SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Fred Phelps

1929 - 2014

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Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. (November 13, 1929 – March 19, 2014) was an American minister and disbarred lawyer who served as the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, worked as a civil rights attorney, and ran for statewide election in Kansas. A divisive and controversial figure, he gained national attention for his homophobic views and protests near the funerals of gay people, AIDS victims, military veterans, and disaster victims who he believed were killed as a result of God punishing the U.S. for having "bankrupt values" and tolerating homosexuality. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fred Phelps has received more than 3,093,497 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Fred Phelps is the 202nd most popular social activist (down from 175th in 2019), the 1,959th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,814th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Social Activist.

Fred Phelps is most famous for being the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, an anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and anti-Catholic church that protests at funerals and other public events.

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  • 3.1M

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  • 57.98

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Fred Phelps ranks 202 out of 840. Before him are Carl Oberg, Moses Montefiore, Campaspe, Max Mosley, Jacques Vergès, and Serge Klarsfeld. After him are Lucio Urtubia, Tiradentes, Margaret Sanger, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Aliya Moldagulova, and Gretl Braun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Fred Phelps ranks 127. Before him are Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Don Murray, Filaret, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, and Whitey Bulger. After him are Robert Faurisson, Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti, Rafael Eitan, Édouard Balladur, Michael Michai Kitbunchu, and Gabriel Urgebadze. Among people deceased in 2014, Fred Phelps ranks 91. Before him are Run Run Shaw, Riz Ortolani, Mike Nichols, Milan Galić, Louis Zamperini, and Jean-Luc Dehaene. After him are Stuart Hall, Jack Bruce, Mango, Valeri Kubasov, Yitzhak Hofi, and Richard Bull.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fred Phelps ranks 1,959 out of 20,380. Before him are Mark W. Clark (1896), Dana Elcar (1927), Peggy Lee (1920), Paul Schrader (1946), Howard S. Becker (1928), and Kevin Mitnick (1963). After him are Gigi Hadid (1995), Isaac Hayes (1942), John Frederick Kensett (1816), Henry Molaison (1926), Tucker Carlson (1969), and Neilia Hunter Biden (1942).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Fred Phelps ranks 23. Before him are John Brown (1800), Frederick Douglass (1818), Sojourner Truth (1797), Billy Milligan (1955), Emmett Till (1941), and Edward Snowden (1983). After him are Margaret Sanger (1879), Gloria Steinem (1934), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), David Lane (1938), George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), and Russell Means (1939).

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