,577
1923 - 1947
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 3,578
1919 - 1995
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 3,579
1943 - Present
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 3,580
1962 - Present
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 3,581
Among social activists born in United States, Emmett Till ranks 33. Before him are Coretta Scott King (1927), Marsha P. Johnson (1945), George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), Jesse Jackson (1941), Clara Barton (1821), and Russell Means (1939). After him are Huey P. Newton (1942), Alice Paul (1885), Lucretia Mott (1793), Amelia Bloomer (1818), Black Elk (1863), and Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899).
1927 - 2006
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 27
1945 - 1992
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 28
1918 - 1967
HPI: 54.03
Rank: 29
1941 - Present
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 30
1821 - 1912
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 31
1939 - 2012
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 32
1941 - 1955
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 33
1942 - 1989
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 34
1885 - 1977
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 35
1793 - 1880
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 36
1818 - 1894
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 37
1863 - 1950
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 38
1899 - 2016
HPI: 50.59
Rank: 39