SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Eugene V. Debs

1855 - 1926

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Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. Early in his political career, Debs was a member of the Democratic Party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugene V. Debs has received more than 3,408,880 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Eugene V. Debs is the 421st most popular social activist (down from 407th in 2019), the 5,320th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,766th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Eugene V. Debs by language

Over the past year Eugene V. Debs has had the most page views in the with 442,150 views, followed by German (8,360), and Spanish (6,943). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Norwegian (Nynorsk) (85.87%), Finnish (62.90%), and Latin (54.83%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Eugene V. Debs ranks 421 out of 840. Before him are Mary Edwards Walker, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Mary Dyer, Samantha Smith, Giuseppe Pinelli, and Josephine Butler. After him are Iosif Grigulevich, Saalumarada Thimmakka, Afeni Shakur, Leonard Peltier, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Rajendra K. Pachauri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Eugene V. Debs ranks 74. Before him are Stevan Sremac, Josiah Royce, Andrew Mellon, Otto Lehmann, Eduard von Keyserling, and Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt. After him are José Malhoa, Emmanuel Drake del Castillo, Karl Madsen, Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin, Oskar von Miller, and Leo Deutsch. Among people deceased in 1926, Eugene V. Debs ranks 82. Before him are Srečko Kosovel, André Gedalge, Iraj Mirza, Joan Alcover, Edward Granville Browne, and Jenő Károly. After him are Bessie Coleman, Carl Swartz, Princess Frederica of Hanover, Giovanni Cagliero, Giovanni Amendola, and Dmitry Furmanov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene V. Debs ranks 5,320 out of 20,380. Before him are Harry Langdon (1884), Bob Kiesel (1911), Timothy Treadwell (1957), David Sanborn (1945), James Redfield (1950), and Grant Green (1935). After him are Dave Alexander (1947), Mark Blum (1950), Bobby Driscoll (1937), E. B. White (1899), Gary Chapman (1938), and Titus Welliver (1962).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Eugene V. Debs ranks 52. Before him are Bayard Rustin (1912), Catharine MacKinnon (1946), Mathew Brady (1822), Louise Bryant (1885), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), and Samantha Smith (1972). After him are Afeni Shakur (1947), Leonard Peltier (1944), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), Lester R. Brown (1934), Anna Louise Strong (1885), and Cesar Chavez (1927).

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