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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Frances Ames

1920 - 2002

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Frances Rix Ames (; 20 April 1920 – 11 November 2002) was a South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist, best known for leading the medical ethics inquiry into the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who died from medical neglect after being tortured in police custody. When the South African Medical and Dental Council (SAMDC) declined to discipline the chief district surgeon and his assistant who treated Biko, Ames and a group of five academics and physicians raised funds and fought an eight-year legal battle against the medical establishment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frances Ames has received more than 42,663 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Frances Ames is the 411th most popular social activist (up from 453rd in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 157th in 2019) and the 4th most popular South African Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Frances Ames ranks 411 out of 538. Before her are Romas Kalanta, Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Eugene V. Debs, Otto Warmbier, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Grey Owl. After her are Abdul Sattar Edhi, Cesar Chavez, Raisa Aronova, Franca Viola, Giuseppe Impastato, and Gabriela Silang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Frances Ames ranks 268. Before her are Henry Eriksson, Bruno Ruffo, Richard N. Frye, Gordon Gould, Georges Balandier, and Ted Fujita. After her are Julian Jaynes, Alfredo II, André Simon, Olga Orozco, Raisa Aronova, and Rudolf Kárpáti. Among people deceased in 2002, Frances Ames ranks 188. Before her are Lonnie Donegan, Raymond Firth, Mario de las Casas, Ruth Williams Khama, Masakatsu Miyamoto, and Peter R. Hunt. After her are Milton Berle, Zaid ibn Shaker, Raoul Diagne, Arne Selmosson, Chaim Potok, and Tore Svensson.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Frances Ames ranks 86 out of 374. Before her are Walter Sisulu (1912), Alan Paton (1903), Gary Player (1935), Claude Chevalley (1909), Chris Hani (1942), and Max Gluckman (1911). After her are Jan de Klerk (1903), Bruce Grobbelaar (1957), Mpande kaSenzangakhona (1798), Lesley-Ann Brandt (1981), Ian Scheckter (1947), and Ingrid Jonker (1933).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In South Africa

Among social activists born in South Africa, Frances Ames ranks 4. Before her are Nelson Mandela (1918), Steve Biko (1946), and Evelyn Mase (1922). After her are Devdas Gandhi (1900), Denis Goldberg (1933), Ted Grant (1913), Beyers Naudé (1915), Bram Fischer (1908), Albertina Sisulu (1918), Kumi Naidoo (1965), and Nkosi Johnson (1989).

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